The Bastille Prisoner
[W. Clowes & Son] privately printed, [1861] n.d.
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Reading Copy
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English
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V10.04; C025.03/C025.04; DM6689
E6/F6
Library, bookcase over fireplace, item 39
Dickens Museum
Charles Dickens's reading copy of 'The Bastille Prisoner'
Publisher & date of publication: W. Clowes & Son, 1861.
Description: 8vo 45 pages, including title red half morocco gilt, in a cloth slip-case, olive green morocco gilt back.
The Bastille Prisoner. Charles Dickens bookplate. From the Library at Gad's Hill. The Comte de Suzannet book plate. A reading from 'A Tale of Two Cities' in three chapters. Privately printed. Dickens devised this reading (derived from Book One of the novel) in 1861 but it was apparently never performed. The text has, however, been carefully worked over by Dickens and there are several deletions, underlings for emphasis and manuscript additions, as well as numerous stage-directions written into the margins ("kissing hand", "knocking", "beckoning", "sigh", "moan", etc.) See Michael Slater's article, " The Bastille Prisoner: a Reading Dickens never gave, Etudes Anglaises, xxiii (1970), 190-6.
Acquisition history: Gift of La Comtesse de Suzannet, 1971.
Part of the Suzannet Collection (1971).
Publisher & date of publication: W. Clowes & Son, 1861.
Description: 8vo 45 pages, including title red half morocco gilt, in a cloth slip-case, olive green morocco gilt back.
The Bastille Prisoner. Charles Dickens bookplate. From the Library at Gad's Hill. The Comte de Suzannet book plate. A reading from 'A Tale of Two Cities' in three chapters. Privately printed. Dickens devised this reading (derived from Book One of the novel) in 1861 but it was apparently never performed. The text has, however, been carefully worked over by Dickens and there are several deletions, underlings for emphasis and manuscript additions, as well as numerous stage-directions written into the margins ("kissing hand", "knocking", "beckoning", "sigh", "moan", etc.) See Michael Slater's article, " The Bastille Prisoner: a Reading Dickens never gave, Etudes Anglaises, xxiii (1970), 190-6.
Acquisition history: Gift of La Comtesse de Suzannet, 1971.
Part of the Suzannet Collection (1971).