In about 1958 my mother went to The Old Curiosity Shop in London and bought this book for me. A large 9 by 11 inch version of the sad story of The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens. The illustrations by Frank Reynolds, R. I. are priceless. I can’t find a publishing date in it or anything else about the book.
The book is one of the few things I have left from my mother and from that time. I remember reading it in a flat in Queensborough Terrace, Kensington, in my bedroom. My room used to be the old larder behind the kitchen and had no heat except for a small kerosene heater – very Dickensian. I loved the little moss garden in the gutter outside the window.
Click on the first one to enlarge and run the slide show. This is for you Derrick.
The Old Curiosity Shop The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens.
Illustrated by Frank Reynolds, R. I.Kit Dick Swiveller Quip’s Wharf Dick Swiveller adn Sophy Wackles Kit and His Mother Sampson Brass and Quilp Mressrs. Godlin and Short Little Nell The Wayfarers Mrs. Jarley Sally Brass Little Nell Flight Mr. and Mrs. Quilp Nell’s Garden Tjhe Marchioness Cribbage Tjhe Figurehead Away with Melancholy Near the Journey’s End End pieces End pieces