1840/41 Master Humphrey's Clock CHARLES DICKENS First Edition ILLUSTRATED 3 in 2
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1840/41 Master Humphrey's Clock CHARLES DICKENS First Edition ILLUSTRATED 3 in 2 Master Humphrey's Clock By Charles Dickens 1840/41 First Editions Illustrated throughout by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. The Three Volumes are bound into two contemporary half calf bindings. Volume 1 - 1840 Volume 2 (books 2 and 3) - 1841 Published , London Chapman and Hall, 186 Approx 25.5 cm x 17.7cm. Illustrated throughout by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly serial that contained both short stories and two novels (The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge). Some of the short stories act as frame stories to the novels so the ordering of publication is important. Although Dickens' original artistic intent was to keep the short stories and the novels together, he himself cancelled Master Humphrey's Clock before 1848, and described in a preface to The Old Curiosity Shop that he wished the story to not be tied down to the miscellany it began within. Most later anthologies published the short stories and the novels separately. However, the short stories and the novels were published in 1840 in three bound volumes under the title Master Humphrey's Clock
- Publisher: Chapman and Hall
- Year: 1840
- Binding: Hardcover
- Condition: Fair
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