Oblong 4to (261 x 352 mm). 14 clippings from a newspaper laid in, interleaved with blank sheets, illustrated by Gustave Dore. (Some offsetting from newspaper to blank sheets). Original printed wrappers with woodcut portrait of Dickens on front, facsimile of the first page of the manuscript on back; original mailing envelope. 

 

The album was presumably produced for readers to preserve the daily parts of Dickens's story (see Gimbel E178). "From the London Daily Mail the United Features Syndicate bought publication rights for the two Americas. The Scripps-Howard Newspapers, of which The San Francisco Chronicle is one, sensed the value of the manuscript both as a great news event of the 20th century and as a literary triumph and reserved publication rights in all cities where Scripps-Howard papers are published" (lower wrapper). Not in Gimbel.

 

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