[MAHONY, Francis.] ‘Don Jeremy Savonarola’. Facts & Figures From Italy… Addressed During the Last Two Winters to Charles Dickens, Esq. Being an Appendix to His ‘Pictures’. London: Richard Bentley, 1847. First edition, with a hand-written note by the publisher ‘Richard Bentley’ mounted to the front-free endpaper, 8vo (198 x 117mm.) 4pp. publisher’s advertisements to rear. (Toning, occasional finger-mark.) Original cloth (browned and dust-soiled, staining to lower cover, extremities bumped). Note: in the note dated November 1897 the publisher writes that ‘Facts & Figures From Italy’ was published in July 1847 and is long out of print. The author was better known as ‘Father Prout’ (Rev. F.S. Mahony). The basis of the work consisted of letters originally contributed to the Daily News. The one-page introductory notice by Charles Dickens intimated that the letters were written at his request. It was dated from Broadstairs, Yours Faithfully, Richard Bentley’. – And a further forty-one volumes related to Charles Dickens (42).