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Sweeney Todd by James Malcolm Rymer5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() She became aware, however, of another copy for sale by an antiquarian book dealer and alerted the RBC. candidate in English and Comparative Literature, had been able to find only one institution holding that illustrated classic, the British Library in London. ![]() Originally published serially, it appeared in 1850 as an expanded one-volume edition, which is a book of excessive rarity today. The story of a London barber who kills and robs his clients, and whose accomplice turns their remains into meat pies, became an immediate bestseller. In 1846, the prolific but now-obscure Victorian writer James Malcolm Rymer introduced the notorious Sweeney Todd in the String of Pearls, or, The Barber of Fleet Street: A Domestic Romance. James Malcolm Rymer, String of Pearls (London, 1850) / PR5285 R99 S8 1850 / William A. ![]()
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