J. B. Podeschi — Dickens and Dickensiana

New Haven, Yale University Library, 1980. First edition. Cloth. This handsome first edition, first impression of an essential catalogue of Dickens material including periodicals, prints, artworks, and associated items. The first edition, first impression of the work. With a frontispiece photographic reproduction of four carte-de-viste photograph portraits of Charles Dickens, circa 1867.Includes a spare spine label tipped in among the outer leaves at the rear of the work.This is a fantastic catalogue of materials related to the author Charles Dickens which were left to Yale University by Colonel Richard Gimbel. As well as offering detailed bibliographical information on the major, minor, and collected editions of Dickens' works, the final section titled 'Dickensiana' is a catalogue of miscellaneous items related to Dickens including pamphlets, prints, and mass-produced objects. In the original publisher's full cloth binding with paper spine label. Externally, very excellent barring a touch of rubbing and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities and one minor handling mark to the spine label. Internally, firmly bound with lovely, bright, clean pages. Spare spine label is excellent. Near Fine . Ill.: Frontispiece photographic reproduction of carte-de-viste photograph portraits of Charles Dickens, circa 1867. Near Fine .