Author: Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); J . Wade, photographer
Title: A Unique Album of Original Photographs of Places in Dickens' Works As Well As His House, with Manuscript Annotations. Circa 1902. First Edition
Description: London and Vancouver: Circa 1902. Album of 62 stiff card leaves mounted with 86 photographs plus postcards and ephemera. 22x26.4 cm (8¾x10½"), quarter period leather with textured cloth boards..Inside cover signed J. Wade and dated July 1902. There also an invitation for a 1912 Dickens' Ball on the hundreth birthday of Dickens at the Franklin Hall, [Vancouver Canada].. A unique photographic manuscript featuring locations from numerous Dickens stories including Bleak House, David Copperfield, Pickwick Papers, Old Curiosity Shop, Dic kens' home on Devoshire Terrace, The Great White Horse, Ipswich and "The Bull" (Pickwick), Barnaby Rudge, The seven poor Tavellers, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Maypole Tavern, Our mutual Friend, and other unidentified locales. With newspaper clippings, brochures, ephemera, and hand-written notes throughout.. Condition: Wear to leather and cloth, spine strip loose and reinforced with archival tape; gutters reinforced with tape; dent to top edge of leaves, various amounts of soiling or fading to images; overall very good..Added: Sotheby's, Charles Dickens. The Lawrence Drizen Collection. London. 24 September 2019. Sale #L19416. .

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