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Philadelphia: T B Peterson and Brothers, (1859). Hardcover. Very good. 415p +ads. octavo, Just starting at the spine heads, covers wearing at the corners., small name and date on front fly leaf. Part of Peterson's Uniform Duodecimo edition of the Complete Works. Slightly Cocked.scarce

A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.