The Life of Charles Dickens
Title: The Life of Charles DickensAuthor: Forster, JohnPublication: Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1874.Description: First American edition (circa 1874) of this three-volume biography of Charles Dickens. Limited edition; no. 443 of 1,000 copies. Title page in red and black. Frontispiece portraits and other black-and-white illustrations throughout. Printed by John Wilson and Son of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bound in full maroon cloth, with printed paper labels on the spine; top edge gilt. Vol. 1: [4], xviii, 398 pages; Vol. 2: [4], xx, 464 pages; Vol. 3; [9], viii-xv, [1], 552 pages; 9 x 6 inches. Binding with bumped corners and spine ends, title labels worn but legible, and hinges of vol. 1 cracked, else a Very Good copy with a clean interior.