first edition Unbound
1852 · Manchester
by DICKENS, Charles and Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton. (Wilkie Collins, John Tenniel, etc.)
Manchester: Committee of the Manchester Athenaeum, 1852. Unbound. Near Fine. Broadside printed in black and red. 10¼" x 21½". A few old roughly horizontal folds, small tear at the edge of one fold, faint offsetting on verso from an old mat, but a very nice, near fine example. A broadside program for a performance of a play by Bulwer-Lytton written in 1851, and performed to benefit the Literary Guild, a society for struggling authors. The performance of the Bulwer-Lytton play was best remembered for its cast, which included Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and fellow writers Peter Cunningham and Douglas Jerrold, *Punch* editor Mark Lemon, and artists (truncated)
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