Lot 29
  • 29

Dickens, Charles

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Autograph quotation from A Christmas Carol signed ("Charles Dickens" with paraph)
  • paper, ink,
1 page (6 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.; 155 x 86 mm), Liverpool, 27 February 1844; horizontal fold not affecting inscription. Matted, framed and glazed with frontispiece of an early edition of A Christmas Carol and reproduction of a portrait of Dickens.

Condition

Condition as described in catalogue entry.
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Catalogue Note

"'And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God Bless Us Every One.' — Charles Dickens, at Liverpool, Twenty-seventh February 1844."

A Christmas Carol, one of Dickens's most enduring works, was published 19 December 1843. The first printing was sold out by Christmas Eve. Dickens was in Liverpool to give a speech at a soirée at the Liverpool Mechanics' Institute on 26 February 1844.