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The Gilbert Foyle Collection of Dickens First Editions

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Books spines

Book spines from the Foyle Collection

Introduction

This collection enables Dickens readers of today to examine his stories in their original presentation: illustrated monthly serialisations in commercial publications, with all the constraints and demands that the business of popular printing entails. Far removed from the ‘novelised’ editions we know today, classics including The Pickwick Papers (1836-37) and David Copperfield (1849–50) appear in (largely complete) 20-part serialisations interspersed with pages of advertisements for patent medicines, furniture and wigs. The collection includes some bound first editions and an edition of Dickens’s magazine, Household Words (Volume I, 1850). This latter item relates to the Morley Letters, another special collection at Sussex. The collection came to the University Library in 1988, on loan from Eastbourne Borough Council.

 

 


 






 

 

 

 

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