The Fake Books of Charles Dickens

When Charles Dickens moved into Tavistock House in 1851, he decided to fill two spaces in his new study with bookcases containing fake books, the witty titles of which he had invented. And so, on October 22nd, he wrote to a bookbinder named Thomas Robert Eeles and supplied him with the following "list of imitation book-backs" to be produced.

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February 2012

BOOKS ACQUIRED

1. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten. ISBN 0-375-70202-4. 2012.02.22
2. Living Masterpieces Of English Literature, Book 2: Classics Of The Enlightenment, Pope And Swift, Ed. Dorothy Bethurum, Randall Stewart. ISBN NA (Scott, Foresman and Co., 1954). 2012.02.22

BOOKS READ

1. Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquivel. ISBN 0-385-42017-X. 2012.02.02
2. It's Lonely In The Modern World, Molly Jane Quinn, Ill. Jenna Talbot. ISBN 978-0-8118-7928-6. 2012.02.02
3. Fatherland, Robert Harris. ISBN 0-09-926381-5. 2012.02.25