Charles Dickens Imaginative Literature

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False book-backs ordered by Charles Dickens in 1851 to fill blank spaces in his study at Tavistock House:

*Five Minutes in China (3 volumes)

*Forty Winks at the Pyramids (2 volumes)

*History of the Middling Ages (6 volumes)

*Jonah’s Account of the Whale

*Captain Parry’s Virtues of Cold Tar

*Kant’s Ancient Humbugs (10 volumes)

*Bowwowdom: A Poem

*The Quarrelly Review

*The Art of Cutting the Teeth

*Drowsy’s Recollections of Nothing (3 volumes)

*Heavysides Conversations With Nobody (3volumes)

*Growler’s Gruffiology, With Appendix (4 volumes)

*Miss Biffin on Deportment

*Lady Godiva on the Horse

*Munchausen’s Modern Miracles

*On the Use of Mercury by the Ancient Poets

And Hansard’s Guide to Refreshing Sleep, “as many volumes as are required to fill up.”

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