1845 rigden martha (1 risultati)

1st edition. 2 volumes (xx, 343, [1]; . Illustrated with copies from his own sketches. Vol I with frontispiece of a facsimile mss sheet. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4" Hood a minor 19th century literary luminary and close friend of Dickens during his early career (Hood died in 1845). "I have the greates tenderness for the memory of Hood, as I had for himself." So spoke Dickens, as quoted in Shore's "CD and His Friends." VG (spines a bit sun-tanned/bookplate ["Miss Rigden"]/usual bit of light foxing). Gilt-decorated half-vellum bindings with marbled paper boards, black leather spine labels. Marbled edges. Pale yellow eps.…