1966 Hard Times For These Times

Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Slipcase

A limited edition work, limited to fifteen hundred copies, of which this is numbered one-thousand three-hundred and eighty-one.

Signed by the illustrator to the limitation page.

In the original slipcase. Slipcase in a very good indeed condition.

'Hard Times' is Dickens' tenth novel, unusual from his others in its short length, and for not having scenes set in London. The satirical  novel is instead set in the fictitious industrial mill-town Coketown.

Dickens wrote this serialised novel hoping to boost the sales of his periodical 'Household Words', which it indeed did.

Illustrated with a frontispiece, and fourteen plates.

Collated, complete.

Dickens is one of the most popular authors of the Victorian age. His novels show the grimy side of poverty and prosperity in Victorian England, showing poor social conditions alongside repulsive characters.

Illustrated by Charles Raymond. This novel was originally published without illustrations in 1854.

With an introduction by John T. Winterich