The Obviousness Of Dickens With Reproductions Of A Pencil Portrait, Autographs, And Relics Of Dickens In The Collection Of Mr. Harry B. Smith

15pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 12 drawings, very minor damp-staining noted at bottom fore corners, salvaged from a damaged issue of Century Magazine, Volume LXXXIII, No. 4, February, 1912. Illustrations include a portrait of Dickens at age 26 from the pencil drawing by actress Priscilla Horton, Little Nell and the Schoolmaster from Old Curiosity Shop, a facsimile of the last page of a letter by Dickens to George Cattermole, a facsimile of one of the first letters in which Dickens mentions Pickwick, the cover of the first monthly part of Pickwick Papers showing a presentation inscription from Dickens to Mary Hogarth, facsimile verses in Dickens' handwriting in the album of Priscilla Horton who was a favorite in the role of Ariel, a sketch by George Cruikshank from 1838 of Horton as Ariel, a facsimile letter from Dickens to Mr. J. P. Harley, a page of the first proof-sheets of the first edition of Martin Chuzzlewit as originally published in monthly parts, with corrections in Dickens' hand, a group portrait on the lawn at Gad's Hill showing Wilkie Collins, Charles Collins, Miss Dickens, Miss Hogarth, Charles Dickens, Jr., Hamilton Hume, Mrs. Charles Dickens, Jr., Mrs. Charles Collins, Charles Fechter, and Charles Dickens, from a photograph taken about 1861, a facsimile of one of Dickens' last letters, and the candlestick used by Dickens. Housed in protective mylar report cover with spine sleeve.…