The EARLIEST LETTERS Of CHARLES DICKENS (Written to His Friend Henry Kolle); Edited by Harry B. Smith New York For Private Distribution Only
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press, 1910. 1st edition, 2nd issue. For Mr. Smith's private distribution. xi, [1 (blank)], 90 pp. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-7/8". Half vellum binding, with brown paper wrapped board. Square & tight, light wear & soiling. Bookplate to front paste-down. A VG+ - Nr Fine copy. Item #51737
Kolle was an early friend of Dickens, who assisted in Dickens in his wooing of Maria Beadnell. This volume of letters supplements that of the Dickens - Beadnell collection issued earlier by the Bibliophile Society, and as Henry H. Harper states in the introductory matter, "The are a number of causes which cooperate to make this series of letter of unusual interest to reads of Dickens. Noteworthy among its attrative features is the facility with which Mr. Smith has brought out the full significance of every point in it relation to the principal episode, and to a better knowledge of the character and early strugges of the author."
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