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WILSON, Angus [DICKENS, Charles] SKU: 19287 Barcode:
Stock No. 19287
Authors: Angus [DICKENS, Charles], WILSON
London: The Arcadia Press, 1971
Number 37 of 265 specially-bound copies, signed by the author on the Limitation Titlepage. Quarto (9 x 8 ins); bound by Zaehnsdorf in full crushed green levant morocco with a three-colour gilt-decorated onlay design at the of a three chimney manufactory in the middle of the upper board, and an orange morocco spine label lettered in gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Housed in the original grey cloth clamshell box, very slightly rubbed at extremities, with double black morocco labels on the backstrip. Illustrated throughout in color and b/w. A fine copy. An ideal gift for the Dickens collector. Patrick Brantlinger wrote an essay entitled 'Dickens and the Factories' which highlights the role of these edifices in his work, particularly in 'Hard Times', but also with significant mentions in 'The Old Curiosity Shop', 'Bleak House', and in 'Little Dorrit'. Which perhaps pans Gissing's criticism that Dickens did not known the north of England.
