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£20 - £40

Watched by the Dead: A Loving Study of Dickens' Half-Told Tale - Richard Proctor 1887 First Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First edition. Includes 48 page publisher's catalogue at the back dated: December 1887. Publisher's printed pictorial paper-covered boards. Pictorial covers are dust soiled, with missing spine. Edges and corners bumped and scuffed. Book is solid with light play. Free endpapers are toned but pages generally clean and tight. A study of *The Mystery of Edwin Drood* by Charles Dickens: "Presents an excellent case for the resurrection of Drood . Proctor's study was the centre of controversy for several decades". Uncommon in the pictorial paper-covered boards (issued with earliest publisher's ads)

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Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First edition. Includes 48 page publisher's catalogue at the back dated: December 1887. Publisher's printed pictorial paper-covered boards. Pictorial covers are dust soiled, with missing spine. Edges and corners bumped and scuffed. Book is solid with light play. Free endpapers are toned but pages generally clean and tight. A study of *The Mystery of Edwin Drood* by Charles Dickens: "Presents an excellent case for the resurrection of Drood . Proctor's study was the centre of controversy for several decades". Uncommon in the pictorial paper-covered boards (issued with earliest publisher's ads) This lot is part of the collection that came from one of the oldest aristocratic families in British history.