Title:  The Brown Papers

Author: Arthur Sketchley

Publisher: "Fun" Office, London

Date Printed: 1866

Edition: Fifty-Fifth Thousand. The book was an immediate success and had a large reprint run in the same year as original publication. 

Description: Arthur Sketchley was a pen-name of the English stage entertainer and playwright, George Rose (1817-1882). The 32 Mrs Brown books, mostly published in by Routledge in small yellowback format, were based on his stage monologues in the character of the garrulous gossip Mrs Brown. 

This is the scarce first Mrs Brown book, collecting monologues originally published in the magazine "Fun". Original pictorial brown softcover. 190 pages. Publisher's adverts to covers. Worn, rubbed and creased, with some loss of paper title to spine, with internal tape residue (see pictures). Binding tender sound and square.  

This is one of the scarcer Mrs Brown titles, and is hard to find in any condition in the original binding. 

Provenance: We have recently acquired a large private collection of yellowback books. These books were published in the Victorian era and aimed to provide entertaining reading at a relatively cheap price. They have colourful chromolithographic illustrated covers. Although produced in large numbers, they were regarded as disposable at the time, and survivals can be relatively scarce.

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