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Contemp. half calf, marbled boards, spines gilt in compartments, maroon morocco labels. Early booklabels of F.J.F., Westbourne, Reading. A v.g. attractive set. Containing approximately 180 contributions by Dickens including: Hard Times, A Child's History of England, A Child's Dream of a Star, The Begging Letter Writer, The Guild of Literature & Art, A Plated Article, Gone Astray, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. A complete run in decent condition as originally issued. Household Words was five years in gestation. Once the title was decided, the editorial admonition to 'Keep Household Words Imaginative' was never forgotten. The first number appeared on Saturday 30th March, 1850, and four months later Dickens wrote that 'Household Words goes on thoroughly well. It is expensive, of course, and demands a large circulation; but it is taking a great and steady stand and I have no doubt already yields a good round profit'. The journal was the joint property of Dickens, Bradbury & Evans, W.H. Wills and John Forster. Dickens owned one half, the printers one fourth and Wills and Forster each one eighth. In the first number, Dickens announced his uplifting intentions and broad editorial policy: 'We aspire to live in the Household affections, and to be numbered among the Household thoughts, of our readers. We hope to be the comrade and friend of many thousands of people, of both sexes, and of all ages and conditions, on whose faces we may never look. We seek to bring into innumerable homes, from the stirring world around us, the knowledge of many social wonders, good and evil, that are not calculated to render any of us less ardently persevering in ourselves, less tolerant of one another, less faithful in the progress of mankind, less thankful for the privilege of living in the summer-dawn of time'. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 100273
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