THE CATALOGUE OF THE SUZANNET CHARLES DICKENS
COLLECTION. Edited and with an Introduction by Michael Slater. Pp. xvi+300(last blank), frontispiece portrait, title page vignette, text illustrations, index; small cr. 4to; green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper; a little light foxing; Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications/The Trustees of the Dickens House, 1975. First edition. *Loosely inserted is a 42 page booklet, Treasures from the Suzannet Collection, being an illustrated catalogue (compiled by Michael Slater, with a foreword by Leslie C. Staples), of an exhibition held at The Dickens House, London, 1 June - 12 September, 1970. Comte Alain de Suzannet, a French scholar and bibliophile, formed his Dickens collection over a period of 30 years. At his death in 1950, it was one of the two finest privately-owned collections of Dickensiana. Half the collection was sold by his widow in 1971 in a two-day sale at Sotheby's. Item #078799
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