DICKENS, CHARLES. A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree. [London: St. Luke's Hospital, 1860]. 8vo, original printed pink wrappers, faint vertical crease (impressed from the mailing envelope), light soiling; original stamped self-addressed envelope laid-in. FIRST EDITION, second issue of Dickens's account of his visit to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, first published in Household Words in 1852. It was separately printed in this form with Dickens's premission, to raise money for the institution. Laid in to this copy is the original stamped self-addressed envelope to be used for the return of contributions (the first issue was not accompanied by the envelope). Eckel pp. 188-91.

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DICKENS, CHARLES. A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree. [London: St. Luke's Hospital, 1860]. 8vo, original printed pink wrappers, faint vertical crease (impressed from the mailing envelope), light soiling; original stamped self-addressed envelope laid-in. FIRST EDITION, second issue of Dickens's account of his visit to St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, first published in Household Words in 1852. It was separately printed in this form with Dickens's premission, to raise money for the institution. Laid in to this copy is the original stamped self-addressed envelope to be used for the return of contributions (the first issue was not accompanied by the envelope). Eckel pp. 188-91.