13. Jókai, (Mór) Moritz: Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War

From the Hungarian of ~. With prefatory notice by Emeric Szabad.
Edinburgh, 1854. Thomas Constable and Co. (2)+XV+305+(3)p. (The Miscellany of Foreign Literature. Vol. I.)
The original was published in 1850 titled as „Forradalmi és csataképek 1848 és 1849-ből”.
This item is an extraordinary relic of the great writer’s British reception. According to the bequest bookplate inside, it enriched the library of one of the greatest English writers, Charles Dickens. After Dickens’ death, his library was auctioned, and the pieces that went under the hammer were provided with such an ex libris.
Restored, original cloth.
Poss.: „From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870.”
 
Starting price: 300 000,-