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London; Paris; Berlin; New York; Montreal   Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.
7.5" by 5" [2] 6 [82]pp.
A charming and very scarce birthday book, themed, with quotes and colour illustrations, around the works of Charles Dickens.
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c.1921 (Undated, no date for this edition available, dated approximately from a copy held by the British Library) The Dickens Birthday Book

London; Paris; Berlin; New York; Montreal   Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd.
7.5" by 5" [2] 6 [82]pp.
A charming and very scarce birthday book, themed, with quotes and colour illustrations, around the works of Charles Dickens.
£90.00
: 0.5kgs / : 995W13

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Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

A charming, and very scarce title, intended as a tool to accumulate and recall the birthdays of family and friends, accompanying each listed day with a quote from a Dickens work.

Bound in original decorated pictorial boards, with striking colour illustration to the front board.

This title features a colour frontispiece, an illustrated title page, and 5 further colour plates. Collated, complete.

Blank, save for 2 neat birthday notations - January 15 and March 9.

Condition

Bound in original pictorial boards. Externally, smart. Age toning to covers. Mild rubbing to spine. Head and tail bumped. Very slight age toning to endpapers. Bookseller sticker to front paste down. Previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Two ink inscriptions to January 15 (the owner's own birthday) and to March 9.

Very Good

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