Dickens's Old Curiosity Shop, printed in Raised Letters for the use of the Blind
Boston : printed for private distribution, 1869
impl. 4to.,
half bound
3 large and thick vols.
3
English
£4.
10s.
S034.1d; V08.06; C023.10
not given
Library, shelving under bookcase left of fireplace (D4), item 17
This is in itself a great 'Curiosity'. On the title-page it is said that it is 'Presented by the Author to the Blind, and printed at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, Boston, Massachusetts, 1869.'
Although Mr. Forster in his 'Life of Dickens' gives extracts from the latter's letters respecting the Blind Institution at Lausanne, in which it is said, 'his attention was most deeply arrested,' he seems not to have been aware that the above work was in existence.
Although Mr. Forster in his 'Life of Dickens' gives extracts from the latter's letters respecting the Blind Institution at Lausanne, in which it is said, 'his attention was most deeply arrested,' he seems not to have been aware that the above work was in existence.