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Title: Works
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
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Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall, limited
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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:Jjm.fr.% CJ-W.PnA;V-^.o >UI-U , 133, PICCADILLY POSTHUMOUS PAPEES OF THE PICKWICK CLUB BY CHARLES DICKENS IN TWO VOLUMES VOLUME I London CHAPMAN ANB HALL Limited 1881 Eonlian R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, BREAD STREET HILL.
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Ctis ©irittott OP arte Morfes of (Efjatles Htcfeens IS lieiitcateii Jp ©ractous ^etmtsistoit TO er M^H^ty €:i&e ©ueeit TO MR. SEEJEANT TALFOUED, M.P., Etc. My dear Sir, If I liad not enjoyed the happiness of your privatefriendship, I should still have dedicated this work to you, as aslight and most inadequate acknowledgment of the inestimableservices you are rendering to the literature of your country,and of the lasting benefits you will confer upon the authors ofthis and succeeding generations, by securing to them andtheir descendants a permanent interest in the copyright oftheir works. Many a fevered head and palsied hand will gather newvigour in the hour of sickness and distress from your excellentexertions; many a widowed mother and orphan child, whowould otherwise reap nothing from the fame of departed geniusbut its too frequent legacy of poverty and suffering, will bear,in their altered condition, higher testimony to the value ofyour labours than the most lavish encomiu

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