ix, [3], 340, 186 pp. Mint green cloth, gilt titles and elaborate gilt decorations, top edge gilt. Includes photographic frontispiece and plates from the 1899 stage play adaptation of Dickens's famous work of historical fiction. The play featured Henry Miller (not the American author, but the British actor) as Sydney Carton, and was later adapted into a 1925 British silent film. This novel traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dicken's based his historical detail on Carlyle's The French Revolution, and his own observations and investigations during his numerous visits to Paris.
