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DICKENS (CHARLES) Bentley's Miscellany. Contributions: by "Boz", [including:] The Extraordinary Gazette. Speech of his Mightiness on Opening the Second Number of Bentley's Miscellany, Edited by "Boz" [and other extracts], with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, Richard Bentley, 1837-1839 image 1
DICKENS (CHARLES) Bentley's Miscellany. Contributions: by "Boz", [including:] The Extraordinary Gazette. Speech of his Mightiness on Opening the Second Number of Bentley's Miscellany, Edited by "Boz" [and other extracts], with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, Richard Bentley, 1837-1839 image 2
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DICKENS (CHARLES)
Bentley's Miscellany. Contributions: by "Boz", [including:] The Extraordinary Gazette. Speech of his Mightiness on Opening the Second Number of Bentley's Miscellany, Edited by "Boz" [and other extracts], with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY DICKENS, Richard Bentley, 1837-1839

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

Bentley's Miscellany. Contributions: by "Boz", [including:] The Extraordinary Gazette. Speech of his Mightiness on Opening the Second Number of Bentley's Miscellany, Edited by "Boz" [and other extracts], with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Charles Dickens") to C. Welsh Mason written from Gads Hill Place and dated 23 May 1867, promising to read Mason's manuscript with a view to its publication in 'All the Year Round', but suggesting that its length may "preclude the possibility of its acceptance for those pages", engraved portrait, 2 etched plates after Cruikshank, the letter pasted in between the specially printed title-page and contents leaf, red crushed morocco gilt by Tout, rebacked preserving original gilt spine (defective), original front wrapper by Cruikshank (for 1 December 1837) bound in, 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1837-1839

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A specially made up volume, including a letter from Dickens to the novelist C. Welsh Mason in his capacity as editor of All the Year Round, and a copy of The Extraordinary Gazette..., the scarce 4-page supplement to Bentley's Miscellany which contains an early plug for Oliver Twist in the 'Note of the Reporter' at the end.

The extracts contained in the volume are listed on the specially printed Contents leaf, and also include: the title-pages, prefaces and addresses to the first four volumes; Public life of Mr Trumble, Once a Mayor of Mudfog; Stray Chapters. By "Boz": The Pantomime of Life and Some Particulars Concerning a Lion; Full Report of the First [-Second] Meeting of the Mudfog Association; Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child; a printed letter by Dickens concerning copyright; and various advertisements.

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