Footprints on the Road
London : Chapman & Hall, 1864
post 8vo.,
cloth
[some reprinted from the Westminster Review, Blackwood's Magazine, Household Words, etc.]
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English
18s.
S067.6a; V14.16/V14.17; C034.11
J1
Library, shelving over bookcases facing door, shelf 7
The printed dedication runs thus: 'To Charles Dickens, these pages are inscribed with earnest Regard and grateful Admiration.' But on a separate leaf is the following Dedication in the Author's Autograph: 'To the greatest of all our English Humorists, Charles Dickens, whose delightful Genius has so often drawn from my heart (an Unit among the Million) the spontaneous Tribute of exquisite Tears and innocent Laughter, these pages are inscribed with earnest Regard and grateful Admiration.' The change is explained by this note: 'Original draft of the Dedicatory page - at the urgent request of the publishers cut down to its present simplified form. Perhaps judiciously - though my heart is in every word of the above!' To this attached friend, Dickens's last note was written, on the day of his seizure!