Dickens, The Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Institution... Speeches in behalf of the Institution, [c. 1870]

DICKENS, CHARLES
The Newsvendors' Benevolent and Provident Institution... Speeches in behalf of the Institution, by the late Mr. Charles Dickens, President. London: Wm. Clowes & Sons, [C.1870]

8vo (180 x 112mm.), later edition, integral printed wrappers, later half morocco, spine lettered in gilt, repair to upper corner of first leaf, binding worn with loss to head and foot of spine, upper hinge split, lower hinge splitting

This eight leaf pamphlet reprints reports of speeches and correspondence dated between 1849 and 1870. Podeschi notes two editions in the Gimbel collection: one printed by Buck and Wootton and another (entirely reset) printed by Wm Clowes and Sons, as here.

REFERENCE:
Gimbel D59

PROVENANCE:
William Glyde Wilkins, bookplate, his sale, The Anderson Galleries, New York, 14 February 1922, lot 331

Condition Report:
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