Doctor Marigold | 
I picked up this nicely illustrated Dickens short story today, "Doctor" being the MCs given name, after the physician shown on the cover delivering him by the roadside.
Marigold is a "cheap jack", a name for a pedlar I've not come across before. This is one of several stories, or "prescriptions" (3 by Dickens), featuring Marigold, written by various authors & published in the Christmas 1865 number of "All the Year Round". Mine is a 1945 edition.
dabbe Beautiful edition. ❣️ 2y
Bookwomble @dabbe Yes, it's nice 😊 Showing its age a little (but so am I! 👴🏻), and someone clipped the cover rather cackhandedly ✂️, but the paper is good quality - surprising for the war period - and is still crisp, with minimal fixing 🦊All for just £3 🪙🪙🪙 2y
dabbe @Bookwomble I bet it also smells like old-book heaven. 🤗 2y
Bookwomble @dabbe Yes it does! If I was to have a signature scent, it would include notes of second-hand bookshop on a rainy day, cat fur warmed in spring sunshine, and dark roast coffee at midnight, and I would brand it "Sourdust", after the Master of Ritual in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast books ? 2y
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