Supplement to Vacation Rambles: consisting of Recollections of a tour through France, to Italy, and homeward by Switzerland in the Vacation of 1846
London : Edward Moxon, 1854
8vo.,
Original cloth, uncut.
, Not published edition
'Presentation copy inscribed: "Charles Dickens Esq. with the kindest regards of T. N. Talfourd, 15 January 1854" on the half-title. On the half-title and title-page Talfgound has written "not published".' Text from A Catalogue of the Writings of Charles Dickens in the library of Harry Elkins Widener, by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1918
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Dickens's pleasure at receipt of this presentation copy is described at length in his letter to Talfourd of 16 Jan 1854 (Pilgrim Letters 7, 250-51&nn.): 'Receiving your book this morning as I was taking my usual seat in my own room, I could not forbear cutting the leaves immediately, and stopping every now and then to dip into it luxuriously.' The book describes a tour to European sites Dickens knew well himself, and concludes with Talfourd's account of visiting Dickens and his wife at the Villa Rosemont, Lausanne, 3-5 Oct 1846, which Dickens refers to ('I cannot help writing off this note to tell you what pleasure the last two pages have given me'). He also comments positively on the Preface, which he considers 'an example to all of us, at once of modesty, and of that genial disposition to be pleased, which is one of the finest qualities to be found in the heart of Man. If I had been in a bad humour before reading it, it would have restored me directly, As it is, it has cleared away the fog of the morning and brightened the day.' The title seems not to have been formally published, and was perhaps intended for private circulation only amongst Talfourd's friends and acquaintances.
Description: x, 266 p. ; 18 cm.
Note: Presentation copy with inscription: "Charles Dickens Esq., with the kindest regards of TN Talfourd, 15 January 1854". With Talfourd's MS note, "Not published" on title page and half title. Bookplate & booklabel of Charles Dickens. Original brown cloth.
Note: Presentation copy with inscription: "Charles Dickens Esq., with the kindest regards of TN Talfourd, 15 January 1854". With Talfourd's MS note, "Not published" on title page and half title. Bookplate & booklabel of Charles Dickens. Original brown cloth.
Not listed in any other source of Dickens's library.