Programme
By: Charles Dickens Bazaar
Publisher: The Bazaar?
Published: 1888
Place of publication: London?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Anniversaries; Bazaars (Charities)
Other titles: Programme of the Charles Dickens Bazaar in aid of the Fund for the Restoration of St. Peter's Church, Saffron Hill
Notes: Cover title: Programme of the Charles Dickens Bazaar in aid of the Fund for the Restoration of St. Peter's Church, Saffron Hill, at the Holborn Town Hall, on Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday, June 27th, 28th, & 29th, 1888. To be opened by Her Royal Highness Princess Henry of Battenberg (Princess Beatrice).

"The purpose of the Bazaar is to raise sufficient money to pay off a debt of about £400 remaining after the restoration of the interior of St. Peter's Church, Saffron Hill"--Introduction.

Contains excerpts and illustrations from Dickens's works as well as program for the bazaar.

Pages bound together at head.

Advertisement for Chapman & Hall on title page verso.

Colophon: "The Bazaar is greatly indebted to Messrs Chapman & Hall Limited, the Publishers of Charles Dickens Works, for furnishing the Plates for this Programme at a nominal cost, and for other valuable aid."

The plates are those originally used for the first editions of Dickens by Chapman and Hall and were borrowed from the publishers. There are several short extracts from Dicken's works.

"Charles Dickens Bazaar, on Wednesday June 27th, 1888"--Page 46.

Podeschi, J.B. Dickens & Dickensiana, D114

Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens, D147