Literary
[DICKENS
(Charles, 1812-1870, Novelist)]
Fine Large Unsigned Portrait Engraved by D.J. Pound from a Photograph by Mayall,
showing him seated nearly full length, three quarter face, his left arm on a table, wearing a large black cravat, with the letterpress account of his life to date, including his family background, the progress of his writings and their relation to real situations, and his editing of journals, with perceptive comments, 8½ x 6½ in margins 15¾ x 11¾, from the Illustrated News of the World, together 6 sides (three blank) 15¾ x 11¾, [London], no date, circa
Item Date: 1860
Background
John Jabez Edwin Paisley MAYALL (1813 -1901) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria.
neatly disbound
Stock No. 66240