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