Essays and Tales in Prose, [including Early and Unpublished Pieces]

Boston : Ticknor, Reed, & Fields, 1853
post 8vo., cloth
with finely engraved portrait
2
English
9s.
S024.4c; V14.16/V14.17; C032.01; F001960541
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Library, shelving over bookcases facing door, shelf 7

Presentation copy; inscribed, 'To Charles Dickens, - with the kind Regards of the Author.'
Contents: : Vol. 1. Memoir and essays on the genius of Shakspere. The death of friends. The Spanish student. A short mystery .The portrait on my uncle's snuff box. A day in Venice. The Stauntons. A chapter on portraits. The prison-breaker. The planter. Vicissitudes in a lawyers' life. The man-hunter. The two soldiers -- v. 2. The story of the back-room window. A chapter of fragments. The usher. Monsieur de Bearn. The happy day. On English tragedy. On English poetry. Four dramatic scenes.