PICTURES FROM ITALY
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
First Edition of Dickens's account of his 1844 tour of Italy. His description of the coaching trips which took him from place to place for five months is full of wonderful observations of his fellow-men... His account of a public execution in Rome is remarkable -- his emotional reaction is held firmly in control but revulsion at the whole proceeding is implicit in every line [CGEL] This copy is in the primary (fine-diaper cloth) binding; copies were also issued in ribbed cloth of the same color. This is a very good copy, with little wear but with some soil on the covers; the endpapers are old but not original. The front flyleaf bears the penciled signature of Walter E. Smith, bibliographer of Dickens. Smith II pp 44-58.
Synopsis
From the book:If the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its author's reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and with a better understanding of what they are to expect. Many books have been written upon Italy, affording many means of studying the history of that interesting country, and the innumerable associations entwined about it. I make but little reference to that stock of information; not at all regarding it as a necessary consequence of my having had recourse to the storehouse for my own benefit, that I should reproduce its easily accessible contents before the eyes of my readers.
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- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10703
- Title
- PICTURES FROM ITALY
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1846
- Keywords
- Italy; Nonfiction
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- Nonfiction;
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