A Child's History Of England; With a frontispiece by F.W. Topham

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854. First edition. leather_bound. Full crimson morocco, Aeg. Fine. 3 Vols. 210, 214, 321 pages. 15 x 12 cm. Dickens' intensely anti-aristocratic and anti-monarchist history of England for children. Originally serialized anonymously in Household Words between 25 January 1851 and 10 December 1853. Topham was also one of Dickens's company of actors in 1850. He also engraved landscapes for Bartlett and Allom. Bound by Brentano's. Raised bands, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, spine panels lettered in gilt with interior contents very bright and fresh. ECKEL p.128. SMITH II: 10.