Change for the American Notes: in Letters from London to New York. By an American Lady.

First edition of this rebuttal to Dickens's American Notes, which was published the preceding year. Although purporting to be by "an American Lady", the author was Henry Wood, a gentleman and journalist from Yorkshire. This epistolary work criticizes Dickens's exaggerated depiction of the American national character, and the proportion of his work devoted to "curiosities" rather than larger social issues. CBEL III, p. 446. Octavo. Original grey cloth, ruled and decoratively panelled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, yellow coated endpapers. Later 19th-century ink ownership inscription and shelfmark to front endpapers. Spine gently sunned, ends and corners bumped, with minor wear, rubbing to cloth, front inner hinge cracked but sound, contents clean. A very good copy.