The Dickens Dictionary. A Key to the Characters and Principal Incidents in the Tales of Charles Dickens.

Revised Edition. N.d. [ca. 1890]. Octavo, xvi, 607 pp., 12 b/w plates. Half red pigskin leather over maroon morocco, lettered and decorated in gilt to spine; marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt.

Edges lightly rubbed and frayed, else an excellent copy.

A standard reference work on Dickens, first published in America in 1872. The introduction to this Daily News Memorial Edition is by Charles Dickens, Jr., who made several emendations from the American edition. "I may, perhaps, lie permitted to express a very favourable opinion of the singularly painstaking and careful manner, in which Mr. Pierce and Mr. Wheeler have carried out what has clearly been to them a labour of love." –Charles Dickens, Jr., January 1878.