BIB_ID
268216
Accession number
MA 102
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Display Date
1838 or earlier.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (109 p.), bound ; 23.3 cm
Notes
Originally in loose sheets; bound for J.P. Morgan Jr. in 1915.
Formerly housed in a contemporary blue leather box with gilt lettering. A letter of attestation from Frederic Chapman dated April 8, [1880] is pasted in the front cover of the box. The volume is no longer housed in the box, but the box has been retained and is housed next to the manuscript.
Formerly housed in a contemporary blue leather box with gilt lettering. A letter of attestation from Frederic Chapman dated April 8, [1880] is pasted in the front cover of the box. The volume is no longer housed in the box, but the box has been retained and is housed next to the manuscript.
Provenance
From the personal library of Frederic Chapman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the bookseller George D. Smith, 1906.
Summary
Manuscript written on the rectos of 109 sheets numbered by Dickens and with corrections throughout.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (26.8 cm)
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