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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). American Notes for General Circulation ... second edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842.
2 volumes in one, 8o (184 x 113 mm). (Some browning and staining, mainly at margins.) Contemporary green half calf (extremities rubbed, slight knocks to spine). Provenance: Robert Shelton Mackenzie (presentation inscription; recipient's name cropped by the binder and "Mrs Mackenzie" subsequently added).
Second edition, PRESENTATION COPY, signed with full flourish, to Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1809-1880), the first paid European correspondent for any American paper (the New York Evening Star, 1834). Born in Ireland, Mackenzie published Lays of Palestine in 1828, but worked largely as an English journalist before emigrating to New York in 1852. His Life of Charles Dickens (1870), though unreliable in many details, contained information not then generally known. He may also have been the author of the "Brief Autobiography of Boz" which appeared in the Durham Advertiser (26 January, 1838), and possibly in a Liverpool paper in 1841 when he was Liverpool correspondent for the New York Union. The "Brief Autobiography" is the suspected source for two other accounts, the "Visit of 'Boz' -- Sketch of his Life" published in The Bunker-Hill Aurora (29 January 1842) and the "Life of 'Boz'" in the New England Weekly Review (12 February, 1842). In both 1838 and 1842, Dickens protested strongly to the newspaper editors about the inaccuracies (see The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, I, p.367 & III, pp.48, 61). Gimbel A66.
2 volumes in one, 8o (184 x 113 mm). (Some browning and staining, mainly at margins.) Contemporary green half calf (extremities rubbed, slight knocks to spine). Provenance: Robert Shelton Mackenzie (presentation inscription; recipient's name cropped by the binder and "Mrs Mackenzie" subsequently added).
Second edition, PRESENTATION COPY, signed with full flourish, to Robert Shelton Mackenzie (1809-1880), the first paid European correspondent for any American paper (the New York Evening Star, 1834). Born in Ireland, Mackenzie published Lays of Palestine in 1828, but worked largely as an English journalist before emigrating to New York in 1852. His Life of Charles Dickens (1870), though unreliable in many details, contained information not then generally known. He may also have been the author of the "Brief Autobiography of Boz" which appeared in the Durham Advertiser (26 January, 1838), and possibly in a Liverpool paper in 1841 when he was Liverpool correspondent for the New York Union. The "Brief Autobiography" is the suspected source for two other accounts, the "Visit of 'Boz' -- Sketch of his Life" published in The Bunker-Hill Aurora (29 January 1842) and the "Life of 'Boz'" in the New England Weekly Review (12 February, 1842). In both 1838 and 1842, Dickens protested strongly to the newspaper editors about the inaccuracies (see The Letters of Charles Dickens, Pilgrim Edition, I, p.367 & III, pp.48, 61). Gimbel A66.
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