The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit vienna but spent all his working

but spent all his working life in France

nobody can imitate it successfully

Original green cloth with a elaborate and stylised theme of bells embossed to front and sides

sermons the distinguished historian of dress Aileen Ribeiro creates a fascinating account of Stuart dress and how it both reflected and influenced society

Original blue hard cloth lettered in white

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit vienna but spent all his workingLondon: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Early edition bound in half calf over marbled boards, black title label lettered in gilt to spine with ornamented gilt bands. Frontispiece from a drawing by Frank Stone. Half title present. Crown 8vo (185 mm); xvi, 496 pp with text aligned in double columns. Edges and corners tips slightly rubbed. Yellow binder's ticket of G. Mann, 39 Cornhill, laid down to rear pastedown. An attractive copy of this early edition of