The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs Gamp (1858) & The Duke of Wellington; His Character, His Actions and His Writings & The History of the Steam-Engine, from the Second Century Before the Christian Era to the Time of the Great Exhibition (1852)
Published by Bradbury & Evans/john Murray/John Cassell, London, 1858
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Seller: Richard Beaton, Lewes, East Sussex, United KingdomRichard Beaton
AbeBooks seller since January 3, 1999
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 75.88
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DICKENS, Charles: The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs Gamp (1858). First Edition: Bradbury & Evans, 1858. Bound (second in volume) with: MAUREL, Jules: The Duke of Wellington; His Character, His Actions and His Writings. With an Introduction by Lord Ellesmere (1853). Third Edition, Enlarged: John Murray, 1853 & WALLACE, Robert: The History of the Steam-Engine, from the Second Century Before the Christian Era to the Time of the Great Exhibition (1852). First Edition: John Cassell, 1852. Three volumes bound as one in late C19th red leather over marbled boards; raised bands and gilt lettering on spine, marbled endpapers. Leatherwork a little scuffed, boards grazed, undated inscription on verso of front free endpaper. good.Dickens's title -- a short miscellany, published for the Christmas market -- was originally issued in green paper wrappers. The three titles in this volume seem curiously unconnected with each other.
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- Title
- The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: and Mrs Gamp (1858) & The Duke of Wellington; His Character, His Actions and His Writings & The History of the Steam-Engine, from the Second Century Before the Christian Era to the Time of the Great Exhibition (1852)
- Author
- Several Authors: Charles Dickens, Jules Maurel & Robert Wallace
- Publisher
- Bradbury & Evans/john Murray/John Cassell, London
- Publication year
- 1858
- Condition
- Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
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Richard Beaton
Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since January 3, 1999
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Early C20th fiction, Sensation fiction, Early mystery/detective fiction, Yellowbacks, C19th fiction, Literary journals, Tauchnitz editionsSeller's business information
Richard Beaton
United Kingdom
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