Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (The Oxford Illustrated Dickens)
Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1981).
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Later printing. Illustrated in black and white by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'). Introduction by Kathleen Tillotson. Light dampstain on page edges, else very good in a near fine dust jacket.
Item #605187
ISBN: 0192545132
Charles Dickens
birth name: Charles John Huffman Dickens
born: 2/7/1812
died: 6/9/1870
nationality: Great Britain
Biography
English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature Random Dickens trivia - the first professional baseball team was the Dolly Vardens, a Philadelphia, PA all-African-American, all-female baseball team formed in 1867 (two years before the Cincinnati Red Stockings). Their name came from a character in the Dickens's novella Barnaby Rudge. The Dolly Vardens folded after a short time due to lack of support.more