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IS SHE HIS WIFE? or, Something Singular. A Comic Burletta in One Act by Dickens, Charles - 1877

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IS SHE HIS WIFE? or, Something Singular. A Comic Burletta in One Act by Dickens, Charles - 1877

IS SHE HIS WIFE? or, Something Singular. A Comic Burletta in One Act

by Dickens, Charles

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1877. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. Original green cloth decorated in black.

First "Collectible" Edition, being a volume in Osgood's diminutive "Vest-Pocket Series." We say first "collectible" edition of this play first performed in 1837, because the only known copy of the first edition (from which Osgood printed this edition) was destroyed in the Boston fire of 1879, and there are only five known copies (three of which are in institutions) of the wrappered second edition (London circa 1869-1871). This copy is in bright green cloth; others are in terra-cotta cloth, without priority. It is a fine, bright copy -- the only flaw being a short closed tear in the edge of the front free endpaper (the front paste-down bears the armorial bookplate of Courtenay F. Wilson [1841-1915]). Podeschi (Yale) B62; Eckel pp 159-161. Housed in a magnificent full-morocco clamshell case, lined in velvet and silk moiré, that bears the gilt monogram S&S (the binder Sangorski & Sutcliffe?).
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  • Date Published 1877
  • Keywords Drama

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IS SHE HIS WIFE?

by Dickens, Charles

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Dickens, Charles. IS SHE HIS WIFE? Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. First American edition, first state of binding with correct monogram. Original terra cotta cloth, gilt. Mild rubbing at spine ends, a couple of stray marks but a very good bright copy of this scarce "comic burletta." In 1876 James T. Fields acquired the only known copy of the original 1837 edition and used it to produce this edition; his unique copy was destroyed when his library burned in December, 1879. A British reprint, itself rarely seen, appeared in 1883. This volume was part of Osgood's 102 volume vest-pocket series, which included… Read More
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Is She His Wife

Is She His Wife: Or, Something Singular. A Comic Burletta in One Act.

by DICKENS, Charles

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Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. or, Something Singular. A Comic Burletta in One Act. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First obtainable printing. Sixteenmo. 80pp. Original brown cloth, decoratively blocked in black and blind, lettered in gilt and black. Off-white endpapers printed in red. A fine, bright copy. Housed in a custom maroon cloth slipcase, black morocco label on spine, gilt-stamped. Apparently no copy exists of the first (1837) edition of this play, Dickens' third published play (first performed 6 March 1837); this is the only published work by Dickens to which this situation applies. (The Gimbel collection has playbills for performances on 13 March and 6 April 1837.) Eckel mentions that the only known copy of this edition was at Osgood for their 1877 reprint and was subsequently destroyed in a fire there in 1879. A census in Eckel finds only three extant copies of the 1873 British reprint. Thus, the Osgood reprint of 1877 is the first obtainable printing of this… Read More
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