Adelaide Anne Procter; Charles Dickens - Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses

London, George Bell and Sons, 1882. Leather. A smartly bound copy of this collection of verses from English poet Adelaide Anne Procter. With a portrait frontispiece. A collection of verses from Adelaide Anne Procter, an English poet and philanthropist whose literary career began when she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens's periodicals, and later in feminist journals. Includes titles such as: The Angel's Story, Echoes, A False Genius, My Picture, and Judge Not. With an introduction by Charles Dickens, an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic who created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Bound in full crushed morocco. Externally, smart with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd mark to the boards. Front hinge starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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