The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens 1934 First Edition Illustrated Leather Hardcover Book in Original Dust Jacket

The Life of Our Lord by Charles Dickens 1934 First Edition Illustrated Leather Hardcover Book in Original Dust Jacket

<Condition is Good+ as Pictured> (normal wear with markings, visible edge-wear, slightly bumped/rubbed corners, age appropriate toning to interior pages, slightly slanted cover boards, exterior spine ends slightly tattered, dust jacket is lightly soiled/faded with chips rips) size is approximately 9.5” x 7”

—The Life of Our Lord is a book about the life of Jesus of Nazareth written by English novelist Charles Dickens, for his young children, between 1846 and 1849, at about the time that he was writing David Copperfield. The Life of Our Lord was published in 1934, 64 years after Dickens's death.

Dickens wrote The Life of Our Lord exclusively for his children, to whom he read it aloud every Christmas. He strictly forbade publication of The Life during his own lifetime and begged his sister-in-law, Georgina Hogarth, to make sure that the Dickens family "would never even hand the manuscript, or a copy of it, to anyone to take out of the house." His handwritten manuscript was passed down to Georgina Hogarth after Dickens's death in 1870. On her death in 1917, it came into the possession of Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, Dickens's last surviving son. The Dickens family continued to read it at every Christmas and, at the author's request, delayed publication until the last of Dickens's children had died.

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