Signed by Dickens’s Granddaughters
[DICKENS, Charles.]
Children’s Stories from Dickens re-told by his Grand-Daughter Mary Angela Dickens and Others with an Introduction by Percy Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Harold Copping. Edited by Edric Vredenburg. London, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1911.
4to, pp. 148, [4 (ads)], with limitation leaf, half-title, chromolithographic frontispiece, and 11 other colour-plates; numerous line illustrations; a good copy in the original pictorial green cloth, blocked in gilt, gilt edges, board edges a little worn, some marks to front cover, rear hinge cracked, Dickens Centenary Stamp to front endpaper.
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Children’s Stories from Dickens re-told by his Grand-Daughter Mary Angela Dickens and Others with an Introduction by Percy Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Harold Copping. Edited by Edric Vredenburg.
First limited edition, numbered 224 of 500 copies, signed on the limitation leaf by five of Dickens’s granddaughters, to benefit whom the work was sold. The stories had been first published c. 1893 with different illustrations. Of this printing there was also a trade edition; the work can be found in green, brown, blue, or red cloth, or colour-printed boards.