Fenn (George Manville) Christmas Penny Readings:
£100
original sketches for the season
London, George Routledge & Sons, 1867.
8vo. Advertisements. Original orange cloth lettered & ruled in black.
Social realism in the Dickensian mode: urban poverty, hardship, seasonal sentiment and domestic pathos. Also contains supernatural and pseudo-supernatural elements.
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Foxing; covers worn and marked, some bubbling.
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