Charles Dickens at 200

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Bradbury & Evans published the first one-volume edition of Hard Times. When serialized novels were reprinted to be bound in book form, the two-column design with rather small type size of magazines such as Household Words was replaced by longer lines, larger type, and wider margins.

Hard Times. For These Times
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854

PRESENTED BY HELEN DUNBAR HOLMES, CLASS OF 1909