BIB_ID
264399
Accession number
MA 6412
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
London, England, 1844 June.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2006.
Description
1 item (7 pages) ; 22.7 x 18.7 cm
Notes
The 7 pages consist of a manuscript title page, dedication page, and 5 pages of text; a brief deleted passage also appears on the verso of p. 1 of the text (p. 3 of the full manuscript).
Dickens lists the date and place of writing on the last page of the manuscript.
Contains numerous autograph corrections.
Names pencilled onto the manuscript are presumed to be those of various compositors.
Dickens lists the date and place of writing on the last page of the manuscript.
Contains numerous autograph corrections.
Names pencilled onto the manuscript are presumed to be those of various compositors.
Provenance
Purchased from the London dealer Quaritch in October 2006.
Summary
Consists of Dickens's manuscript title page, dedication, and preface to a prose work by Overs, a London cabinet-maker to whom Dickens had provided practical and financial assistance.
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