The Old Curiosity Shop and Hard Times by Charles Dickens (Leather and Marbled Paper), c. 1890 📜🇬🇧🕰️ Harry Lambright Miller For collectors of mid-century American

For collectors of mid-century American literature

This item belongs in a curated library that documents the reading habits and aesthetic choices of the late-Victorian American home

It is explicitly a carefully abridged edition of the much larger Quarto Dictionary of Noah Webster

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The Old Curiosity Shop and Hard Times by Charles Dickens (Leather and Marbled Paper), c. 1890 📜🇬🇧🕰️ Harry Lambright Miller For collectors of mid-century AmericanThis volume is a classic example of 19th Century American trade publishing, containing two novels by the definitive Victorian author, Charles Dickens. Published by the John W. Lovell Company in New York (c. 1890), the book is bound in three quarter leather and distinctive marbled paper. It is a common volume from a compiled works set, but its significance is tied to its status as a historical artifact that provides insight into late Victorian library