DICKENS, Charles.

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Sunday Under Three Heads. First facsimile edition of the young Dickens's pseudonymous political pamphlet defending the right of the poor man to a free Sabbath, first published in 1836 in opposition to a proposed law prohibiting all work and all recreation on a Sunday.An introduction is added on the publication and rarity of the original, citing prices of £15 paid for copies. This facsimile has sometimes been extracted from the wrappers and sold to the unwary as the original. Eckel warns of this, and notes the facsimile can be distinguished by the absence of the heading "Sunday Under Three Heads" on page 35, however, the heading is present here and in a similar Gimbel copy (he calls the copy with the heading present a second impression, though the correction does not necessarily indicate that). A further facsimile was later published by Pearson of Manchester.

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