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Dickens, Autograph Letter Signed to Bradbury & Evans about Pictures from Italy, 1846

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September 24, 03:31 PM GMT

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DICKENS, CHARLES

Autograph letter signed, to his publishers Bradbury and Evans


requesting 12 copies of Pictures from Italy, 1 page, 8vo, Devonshire Terrace, 18 May 1846, in a red morocco-backed cloth folder, adhesive residue on verso where removed from an album


Dickens received in total 25 copies of Pictures from Italy, his second travel book, and the earliest recorded presentation copies were sent out on 19 May, the day after this letter.


REFERENCE:

The Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume Four 1844-46, p.547