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Very good copy in full vellum with gilt titles. Some off-setting on endpapers. Missing ribbon closure. Signed by Reynolds and numbered 222/350 copies. 4to.

The Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of 'not quite fourteen,' who lives with her grandfather in his shop of curiosities.