Author: Charles Dickens
Title: The Battle of Life
Description: London, Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition. Cloth. A first edition fourth state of one of Charles Dickens' lesser known 'Christmas Books', a popular festive work illustrated throughout. The first edition, fourth state 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.Half-title is present.Collated, bound without the dedication leaf, the final leaf of text, and the publisher's adverts, text ending on page 174. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externals, generally smart. Loss to the head and tail of the spine. Minor bumping to the extremities. Light marks and rubbing to the cloth. Small tear to the tail of the rear joint. Ink mark to the front board. Hinges are strained. Internally, binding is strained in places. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean, with scattered spots and handling marks. Bound without the dedication leaf, the final leaf of text, and the publisher's adverts. Good . Ill.: Various. Good .

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