Bentley's Miscellany and Mudfog Papers Specially Bound Volume with Inserted Signed Letter

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Signed letter and envelope in Dickens' hand, "Boz's" contributions to Bentley's Miscellany, Including The Extraordinary Gazette and the Mudfog Papers. 1837-1842.This is a specially made up volume of Bentley s Miscellany. Contributions by Boz.,which includes an autograph letter signed by Dickens and the scare leaflet The Extraordinary Gazette. Speech of his Mightiness on Opening the Second Number of Bentley's Miscellany, Edited by "Boz." The letter is addressed to a Mrs Hood and dated Friday, December 1867 and reads: Dear Madam, I hope you will not think me insensible to your kind feeling towards me when I beg to decline your proferred Dedications. I am [bound?] to assure you that I cannot favorably. encourage you in the mistaken ideas that such an association of my name with any work would be a guarantee of success. [Faithfully yours,] Charles Dickens" (Mrs Hood is written on the bottom of the letter. The letter is written on stationery reading "Gads Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent." On the page before the letter, the envelope addressed to Mrs Hood, 2 Russell Terrace, Holland Road, Brixton" is pasted in.The other main area of note in this volume is The Extraordinary Gazette. This scarce 4-page supplement contains the first reference to Oliver Twist in the Note of the Reporter at the end of the text. The book opens with two blank preliminary pages, then there is the front wrapper of the January 2, 1837 issue of Bentley s Miscellany. The specially printed Contents page lists the contents as follows: A Portrait of Dickens by W.P. Frith; A Portrait of Dickens by Maclise; Autograph note of Charles Dickens; The Extraordinary Gazette. Then appears: the title-pages, prefaces and addresses to the first four volumes; Public life of Mr. Trumble, Once a Mayor of Mudfog; Stray Chapters. By "Boz": The Pantomime of Life and Some Particulars Concerning a Lion; Full Report of the First [and Second] Meeting of the Mudfog Association; Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child, a printed letter by Dickens concerning copyright; and a number of advertisements. Includes two plates by Cruikshank. Size: Octavo. N° de ref. del artículo 031270

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