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DICKENS, CHARLES (1812-1870). Carte-de-visite photograph signed twice ("Charles Dickens"), by John & Chas. Watkins, London (imprint on verso), n.d. [circa 1868]. 97 x 64 mm. (3 13/16 x 2½ in.) including mount. A rare, signed carte-de-visite showing the author standing beside a library table, with his hand on a book beside a sculpture, signed on the lower margin and again (more boldly) on the verso in blue ink.
"The brilliant chronicler of social ills, and creator of Scrooge, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, and Little Nell, he used to say that his characters appeared to him as he wrote, holding lengthy conversations among themselves. A rare pose of the author"--W.M.
"The brilliant chronicler of social ills, and creator of Scrooge, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, and Little Nell, he used to say that his characters appeared to him as he wrote, holding lengthy conversations among themselves. A rare pose of the author"--W.M.