Accession number
PML 6632.7
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870, editor.
Published
London : Published at the Office, No. 16, Wellington Street North, Strand, 1856.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Title from caption.
Text printed in two columns.
The extra Christmas number of the periodical Household words for 1856, containing a story in three parts written by Charles Dickens in collaboration with Wilkie Collins and others. Most of the first section of the story, "The wreck," was written by Dickens and the final section, entitled "The deliverence", by Wilkie Collins, with the middle section, "The beguilement of the boats", containing contributions by Percy Fitzgerald, Harriet Parr (as "Holme Lee"), Adelaide Anne Procter, and Rev. James White.
The names of the contributors are not included; cf. Thomas, Deborah A. "Contributors to the Christmas numbers of Household word and All the year round, 1850-1867" for further information on identity of the authors featured in the Christmas numbers of Household words.
"Published at the Office, No. 16, Wellington Street North, Strand. Printed by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, London."--Colophon.
Text printed in two columns.
The extra Christmas number of the periodical Household words for 1856, containing a story in three parts written by Charles Dickens in collaboration with Wilkie Collins and others. Most of the first section of the story, "The wreck," was written by Dickens and the final section, entitled "The deliverence", by Wilkie Collins, with the middle section, "The beguilement of the boats", containing contributions by Percy Fitzgerald, Harriet Parr (as "Holme Lee"), Adelaide Anne Procter, and Rev. James White.
The names of the contributors are not included; cf. Thomas, Deborah A. "Contributors to the Christmas numbers of Household word and All the year round, 1850-1867" for further information on identity of the authors featured in the Christmas numbers of Household words.
"Published at the Office, No. 16, Wellington Street North, Strand. Printed by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, London."--Colophon.
Description
36 pages ; 24 cm
Provenance
Bookplate of John Pierpont Morgan.
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