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183912615London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First complete edition. First Combined Edition in book form. First Impression. With 40 illustrations by George Cruikshank. 8vo early three-quarter crushed morocco and marbled boards the spine handsomely and ornately decorated in gilt within panels between raised bands of the spine. viii 526. A fine copy. This is the first book edition complete with the forty Cruikshank plates and the first one volume combined edition. This is also the first impression with the publisher’s address “186 Strandâ€.<br> Dickens took the pseudonym from a nickname he had given his younger brother Augustus whom he called "Moses" after a character in Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. This "being facetiously pronounced through the nose" became "Boses" which in turn was shortened to "Boz". The name remained coupled with "inimitable" until "Boz" eventually disappeared and Dickens became known as simply "The Inimitable".<br> The popularity of Dickens's writings was enhanced by the regular inclusion of detailed illustrations to highlight key scenes and characters. Chapman and Hall hardcover
183770142London: Chapman and Hall 1837. Second edition. Twelvemo. viii 80 pp. With engraved frontispiece and five engraved illustrations by Phiz. Publisher’s printed green boards front board with 'Phiz' illustration of three young ladies ads on rear pale yellow endpapers. Spine discolored and with minor loss to extremities and a sliver of the paper from the upper spine has fallen away Tasteful morocco booklabel. Overall an exceptionally clean copy in the original fragile binding which remains very tight and presentable. Wrongly attributed to Charles Dickens who in fact wrote a repost to Caswall's work entitled Sketches of Young Gentlemen in 1838 Chapman and Hall hardcover
1836ST16866sLondon: Chapman and Hall 1836. FIRST EDITION. 175 x 115 mm. 6 7/8 x 4 1/2". v 1 49 pp. <br/> Extremely pleasing red crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf covers with French fillet border raised bands spine in compartments with ornate urn-and-floral-spray centerpiece gilt titling turn-ins with gilt floral roll top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Original pictorial wrappers bound in. Title page and illustrated wrapper with three small woodcut heads three plates with guards all by H. K. Browne. Title page with Charles Dickens' name faintly written in ink beneath "Timothy Sparks" in a 19th century hand. Eckel pp. 102-03. ◆Front joint a little worn though well masked with dye separation in hinge after front flyleaf but a solid lustrous and very pretty binding; internally fine with only the most trivial imperfections.<br/> <br/> This is an attractive copy complete with original wrappers of Dickens' little political pamphlet written in opposition to a bill being considered in Parliament that called for stricter Sunday observance. Dickens felt that fresh laws for more rigorous enforcement of restrained behavior were unfair to the poor because their six-day work week left only Sundays for leisure and he pleaded in the pamphlet for the encouragement of sabbath excursions and harmless amusements. The "three heads" symbolize Sunday "As It Is As Sabbath Bills Would Make It and As It Might Be Made." Longtime Dickens collaborator H. K. Browne "Phiz" has provided three scenes imagining the day of rest in each of these situations. The handsome binding is by a 19th century English powerhouse of craftsmen the Zaehnsdorf bindery founded by Hungarian emigré Joseph Zaehnsdorf 1816-86 in 1842. Chapman and Hall unknown
1884309191London: Chapman and Hall 1884. Facsimile edition one of three printed on vellum. Woodcut portrait vignettes on half-title and title-page woodcut frontispiece and two plates with blank vellum guards by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". iv v i 49 4 blank 1 ads pp. 4to. Contemporary three-quarter red morocco. Joints repaired flaw in margin of one leaf. Facsimile edition one of three printed on vellum. Woodcut portrait vignettes on half-title and title-page woodcut frontispiece and two plates with blank vellum guards by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". iv v i 49 4 blank 1 ads pp. 4to. Facsimile edition printed on vellum according to Gimbel "one of only three copies that were printed on vellum." Plain paper copies were issued in wrappers with the text and imprint: "A Reproduction in Exact Fac-simile of the Excessively Rare Original. London: J.W. Jarvis 28 King William Street Strand 1884." As with the Gimbel vellum copy this copy is rebound and without wrappers. The Gimbel catalogue identifies copies with and without 4 leaves of front- and end-matter containing an introduction though to be by T.J. Wise and Jarvis ads and notes "another impression" with the heading "Sunday Under Three Heads" on p. 35. The present copy is without the the introduction and ads though the original Chapman and Hall ads are reproduced at the end and has the heading on p. 35.<br /> Sunday Under Three Heads published under the pseudonym Timothy Sparks was "a pamphlet directed against the Sunday Observance Billl an Evangelical measure which would have severly curtailed the Sunday amusements of the labouring and middle classes" Ackroyd p. 185. Gimbel B31 cf. 8th copy. Provenance: Lewis A. Bird bookplate Chapman and Hall unknown
1884007934London: J.W. Jarvis & Som 1884. Small pamphlet bound in gray printed wrappers. 49 pages. Dickens wrote this short piece under the pseudonym Timothy Sparks in 1836. As printed on the front cover this is a reproduction in exact fac-simile of the excessively rare original. One of two reprints printed in 1884 it has been argued that the Jarvis copy proceeds the Pearson of Manchester making this the second edition of this very scarce early Dickens title however priority is still debated. As per Eckels' the present copy does not have the chapter heading 'Sunday Under Three Heads' on page 35 and was issued with a gray outer wrapper. Collation: Printed front wrap with title/author/fac-simile statement/publisher; publisher's statement inside cover; i-ii intro dated Feb. 1st 1884 credited to T. J. Wise iii-iv fac-simile of original engraved title-page with blank verso; v-vi blank; vii-x half-title/ frontispiece/ title/ blank; xi-xiv dedication; pp. 1-49 including two engravings unpaginated; 2 blanks advert for Pickwick Paper; last 5 pages Jarvis adverts including rear cover. Old crease very mild down center of pamphlet else a fine copy. Near fine. Second Edition. Printed Wrapper. Near Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. J.W. Jarvis & Som Paperback
184973304London: George Peirce 1849. First edition. Octavo. iv 160 pp. Frontispiece and 5 full-page illustrations by George Sala vignettes in text. Contemporary full tan calf gilt. Original pictorial wrappers bound in along with a leaf from the "Pictorial Times" containing a contemporary portrait of Dickens. Covers detached. A very clean copy.A spoof Dickens's Battle of Life the tale describes the adventures of "Boz" and his secretary Mr. Phillipson. Gimbel H333. George Peirce unknown
18678076Boston: J.M. Whittemore & Co 1867. First Edition. A game consisting of 80 cards ca.2.5" x 3.75" each with text printed in black within a double-ruled border on thick orange stock. Together with the original "Directions" sheet with text printed in black on cream coated stock 3 13/16" x 5 3/16". All housed in a two-part green patterned paper-covered box with printed title label mounted to lid. Pinpoint wear and and light handling to cards two of them showing faint creases; Directions sheet reinforced neatly and professionally along the fold on verso; modest wear and toning to the box lid with a few small scuffs to the label with the base showing more pronounced wear particularly along the lower edge and joints with some faint creases and minor paper loss and some old skillful strengthening. On the whole a clean complete sound and well-preserved example. <br /> <br /> A delightful parlour game consisting of 16 "sets" of five cards each containing the name of one of Dickens's stories and four or more of the principal characters in that story. "The name of each card is printed at its top and is that by which it is invariably to be called the names of the other cards in the Set being printed below to serve as a key to the whole and the name of the Story itself being in a more prominent type." A rare piece of Dickensiana; OCLC notes 3 holdings AAS Free Library of Philadelphia Brown University with only two found in the auction record. 8076. J.M. Whittemore & Co unknown
1932P2211Limited edition #372 of 750 copies numbered by the author. Leatherette 8vo top edge gilt xvi 272 6 pp frontispiece and 28 plates. Approximately 100 entries. Leatherette 8vo top edge gilt xvi 272 6 pp frontispiece and 28 plates. A revised and enlarged edition of Eckel's 1913 work "The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values." A Bibliography".v Approximately 100 entries. A Eckel provides a great deal of bibliographic detail for identification of true first editions. According to Dickens scholar Duane DeVries: "Eckel's work still stands despite criticism of its writing style and its errors as the standard modern bibliography of Dickens's writings though one directed more toward collectors than scholars.One can easily see why the volume is both praised and criticized. On the one hand it provides far more information about the works it considers than any previous bibliography had and it covers the entire range of Dickens's works from the major novels to the smallest contribution to Household Words with information on advertisements in the monthly parts of all the serialized novels and a collation of the advertisements and information on the inside and outside of the back wrappers. On the other hand the information provided a not always full not always accurate and not always consistent from one work to the next." Accompanying the book is a 2-page handwritten note from Eckel explaining how he reached certain conclusions in the book. Plus additional bibliographic data on Dickens' first editions esp A Christmas Carol. Book #Pv2211. $575. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand history and science. Maggs Bros hardcover
193270265London: Maggs Bros. 1932. Revised and enlarged edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Large octavo. xvi 272 6 blank pages with 'Notes' printed on the top pp. Illustrated. Publisher's half blue morocco over blue cloth gilt spine lettering top edge gilt. Original blue printed dust jacket with a piece missing from the top and with the loss of some lettering. Some rubbing to spine else a very clean and attractive copy.Still an essential bibliography and much expanded from Eckel's first edition of 1913. Maggs Bros. hardcover
18376259London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition. First edition in book form first issue with title-page to Vol. I dated 1836. Two octavo volumes 8 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 206 x 130 mm. iii-vviviiviii 12-384; vi 350. Twenty-eight engraved plates by various artists including Robert Seymour and Robert William Buss. Publisher's dark green bead-grain cloth over boards covers with arabesque design stamped in blind spines lettered in gilt all edges uncut coated yellow end-papers. Covers of volume I with some damp-staining expertly rebacked with original spine laid down; covers of volume II with joints expertly repaired and end-papers renewed with matching paper. With the bookplate of Eric S. Quayle on front paste-down of volume I. Tipped in at the end is a mid-twentieth century typed booksellers description G.F. Sims of Hurst Reading England of the book. The plates and text quite clean and relatively free from the usual foxing. An excellent set of the scarce first issue from the library of the celebrated collector and bibliographer Eric Quayle. Housed in an early twentieth century olive green morocco over green cloth board slipcase with central divider. Two spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments.<br /> <br /> "The peculiar purpose of the 'Library of Fiction' is to put is readers in possession at a moderate price of a series of Original Tales and Sketches all carefully selected from among a host of candidates; and many of them written by Authors of the very loftiest pretensions in the field of imaginative composition" publisher's "Address" Volume I. Contains two early pieces by Dickens in Volume I both attributed to "Boz" and printed in the first and second series respectively of Sketches by Boz: "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" pages 1-18 with two plates engraved by Landells after Robert Seymour the first illustrator of Pickwick; and "A Little Talk About Spring and Sweeps" pages 113-119 with one plate by J. Jackson after R.W. Buss Pickwick's second illustrator. <br /> <br /> "Dickens' first article in the first number of The Library of Fiction "The Tuggses at Ramsgate" Vol. I pp. 1-18 was published on the selfsame day as the first number of the Pickwick Papers: 31 March 1836. Like Pickwick the story is set partly in and partly outside London and involves common London types: the fatuous nouveau riche Tuggses the mercenary Waterses and various impertinent and whimsical carriage drivers and land." Philip V. Allingham Victorian Web. "Dickens' other article in the Library of Fiction "A Little Talk About Spring and Sweeps" Vol. I pp. 113-119 was first published in May 1836. It sets out to depict the traditional spring celebrations in the streets that Boz remembers so well from his childhood. These festivities in the shape of spontaneous street performances and merry dances of young sweeps have by now deteriorated into a fake and shabby charade that has nothing authentic about it. Boz laments the fact that nowadays the dancers are no longer real child sweeps but actors who produce a contrived and ungainly performance. Boz's description of the celebrations now and in the past is interrupted by a lengthy digression into the biographies and careers of certain young chimney sweeps the account of whose mysterious original introduces an aura of imaginative speculation into the sketch" Dickens and the Imagined Child.<br /> <br /> Originally issued in fourteen monthly parts from April 1836-May 1837 with two additional parts issued in June and July 1837. Rare in the original cloth neither Sadleir nor Wolff had examples in the cloth.<br /> <br /> Eckel pp. 137-9. Gimbel E122. Chapman and Hall unknown
1843158901843. Browne Hablot K. "With the Publisher's Compliments" His Relatives Friends and Enemies. Comprising all his wills and his ways; with an historical record of what he did and what he didn't. Edited by Boz. With Illustrations by "Phiz." London: Chapman & Hall 1843-1844. Original light blue-green pictorial wrappers.<br/> <br/> First Edition as originally issued in 20-in-19 monthly serial parts beginning in January 1843 and ending in July 1844. With MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT Dickens reverted to the conventional method of serializing his novels with monthly parts each illustrated with two engraved plates; after NICHOLAS NICKLEBY he had experimented with the idea of a weekly serial under the umbrella-title "Master Humphrey's Clock" illustrated with woodcuts within the text -- in which format THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP and BARNABY RUDGE had been introduced to the public. This set includes of course all forty H.K. Browne "Phiz" plates -- two each in the first 18 parts then four in the final double-number; all are in quite clean condition though browned in Part XVI and with darkened margins in Parts V and XIV. The vignette title plate supplied in the final part has the curious reading "100 " not as is often claimed an issue point but simply a matter of several steels being used to print the etchings simultaneously. As is frequently the case there are several wrappers that are "supplied" from other copies: the Part XV front wrapper is a carefully-amended Part XVII from another set and three rear wrappers IX X and XIX/XX were similarly transferred -- discernible only by the content of the inside advertisements. As for ads CHUZZLEWIT is one of the more difficult "Dickens in parts" to find complete due to the plethora of inserted advertisements. This set lacks a few leaves from the preliminary "Advertiser"s and maybe a dozen other individual insets; it also includes maybe ten insets NOT called for -- reflecting how haphazard this process of inserting ads was. Included are all three Christmas Carol slips and three of the uncommon E. Moses 32-page booklets of verse. Ask for further detail. The front wrapper of the final XIX/XX part is inkstamped "With the Publisher's Compliments" -- which we have not seen before. Condition is very good XIX/XX wrapper darkened some spines carefully restored minor edge-wear. Hatton & Cleaver pp 183-212. Housed in two chemises within a worn morocco-backed slipcase. unknown
1874304428Boston Estes and Lauriat ca. 1874. 1874. First American edition. 8vo. 39 b/w illustrations including portraits and facsimiles. Bibliographical references. Full gilt stamped green morocco by the Monastery Bindery dated 1905 gilt stamped inner dentelles matching green silk endpapers t.e.g. Very good-fine. 3 volumes complete. One of the first biographies of Dickens first issued in England in 3 volumes 1872-74. Number 209 of 1000 numbered sets. Gilt stamped dedication on inner dentelles of Volume I reads: "Stanley and Katharine" / "Mother Christmas 1905." With an ALS signed "S.M." detailing the gift laid in loose. Printed by the University Press/John Wilson Cambridge. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boston, Estes and Lauriat [ca. 1874]. hardcover
1936392London: The Argonaut Press 1936. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 8vo pebbled red cloth & gilt lettering 125 pages 3. Dexter is an important expert on Dickens; this is an excellent edition of the surviving letters by "the Inimitable" to his first great love. The Argonaut Press hardcover
1839D20828London: Charles Tilt 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12 mo. Green flexible cloth with Cruikshank illustration on cover in gilt. Housed in a very attractive custom slipcase with hand-colored borders after Cruikshank and inset panel on upper and lower covers of embroidered material. Date of slipcase not known. <br/><br/> Charles Tilt hardcover
183710424Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1837. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12vo. Pp. iv 5 - 228. Three-quarter calf over marbled boards black leather title label lettered in gilt. Very Good Bartlett's Circulating Library bookplate front pastedown; calf rubbed corners showing scattered foxing. Originally issued as part of the five-volume First American edition. Carey Lea & Blanchard hardcover
1904439London: Chapman & Hall 1904. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Very Good . Photographs. 4to ~10" x 8" maroon cloth with gold lettering and gilt stamped cathedral on cover; profusely illustrated with photographs many tissue guards & engraved frontispiece of Dickens; 240 pages. An exceptional survey of sites associated with the author Charles Dickens with copious B&W photographs. This is a handsome and heavy book with a study binding and text-block with some rubbing to extremities and a 1" "clean" split to the lower gutter of the front cover. Small Ink "$2.50" on top corner of front pastedown. This outlines Dicken's Life and traces his footsteps around London and England as well as sites that appear in his novls. Chapman & Hall hardcover
192970204Boston: Bibliophile Society 1929. First edition. One of 425 copies. Octavo. 177 1 pp. Publisher's full light brown calf with double gilt fillet borders smooth spine lettered in gilt and with gilt Bibliophile insignia top edge gilt. Inner slipcase present. Very small ding to head of spine negligible else a lovely copy.From the library of Noel Charles Peyrouton with his bookplate. Peyrouton was the editor of Dickens' Letters. Bibliophile Society unknown
1837141491837. Together with Other Tales by Distinguished Writers. Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1837. Original light grey-green boards with red cloth spine and printed label.<br/> <br/> First American Edition being a volume in the "Library of Fiction" limited to 1000 copies issued in January 1837. The volume consists of the title tale by Dickens followed by nine other tales by other writers. This is the only one of "Boz"'s tales that having appeared in a British periodical did not then appear in one of the two book series of SKETCHES BY BOZ see Smith I p. 15 note 2. Instead it appeared in the British "Library of Fiction" in April 1836 and was not included in SKETCHES BY BOZ until that title was issued in monthly parts Nov 1837 through June 1839. In America Carey Lea & Blanchard published SKETCHES BY BOZ second series a month or two after this -- not including "Tuggs's" -- and then combined "Tuggs's" into a reprint of that volume in June of the same year. This is a good-plus copy general soil and edge-wear notably to the rear joint label rubbed but still legible half of rear free endpaper missing. This is acceptable condition for a book that is so scarce in its original binding -- as these 1830s Philadelphia volumes were bound up using extremely delicate cheap materials. Podeschi Yale B1; Wilkins p. 11 reference to the "Select Library of Fiction". Housed in a clamshell case with leather label. unknown
188631431Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company at the Riverside Press 1886. One volume expanded to two. A UNIQUE COPY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED AND WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTERS. With the eleven engraved original portraits featuring handwriting facsimiles and OVER ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY extra engraved portraits and views from various sources AND WITH SEVEN ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT NOTES OR LETTERS BOUND IN. Crown 8vo in very fine and luxurious full chocolate crushed morocco by the Monastery Hill Bindery the covers with double-frames composed of 5 gilt ruled lines the four corners with large gilt tooled decorations in a vine leaves and berries motif the spines with six double-gilt framed compartments separated by gilt-ruled raised bands four tooled with gilt leaves in the corners two compartments lettered in gilt additional gilt rule at the heads and tails of the spine gilt stippled board edges the turn-ins with wide gilt panels gilt decorated in a geometric motif surrounding a all-over green morocco inlay with geometric frame featuring elaborate gilt floral corners fine dark-green silk end-leaves top edges gilt. The bindings protected by felt-backed cloth covered chemises and encased in matching felt lined morocco backed slipcases with raised bands and lettering in gilt in two of the compartments. 250; 2 253-419 pp. A beautiful set in very fine condition the slipcases only with some trivial rubbing. A UNIQUE AND EXQUISITE COPY WITH OVER A HUNDRED EXTRA-ILLUSTRATIONS AND FINE MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL INCLUDED. The author's literary portraits of his friends is here greatly enhanced with the seven bound in notes and letters. There is a four page signed and dated letter by the author James T. Fields a one page note on printed stationery dated and signed by Dickens' longtime friend and biographer John Forster; a two page literary letter on blue paper dated and initialed by Charles Dickens in 1856; a clipped dated signature by English writer Mary Russell Mitford; a three page letter in the hand of Miss M. R. Mitford; a one page signed and dated note by English Poet Bryan Waller Procter; and a signed manuscript note by poet author and activist Walter Savage Landor.<br> James T. Fields was a prolific American writer and contemporary and friend of the Transcendentalists and other important New England authors as well. Here he gives us literary biographies and commentaries on Thackeray Hawthorne Dickens Wordsworth Miss Mitford and Bryan Proctor who wrote under the pseudonym of 'Barry Cornwall'. There is within these pages much commentary on other writers and famous persons such as Alexander Pope Shakespeare and others. Added to all of this in the way of extra-illustrations are portraits of noted individuals ranging from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Abraham Lincoln Charles Dickens Nathaniel Hawthorne and contemporaries and subjects of the writers from Andrew Jackson to Napoleon Bonaparte. Houghton, Mifflin and Company at the Riverside Press hardcover
198023550Yale Univ. Library 1980 1980. Hardcover. Used-Like New. Cloth no d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else bright clean copy. Yale Univ. Library, 1980 hardcover
192831443New York and London: Edgar H. Wells & CO. and Charles J. Sawyer LTD. 1928. First Edition LIMITED to only 440 hand-numbered copies of which only 400 were for sale SIGNED by both John Eckel and A. Edward Newton. With seven illustrations in black and white. 8vo publisher’s original green cloth printed in black on the upper cover in a facsimile of the design of the original wrappers from the parts issue of “Pickwickâ€. xiii 91. A very good copy of this limited edition the text-block is near as pristine and is in fine order the decorated cloth binding with a bit of toning to the spine panel and along the edges minimal wear or evidence of use sturdy and strong with the hinges tight and strong. FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE LIMITED CENSUS WRITTEN BY ONE OF THE FOREMOST AUTHORITIES ON THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS. Eckel is the author on the standard bibliography used by collectors and scholars throughout the world. For anyone interested in the history of Dickens’ “Parts issues†or THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB this work is a must.<br> Limited to only 400 copies for sale of a total run of 440 signed by both the author and A. Edward Newton of “Oak Knoll†who wrote the fascinating introduction. Edgar H. Wells & CO. [and] Charles J. Sawyer, LTD. hardcover
18835000690Sydney: Thomas H. Feilding 1883. Cloth sides of the binding scuffed and marked otherwise fine with the text and plates clean and crisp. Quarto etched additional title-page and 21 etched plates plate 7 present in two forms as noted in the Preface; publisher's half roan. <p><p>First edition and quite rare: the first purely artistic suite of etchings produced in Australia. Excellent impressions well inked on thick paper they have a real charm and vitalilty.</p> <p>Coveny an illustrator and painter of literary subjects was the first to produce a series of etchings or engravings outside the natural history and topographical genres. This suite of plates shows a mastery of the form and is not only a good example of the art of etching but also a key work in the development of printing arts in colonial Australia. The book was printed by John Sands who coincidentally had worked in England on the illustration of Dickens's novels.</p> <p>A self-taught printmaker Twenty Scenes published when he was 36 years old would prove to be Coveny's chief work. The year that it was published he travelled to England hoping to establish himself there as a graphic artist but suffered a mental breakdown from which he never fully recovered.</p> </p> . Thomas H. Feilding unknown
18711602Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1871. New and enlarged edition. Original Green Cloth. Good. 12 mo 5 X 7 1/2 pp. iv 152 illustrated with frontis portrait and 10 engraved plates. Field's impressions of Dickens while on the platform giving his readings. The readings described are: A Christmas Carol Nicholas Nickleby Dr Marigold Dombery and Son The Trial from Pickwick David Copperfield Boots at the Holly Tree Inn Bob Sawyer's Party and others. Uncommon title. James R. Osgood and Company hardcover
191342234London: James Nisblet & Co. Ltd. 1913. Tall thick 8vo. xiv 320 pp. Photogravure portrait frntsp. numerous plates colour plates facsimile letter from Dickens. Blue cloth gilt lettrng embssd gilt lozenge bust on frnt cvr mnr dustsoilng shlfwr slght foxng on endpapers still a VG copy. First trade edition of this nicely illustrated biography of the famed artist for many of Dickens’ classic novels -- with extensive notes about their collaboration -- Hablot Knight Browne by his son. James Nisblet & Co., Ltd., hardcover
188762939London: W.H. Allen & Co. 13 Waterloo Place 1887. 8vo. viii 166 2 pp. Woodcut-engraved illustrated title. Gray-lavender coloured publisher’s cloth decorative gilt lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine blue clay-sized endpapers very minor shelfwear slightly cocked very slight rubbing to corners still a VG bright copy First edition of this fascinating suggested sequel to Dicken’s unfinished “Edwin Drood†featuring Proctor’s suggestion in solving the mystery. He posits that Datchery is supposed to be Drood himself who is saved from Jasper’s murderous plot and avenges himself on the villain. Proctor 1837-1888 published this book the year before his death at 51 and is perhaps best remembered for his popular writings on astronomy including his titles on Saturn and Mars. W.H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place, hardcover
