SELECTIONS FROM HOUSEHOLD WORDS, CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DICKENS

2 volumes. Comprising numbers 180 to 196 in the first volume, and numbers 27 to 52 in the second. 8vo, in a handsome binding of three-quarter dark green morocco and marbled boards by the Rowfant bindery, the panels with elaborate tools featuring scroll work and pointille decoration, gilt lettered in two panels, t.e.g. [iv], 444; iv, 620. . The handsome bindings are in fine condition, the interiors well preserved but with some foxing to the text as is common.

Edizione: a very fine collection of the dickens selections, and a great example of the lovely work done by the rowfant bindery. household words was an english weekly magazine edited by charles dickens in the 1850s. it took its name from the line in shakespeare's henry v: "familiar in his mouth as household words."<br> "we aspire to live in the household affections, and to be numbered among the household thoughts, of our readers. we hope to be the comrade and friend of many thousands of people, of both sexes, and of all ages and conditions, on whose faces we may never look. we seek to bring to innumerable homes, from the stirring world around us, the knowledge of many social wonders, good and evil, that are not calculated to render any of us less ardently persevering in ourselves, less faithful in the progress of mankind, less thankful for the privilege of living in this summer-dawn of time." ? charles dickens