MR. NIGHTINGALE'S DIARY: A FARCE IN ONE ACT

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. 12mo. Full green crushed levant, spine gilt extra, adverts and original cloth covers bound in rear, by Riviere. Bookplate, rebacked, with the Riviere backstrip laid down, otherwise a very good copy. First U.S., and first public, edition, preceded by a rare private printing, of which Eckel traced three copies. A fourth copy, from which this edition was supposedly set up, was reported destroyed in the Boston fire of 1879. Dickens's text is a greatly altered version of a work by Mark Lemon. ECKEL, pp. 164-5 GIMBEL B215. (Inventory #: WRCLIT58762)