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Franklin Library leather edition of Charles Dickens's "Bleak House," a Limited edition, introduced by Sir Osbert Sitwell, Forty Illustrations by Phiz, one of the OXFORD LIBRARY OF CHARLES DICKENS series, published in 1984. Bound in scarlet red leather, the book has matching French moire silk end leaves, gold tooling around the moire silk end leaves, satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Charles Dickens, who lived from 1812-1870, was born near PORTSMOUTH, England but his family moved to LONDON when he was two years old. "Bleak House" was originally published as a 20-episode series. The opening scene of the novel is set in London, at Christmas time. "As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth. . .Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better' splashed to their very blinkers. Foot passengers, jostling one another's umbrellas, in a general infection of ill-temper, and losing their foot-hold at street corners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and slidng since the day broke. . ." The novel has many characters and several subplots and is told partly by Esther Summerson, and partly by an omniscient narrator. The book contains a vigorous satire on the abuses of the old court of Chancery, the delays and costs of which brought misery and ruin on its suitors. The tale centers on the fortunes of an uninteresting couplke, RICHARD CARSTONE, a futile youth, and his amiable cousin, ADA CLARA, wards of the court. The pompous old baronet, Sir Leicester Dedlock is devotedly attached to his beautiful wife, Lady Dedlock. Before her marriage, she has loved Captain Hawdow and has become the mother of a daughter, whom she believes is dead. Miss Barbary, who raises Esther tells Esther, "Your mother is your disgrace, and you were hers." After Miss Barbary dies, the Chancery lawyer Kenge takes charge of Esther 's future. He also assumes custody of two other wards, Richard Carstone and Ada Clara. When Ada goes to live with John Jarndyce, she is accompanied by Esther Summerson, a supposed orphan, and one of Dickens' saints. Ultimately, Lady Dedlock discovers that Esther is her own child. The case of Jarndyce and Jardyce was suggested by the celebrated proceedings arising from the intestacy of one William Jennings, who died in 1798, leaving property at Birmingham worth many millions. 921 pages---a RARE title. I offer combined shipping.
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