Dickens, Charles

Hard Times and Pictures From Italy [with] The Uncommercial Traveller

London: Chapman and Hall, 1868. With thirteen illustrations. The Charles Dickens edition. Half gold calf over marbled boards, all edges marbled. Octavo. 272; 172pp. 7" x 5.25" Bookplate, inked owner's names, mild foxing first and last pages, mild rubbing extremities, overall a very good copy. Item #241244

1860s REISSUE OF DICKENS

By the 1860s, Charles Dickens was arguably the most famous living writer in the English-speaking world. Through his serialized publications, public readings, and deep cultural impact Dickens's works demanded mass publication. In response to this popularity, Chapman and Hall issued the 'Charles Dickens Edition' (c. 1867-1875), a uniform collected reissue of his works that helped to standardize his canon for Victorian readers.

Offered here is the ‘Charles Dickens Edition’ volume containing Hard Times, Pictures from Italy, and The Uncommercial Traveller—a compelling grouping that spans Dickens’s industrial fiction, travel writing, and later reflective essays. Together, these works illustrate the range and maturity of his later career, from concentrated social critique to personal observation—a handsome nineteenth-century example.

Price: $75.00