DICKENS, Charles.

£2,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Master Humphrey's Clock. First edition in book form of what Gordon Ray describes as "the pinnacle of Dickensian Gothic", a particularly nice example in the original cloth.Ray goes on to note that Phiz (H. K. Browne) "is in excellent form" and that George Cattermole's "wonderful clutter of antiquarian or architectural detail is well suited to Dickens's chosen subjects". Master Humphrey was a publishing experiment on Dickens's part, unique in his canon, of issuing two novels together: The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. The publication was issued in three forms, in weekly parts, monthly parts, and the present book form copies in cloth upon completion.

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