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No text description is available for this image![70 12 73 04 Dickens (Charles) A Christmas Carol, First EDITION, title in red and blue, Stave “ One, coloured plates by John Leech, original cloth, yellow end-papers, 1843, a slightly thumbed copy—The Battle of Life, fourth issue, illustrations, original cloth, 1846 12mo. (2) Dickens (C.) Bleak House, FIRST EDITION, in the 19/20 original parts, plates by H. K. Browne, some slightly foxed, has the slip in part IX relating to an accident to one of the plates, original wrappers and advertisements, nos. 19/20 lacks the lower cover, and upper cover of same no. defective at top, six or seven back strips a little defective, in a folding cloth cover, the whole enclosed in a padded cloth case cr. 8vo. Bradbury and Evans, 1852-3 Dickens (C.) The Mystery of Edwin Drood, First EDITION, plates by 8S. L. Fildes, and a portrait, half calf, original wrappers and advertisements preserved, 1870—Swinburne (A. C.) A Song of Italy, autograph signature of the author pasted on title, original cloth, J. Camden Hotten, 1867 8vo and 12mo. (2) Dickens (C.) Pickwick Papers, 3 vol. 1902—Old Curiosity Shop, vol. I only, 1904, being vol. I-IIT and VII of the Autograph edition, edited with Annotations, Bibliography and Topography by F. G. Kitton, plates, original cloth, buckram thick 8vo. 1902-4 DoYLeE (Sir ARTHUR ConAN) A PETITION TO THE PRIME MINISTER ON BEHALF OF ROGER CASEMENT, 2 Jl. one of 12 comes privately printed wn this form, inserted are about 100 LETTERS WRITTEN BY WELL-KNOWN AUTHORS, DOCTORS, PREACHERS, ETC. FOR AND AGAINST THE PETITION, green morocco, on the upper cover m the centre an harp within a wreath, and the Irish Free State flag at corners, g.e. by Rwiere Ato. 1916 ** Among the A. L. s. are Maurice Hewlett (1 p.), Eden Phillpotts (1 p.), George Bernard Shaw, two letters (14 pp. and 2 pp.), W. B. Yeats, and several from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Dryden (J.), Mr. Spratt of Oxford [and] Mr. Edm. Waller. Three Poems upon the Death of the Late Usurper Oliver Cromwell, upper corner margin of B4 torn off, unbound, enclosed in a folding cloth case sm. 4to. William Wilson, 1659, and reprinted for R. Baldwin, 1682 Dryden (J.) Britannia Rediviva, FIRST EDITION, 9 Ul. brown levant morocco, line borders round sides, with author's initials within small rayed curcles at corners, g.e. by Rwiere (112i. by T4hn.). J. Tonson, 1588](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31650405_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)