EDMONDS, Charles: [Charles Dickens]. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin:... (SECOND EDITION - CHARLES DICKENS COPY - 1854)

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AUTHOR: EDMONDS, Charles: [Charles Dickens].

TITLE: Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin: comprising the celebrated political & satirical poems, parodies and jeux-d'esprit of the Right Hon. George Canning, the Earl of Carlisle, Marquis Wellesley, the Right Hon. J.H. Frere, W. Gifford, Esq., the Rt. Hon. W. Pitt, G. E

PUBLISHER: London: G. Willis, 1854.

DESCRIPTION: SECOND EDITION - CHARLES DICKENS COPY. 1 vol., illustrated with 6 plates (including frontispiece), inscribed on the front blank endleaf "Charles Dickens, Esq./with the Editor's respects./July 23 54.", occasional mild foxing. Bound in the publisher's blind stamped brown cloth, front hinge expertly repaired, head and foot of spine lightly rubbed, with Dickens' personal armorial bookplate (a lion couchant) and the 1870 plate from the posthumous dispersal of his Gadshill library, VERY GOOD, housed in a silk chemise and an elaborate solinder pull-off case of red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with Dickens' lion armorial tooled on the upper sleeve, VERY GOOD.