Author: Charles Dickens
Title: The Battle of Life, a Love Story
Description: London, Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition. Cloth. One of Charles Dickens' lesser known 'Christmas Books', a heart-warming love story. The fourth issue of the first edition. The first edition, fourth issue of this work, with the vignette showing an angel holding a banner with no publisher's information.Illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette title page, and in-text engravings.'The Battle of Life' is the fourth of Dickens' spirited 'Christmas Books', set in an English village that stands on the site of a historic battle.A romantic novel, this is the only Christmas book that doesn't have any supernatural or explicitly religious elements.Charles Dickens is one of the most popular authors of the Victorian age. His novels show the grimy side of poverty and prosperity in Victorian England, showing poor social conditions alongside repulsive characters.In the original publisher's cloth binding.Two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding, rebacked with the original boards and spine restored, though missing the bottom half of the original spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. A little discolouration and marking to the boards and spine. Front hinge is weak. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean with a few odd spots. Good . Ill.: Various. Good .

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