Chapman and Hall 1840-1841. First edition, three-volume set, super octavo, half morocco bound with marbled heavy card boards, gilt tooling & gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, v + 306pp (vol 1), vi + 306pp (vol 2), 426pp (vol 3), all vols illus, VG (heavy rubbing to boards & board edges, bruising & fraying to board corners, inscription in ink to feps, front gutters cracked, tanning & foxing, inconsistent wear to some page edges, several pages loose in each volume)

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Master Humphrey's Clock was an ambitious weekly literary magazine published by Dickens himself. Lasting only from 1840 to 1841, it spun off some major works, including "The Old Curiosity Shop" and this collection of stories and sketches. The narrator is Master Humphrey , not "churlish" and not a "misanthrope", who describes his daily life and his encounters with vivid characters including Mr. Pickwick. The clock is his old companion, where he stores manuscripts.

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Bookseller's Inventory #: 135959
Title: Master Humphrey's Clock
Author: DICKENS, CHARLES
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Chapman and Hall 1840-1841
Keywords: first edition Charles Dickens English literature fiction George Cattermole Hoblot Browne

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