COLLINS, Wilkie.

£250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

No Name. First one-volume American edition, the most extensively illustrated to date. Collins "had already shown the early instalments to Dickens who was enthusiastic about the general tone and momentum of the narrative that he had read with interest and admiration" (Ackroyd, p. 127).It was previously published in America earlier the same year in two volumes with fewer illustrations, and in Britain the year prior without illustrations.

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