Author: Charles Dickens
Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Description: London, Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, c1930. Leather. A smartly bound illustrated edition of Dickens' popular historical novel A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. A historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. Following the story of the French Doctor Manette, his imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. Written by Charles John Huffam 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. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, a British artist and illustrator best known by his pen name, Phiz. Dated from the ink inscription to the front endpaper. Bound in full morocco. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine and board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light age toning to the endpapers. A contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Near Fine . Ill.: Phiz. Near Fine .
Keywords: Tale Two Cities Browne Two Dickens Phiz
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Title: A Tale of Two Cities
Description: London, Humphrey Milford: Oxford University Press, c1930. Leather. A smartly bound illustrated edition of Dickens' popular historical novel A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. A historical novel set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. Following the story of the French Doctor Manette, his imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie whom he had never met. Written by Charles John Huffam 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. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, a British artist and illustrator best known by his pen name, Phiz. Dated from the ink inscription to the front endpaper. Bound in full morocco. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine and board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light age toning to the endpapers. A contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Near Fine . Ill.: Phiz. Near Fine .
Keywords: Tale Two Cities Browne Two Dickens Phiz
Price: GBP 30.00 = appr. US$ 42.84 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 953T14
- Book number: 953T14
See more books from our catalog: English Literature Pre 1900