Dickens stamps released to mark centenary
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Charles Dickens has had the ultimate
seal of approval - his work on a set of stamps!
The celebrated author, born exactly
200 years ago today, is being celebrated by Royal Mail in a set of
10 stamps to be released on June 19.
But these two stamps have been
released as a sneak preview of the set today.
The two stamps feature illustrations
from his first novel, The Pickwick Papers (originally serialised
and entitled The Posthumous Papers of Pickwick), and his 1838
novel, Nicholas Nickleby.
The
character of Mr Pickwick forms a set of six stamps featuring
original illustrations adapted from Character Sketches from Charles
Dickens, by Joseph Clayton Clarke (otherwise known as Kyd) and
originally published around 1890.
The Nicholas Nickleby stamp will be
part of a special Miniature Sheet of four stamps of illustrations
by Hablot Knight Brown, (known as Phiz ), who illustrated 10
books by the author.
Philip Parker, of Royal Mail
Stamps, said: "Charles Dickens was one of the truly great
British novelists, a man born into poor circumstances who went on
to change the world in which he lived thanks not just to his
novels, but his campaigning journalism and philanthropy".
The full set of 10 new stamps will be
issued in June and will feature iconic characters from some of his
most famous novels, including Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and A
Tale of Two Cities.
The KM Group's Dickens: A Love
Affair with Kent supplement is free in all KM Group paid-for
newspapers this week. It will also be available from Linda
Evans levans@thekmgroup.co.uk
Monday, February 06 2012
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