The first edition of the mystery of Edwin Drood as Dickens designed it : being the text of the first edition carefully compared with the original manuscript and the printers' proofs preserved in the Forster Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, showing the alterations made by Dickens

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The first edition of the mystery of Edwin Drood as Dickens designed it : being the text of the first edition carefully compared with the original manuscript and the printers' proofs preserved in the Forster Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, showing the alterations made by Dickens himself, and by Forster / edited and annotated by John Y. Watt : typescript, [ca. 1933]

Includes a newspaper clipping (Feb. 1933) mentioning Watt presenting his "about to be published" work to the Dickens Fellowship.

1 v. (393 leaves) : ill. ; 27 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7803144

Houghton Library

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