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First editions, Victorian periodicals and literary bibliography from the working library of Dr Jeremy Parrott: Dickens scholar, Beckett bibliographer, and the discoverer of the annotated set of All the Year Round.
Every description written in hand by Dr Parrott, with the edition points spelled out.
Condition on the standard antiquarian scale, defects named rather than glossed.
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Every collectionBuddhism and the East
Early translations, travel, and orientalist scholarshipDickens and his circle
First editions, parts issues, and the contributors to his magazinesFrench and German literature
Continental first editions, from Fischer to GallimardPhotography
Nineteenth century process books and photographically illustrated worksSamuel Beckett
First editions, translations, and the critical literatureBooks by the bookseller
About Dr ParrottDr Jeremy Parrott is an independent Dickens scholar and Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham. In 2015 he identified the only known annotated set of All the Year Round, naming more than three hundred contributors who had published in Dickens's magazine anonymously.
He is also a bibliographer of the lifetime editions of Dickens and a scholar of naming in the work of Samuel Beckett. His own titles are sold here alongside the collection.
His publicationsFrom the study
All the talksFifty and more talks on Dickens, his collaborators, and the trade that produced these books.
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An anonymous piece in a periodical, an unsigned manuscript, a disputed hand. We test it against a corpus of a thousand named authors and follow the paper trail.
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