DICKENS, Charles. The Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller; consisting of original tales, essays, and sketches of character. FIRST EDITION, 1st issue. 2 vols. Chapman & Hall. 1836-37
Half title vol. I only, plates by Robert Seymour, Buss, &c. Orig. dark blue diaper cloth, boards blocked in blind, spines lettered in gilt within triple-border frame; small repairs to spines & hinges. Bookplates of Walter Thomas Wallace.
¶With the vol. I titlepage dated 1836. All-published of this short-lived periodical. Both Dickens's contributions are in the first volume, which is the first issue with titlepage Vol. I dated 1836. The Tuggs's at Ramsgate by 'Boz' is the first tale, p.1; A Little Talk about Spring and the Sweeps, p.113. Other contributors include the Banim Brothers, Miss Mitford, G.P.R. James, Edward Mayhew, the Countess of Blessington, Douglas Jerrold, W.H. Wills (later to be Dickens's assistant editor), James Ollier, &c.
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