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183799840London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition in book form of Dickens' first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands marbled endpapers with the first state Veller title page with 43 engraved plates by Seymour and Browne and five Buss plates which Dickens requested to be removed in subsequent printings. In very good condition. Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass the lover Tupman the sportsman Winkle and above all by that quintessentially English Quixote Mr Pickwick and his cockney Sancho Panza Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election via the Fleet debtors prison characters and incidents sprang to life from Dickenss pen to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
291365Philadelphia. hardcover. very good. 40 volumes bound in 20. Illustrations with lettered tissue guards.Thick 8vo 3/4 burgundy morocco over marbled boards ornately gilt spines top edges gilt tops some spines neatly repaired. Philadelphia: John D. Morris & Co. n.d. ca. 1900. A handsome set. Very good .<br/><br/> Number 478 of 1000 copies.<br/><br/> unknown books
04683London: Chapman and Hall 1836. First Edition First Issue Set of The Library of Fiction <br/>With Two Sketches by "Boz" and Plates by Seymour and Buss <br/><br/>DICKENS Charles contributor. The Library of Fiction or Family Story-Teller; Consisting of Original Tales Essays and Sketches of Character. With Fourteen Illustrations. Vol. I. II. London: Chapman and Hall 1836-1837. <br/><br/>First edition in book form first issue with title-page to Vol. I dated 1836. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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/>"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.<br/><br/>"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/>Rare in the original cloth neither Sadleir nor Wolff had examples in the cloth.<br/><br/>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/>"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. <br/><br/>Originally issued in fourteen monthly parts from April 1836-May 1837 with two additional parts issued in June and July 1837. <br/><br/>Eckel pp. 137-9. Gimbel E122. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836 unknown books
1844WRCLIT64147London: Edward Moxon 1844. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Binding rather rubbed and edgeworn otherwise a good copy with Charles Dickens' lion bookplate and the Gadshill label at the front and with the bookplate of John Gribbel at the back. Old bookseller's description tipped in front. The second edition in which Procter took the opportunity "to strike out about forty of the poems of inferior quality contained in the old volume and to introduce in their stead nearly seventy Poems in rhyme besides a considerable quantity of Dramatic verse" - "Preface to the Present Edition" dated "April 13th 1844." A presentation copy inscribed on the title-page: "Charles Dickens / with the best Regards of / The Author." In THE DICKENS CIRCLE New York 1919 p. 169 J.W.T. Ley states: "We may take it as quite certain that Dickens came to know Procter through Forster. And from the first the novelist and the poet were on the best of terms. It was natural. Procter was a peculiarly lovable man with a peculiar gentleness 'childlike without being childish and an unfailing buoyancy of spirit.' Such a man could not but have a strong attraction for Dickens. From the beginning he loved the company of his friend who in the 'forties was one of the innermost circle with Forster and Maclise and Ainsworth. Procter was one of the little company at the Greenwich dinner in 1842 and until he grew too old he was twenty-five years older than Dickens they had frequent social meetings. For HOUSEHOLD WORDS and ALL THE YEAR ROUND he wrote a great deal and Dickens valued his contributions very highly indeed . . . As Procter grew old Dickens saw less and less of him but the friendship remained as deep as ever and in 1854 it was peculiarly sweetened by the discovery that the 'Miss Mary Berwick' who had contributed verses to HOUSEHOLD WORDS which had won Dickens's unstinted praise was really his old friend's daughter Adelaide whom he had known from her childhood." Edward Moxon hardcover books
1838140937708London: Richard Bentley 1838. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first issue with Boz listed as the author on all title pages and with the Fireside plate as the final plate in Volume III. Bound in early three-quarter leather over marbled paper all edges marbled. Spines darkened with cracking and repairs evident on the third volume hinges rubbed. Pages toned plates are browned and foxed. A lovely set. Richard Bentley unknown books
09142London December 1855-June 1857: Bradbury and Evans. First Edition. Original Wraps. H. K. Browne. First edition in the original parts; 20 parts in 19. Bound in the original blue/green printed wrappers - ALL wrappers are correct and ALL the ads called for by Hatton & Cleaver are present. First issue of the text "Rigaud" for "Blandois" in part XV. Text in part XIX/XX is partly UNOPENED. Plates are very good to fine; plates in parts IV and VIII with light off-setting from the dark plate; plates in parts V XIII XV XVI and XVIII are lightly tanned at edges not affecting illustrations; plates in part XIX/XX are uniformly age-toned but still very good. Tissue guards are in place. Several spines are expertly renewed; light soiling to a few wrappers. Bookseller ticket removed from front wrap of part I; neat owner initials on front wrap of part XIV. Internally clean and bright. An outstanding set with everything including a pedigree - it is from the famed Hatton & Cleaver collection. Armorial bookplate. Housed in a quarter-leather slipcase with chemise. Provenance: The Hatton and Cleaver collection The Heritage Bookshop Charles Parkhurst Books Inc. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 307-330. <br/><br/> Bradbury and Evans paperback books
03754London: Bradbury & Evans 1848. Time Consoler of Affliction and Softener of Anger"<br/>Scarce in the 'Primary' Cloth Binding<br/><br/>DICKENS Charles. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury & Evans 1848. <br/><br/>First edition first issue with the 'eight-line errata' following all but a very few of the points in Smith in book form of Dickens' seventh novel bound from the original monthly parts with stab-holes present in the inner margins of gatherings. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in; 222 x 138 mm. xvi 1 errata 1 blank 624 pp. Engraved frontispiece titlepage and thirty-eight plates after Hablot K. Browne "Phiz" including the 'dark' plate "On the Dark Road" facing p. 547.<br/><br/>Some of the plates with light foxing mainly marginal otherwise a very clean and partially uncut example.<br/><br/>Publisher's 'primary' binding of moderate olive-green fine-diaper grain cloth; the front and back covers entirely stamped in blind with a three-line border which encloses a rectangular frame that occupies the length of the covers. The frame contains an ornament of leaves and stems in each corner and a chain-like design that runs along its inner edge; each segment of the chain encloses a four-headed flower and is bordered by a nipple. The spine is lettered in gilt and stamped in blind with a thick band at its top and bottom and four rectangular panels. Original pale orange-yellow coated endpapers. With nearly all of the 'internal flaws' mentioned by Smith uncorrected. Front joint head and tail of spine and inner hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired spine slightly faded. An excellent example far better than is usually seen of this now hard to find Dickens novel in the original cloth. <br/><br/>"Dombey and Son originally appeared in twenty numbers bound in nineteen monthly parts the last forming a double number from October 1846 - April 1848. It was published in book form on April 12 1848. at 21s.<br/><br/>Dombey and Son contains the first published example of a so-called dark plate which was created by a machine process that tinted the etched plate and heightened its black-and-white contrast. The one dark plate in Dombey and Son is "On the Dark Road" p. 547. The smooth blending of light and shadow on this illustration vividly contrasts it with the other illustrations in the novel and is a fine example of the dark plate process." Smith.<br/><br/>Smith I:8. Sadleir 687. Wolff 1798. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848 unknown books
18362127.2London: Chapman & Hall 1836. 1st edition Eckel pp 102-103. Original printed wrappers. Chemised and housed in a full green morocco pull-off slipcase. Accompanied by a bound copy of the 1884 Jarvis facsimile. VG some soiling & wear. Over quite a respectable copy of this delicate emphemeral piece. Slipcase - spine sunned to tan otherwise VG. 49 3 blank pp. Trimmed edges. 4 plates. 12mo. <br/><br/>Early in his career while busily at work on PICKWICK Dickens found time to write this political tract under this Sparks pseudonym in support of the working man's freedom on the Sabbath which was being threatened by Parlimentary action. This role of working man's champion was to continue throughout his life. <br /> <br />The first edition of this work in original wrappers is rather uncommon. Chapman & Hall unknown books
1844100523Leipzig: J. J. Weber 1844. First German-language edition translated by E. A. Moriarty. Frontispiece and 7 etched plates by John Leech uniform half-title for Weber's collected edition of Dickens's works in German. In 8s 6 x 4 1/4 in.; 152 x 110 mm. Publisher's cloth-backed green marbled boards gray endpapers marbled edges; extremities rather rubbed. Leech John. First German-language edition translated by E. A. Moriarty. Frontispiece and 7 etched plates by John Leech uniform half-title for Weber's collected edition of Dickens's works in German. In 8s 6 x 4 1/4 in.; 152 x 110 mm. First German Edition of A Christmas Carol. The first German editions of Dickens' first two Christmas books. Not in the Gimbel collection and rare on the market. All of John Leech's illustrations for the original English edition including the four wood-engraved text vignettes are rendered as etched plates for this edition. Gimbel/Podeschi D4 for later collected German ed. but see note for this ed. J. J. Weber unknown books
1848406385London: Bradbury & Evans 1848. Spine a bit sunned some light wear at the corners and ends of spine slightly cocked in binding but cloth generally fresh and bright. Internally some occasional foxing but overall clean pp. 234-36 roughly opened with loss to margin not affecting text bright and crisp. Contemporary Hungarian ownership inscription on front free endpaper. 8vo 21 x 13.6 cm. xvi 2 624 pages. Half-title 8-line errata leaf. Engraved frontispiece title and 38 plates including the first example of a 'dark plate' and the first use of horizontal plates by Hablot K. Browne with tissue guards preserved. Bound from the parts with stab-holes visible at gutter in contemporary cloth: bluish-green cloth the covers with wide gilt panel smooth spine gilt-decorated and -titled pale yellow endpapers all edges gilt. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM IN AN APPARENTLY BESPOKE CONTEMPORARY CLOTH BINDING. The present binding is not mentioned by Smith: the two variants he describes are both decorated in blind not with the richly-gilt panels found on the present copy. With the following issue points: frontispiece with hook on Captain Cuttle's left arm "bird's-eye" not hyphenated on p. 61 p. xv with no page number for frontispiece and vignette and with all of the errors detailed by Smith as earliest issue except for those on pp. 220 336 and 431. Eckel pp. 71-76; Grolier Dickens 155; Podeschi/Gimbel A103; Sadlier I: 687; Smith 8. In entirely original unsophisticated condition. <br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
1859241492London or New York 1859. A mixed set some with London imprints. Volumes I-IV & XIII Office 16 Wellington Street and some with New York Dix and Edwards Vols. VI & VII New York: McElbrath and Barker Vol. VIII etc. 20 vols. 8vo. Original green blind-stamped pebbled cloth. One volume slightly split rest very fresh. Bookplate of St. Paul's School ex dono plate of Mr. Francis F. Randolph small unobtrusive blind stamp on title pages. A mixed set some with London imprints. Volumes I-IV & XIII Office 16 Wellington Street and some with New York Dix and Edwards Vols. VI & VII New York: McElbrath and Barker Vol. VIII etc. 20 vols. 8vo. Household Words was considerably more popular in England than America and its publishing history in America is "almost absolutely dark as is the whole subject of periodical printing and 'arrangements' . The 1850's were years of copyright agitation in America and certainly no legally protective arrangements were possible to the English publishers before the journal was discontinued in 1859. And it is not surprising that the course of Household Words was not so brilliant in American as was that of its successor All the Year Round . It was partially a local work and not quite so interesting to an America as to an English reader; it had changed publishers too often; there was no legitimate arrangement between the English proprietors and the American publishers; it was sold at too high a price; it had been published by inexperienced people and therefore had not received proper publicity and promotion; and its lack of pictorial illustration made it unpopular with the masses" Buckler William E. "'Household Words' in America" in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America vol. 45 pp. 160-66.<br/><br/>Household Words was published every Wednesday from March 1850 to May 1859. unknown books
1855101362London: Bradbury and Evans 1855-1857. First edition first printing in the original monthly parts of one of Dickens' most outstanding works which sold almost as many copies as the best-selling Bleak House. Octavo original publisher's illustrated blue-green wrappers 20 numbered serials in 19 parts with 38 plates by Hablot Knight Brown "Phiz". First issue of part 16 with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" and correction slip in part 16. With the original advertisements present with the exception of the advertisement inside the front wrapper of part 1 for "Edmistons' Pocket Siphonia" instead of "Edmistons' Crimean Outfit"; the slip for "Theatre Royal" at back of part 1; the slip for "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" at front of part 13; Dr. De Jongh's ad at back of part 14; and George Philip & Son ad at back of part 16. In near fine condition with period ownership inscriptions to the front wrappers of several parts and bookplate of Robert and Donna Jackson to the chemise slipcase. Housed in a custom morocco and chemise case. A very nice example. In Little Dorrit Dickens mounts his single most ferocious onslaught against England and English society; against its government against its financiers against its artists and even against its ordinary citizens who at least in Bleeding Heart Yard believed that .foreigners were always immoral. that foreigners had no independent spirit." Ackroyd 758. Perhaps unsurprisingly many reviewers reviled the book upon its publication. Dickens' friend Hans Christian Andersen advised the author to ignore the critics: "They are forgotten in a week and your book stands and lives" Ackroyd 780. And indeed Little Dorrit does: not only a commercial success in its day poor press notwithstanding but also esteemed now as a "wonderfully rich novel-- rich in ideas rich in characterization rich in incident and written in a richly imaginative prose. Many modern critics regard it as Dickens' masterpiece" Watts 108. The story first appeared as a serial in 1855 and was published in book form in 1857. Bradbury and Evans unknown books
1865102897London: Chapman and Hall 1865. First edition of Dickens' final completed novel in the rare original cloth. Octavo two volumes original cloth. Illustrated by Marcus Stone with forty plates. In near fine condition name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example. "Our Mutual Friend originally appeared in twenty numbers bound in nineteen monthly parts the last part forming a double number from May 1864- November 1865. The first volume was published in book form on January 20 1865; the second on October 21 1865. 11s. each." Smith Dickens 15. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1836291699London: Macrone 1836. hardcover. fine. Cruikshank. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. 8vo full dark green morocco gilt spines gilt tops by Zaehnsdorf. London: Macrone 1836-1837.<br/><br/> Second edition of the first two volumes with an additional preface dated August 1836. The Second series complete in one volume dated 1837 on the title page & 1836 on the pictorial title is a first edition with pages 25 32 & 62 mis-numbered. Nice set of Dickens' first published work.<br/><br/> Macrone unknown books
18501508046Bradbury & Evans 1850. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good first edition with most first issue points. Rebound. Some water damage to first few pages before main title page. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
310413London: Chapman and Hall. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons nd. Gadshill edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Three quarters brown morocco and grey boards t.e.g. Very Good. Gadshill edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Chapman and Hall. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
18722041London: Thomas McLean Haymarket 1872. Housed in a period wooden frame. Nr Fine condition in a contemporary frame showing little wear. Engraving: 20" x 15". Frame: 33" x 27" <br/><br/>Firth a long-time friend of Dickens who Dickens commissioned in 1842 to paint a portrait of Kate Nickleby. This portrait of Dickens Frith completed in 1859 shows the author at his desk in Tavistock House at work on A Tale of Two Cities. Here the image engraved by T. Oldham Barlow and published by Thomas McLean in Haymarket. A handsome piece destined to grace a fireplace mantle. Thomas McLean, Haymarket unknown books
185921836London: Chapman and Hall 1859. First Edition. First issue with p. 213 misnumbered 113. Octavo 22cm.; recent three-quarter maroon morocco over marbled boards gilt spine in six compartments new marbled endpapers; viii2254pp; added engraved title page and frontispiece 14 leaves of plates. Some minor soiling to textblock and a couple plates else Very Good or better. GIMBEL A143. Attractive copy of one of Dickens's best-known novels set in London and Paris against the historical backdrop of the French Revolution. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1850146291850. This is a complete set Dickens's annual "Extra Christmas Numbers" -- all nine of HOUSEHOLD WORDS followed by all nine of ALL THE YEAR ROUND. London: Dec. 1850 - Dec. 1858 and Dec. 1859 - Dec. 1867. Original self-wrappers first 13 numbers and original blue printed wrappers last five numbers -- as issued. First Editions of all eighteen pieces. Dickens was the editor or "conductor" of both of these periodicals -- one rising out of the ashes of the other -- but he also wrote at least part of the Christmas story in each of these eighteen numbers. The stories in HOUSEHOLD WORDS are: 1850 "A Christmas Tree" is by CD 1851 "What Christmas is as we Grow Older" is by CD 1852 A ROUND OF STORIES "The Poor Relation's Story" and "The Child's Story" are by CD 1853 ANOTHER ROUND OF STORIES "The Schoolboy's Story" and "Nobody's Story" are by CD 1854 THE SEVEN POOR TRAVELLERS "The First Poor Traveller" and "The Road" are by CD 1855 THE HOLLY-TREE INN "The Guest" "The Boots" and "The Bill" are by CD; the rest is by Wilkie Collins 1856 THE WRECK OF THE GOLDEN MARY most of "The Wreck" plus the hymn on p. 21 are by CD; the rest is by Wilkie Collins 1857 THE PERILS OF CERTAIN ENGLISH PRISONERS chapters I and III are by CD; chapter II is by Wilkie Collins 1858 A HOUSE TO LET "Going into Society" is by CD The stories in ALL THE YEAR ROUND are: 1859 THE HAUNTED HOUSE "The Mortals in the House" "The Ghost in Master B's Room" and "The Ghost in the Corner Room" are by CD -- as well as all but one of the other opening paragraphs 1860 A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA chapters I II and V plus passages in other chapters are by CD; the rest is by Wilkie Collins 1861 TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND chapters I VI and VII are by CD 1862 SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE the first second part of the third seventh and tenth chapters are by CD 1863 MRS. LIRRIPER'S LODGINGS chapters I and VII are by CD 1864 MRS. LIRRIPER'S LEGACY chapters I and VII are by CD 1865 DOCTOR MARIGOLD'S PRESCRIPTIONS chapters I VI and VIII are by CD 1866 MUGBY JUNCTION the first four chapters are by CD -- as indicated on the front cover 1867 NO THOROUGHFARE the Overture Act III and parts of Acts I and IV are by CD; the rest is by Wilkie Collins listed as co-author All eighteen numbers are in very good-plus or near-fine condition with only very minor edge-wear and soil though the 1851 issue has a couple of closed tears on the front wrapper and an ink-mark on the rear. Five of the numbers HhW 1854 through 1858 still have unopened leaves; a few appear that they might once have been bound up though not trimmed or anything. They are housed in a modern cloth case with inner chemise. Though the last five numbers the ones in blue wrappers are not uncommon the others have become rather scarce; it is now quite unusual to encounter a complete collection of all eighteen. Eckel pp 193-197 "In good state they a complete set are hard to find" -- this in 1932!. unknown books
1855144511855. Two pages 1st and 3rd of conjoined leaves on stationery with a faint blind-stamp at the upper corner. "Tavistock House Wednesday Tenth January 1855."<br/><br/> The text of Dickens's letter following "Dear Sir" is: I hope the opportunity you deserve will present itself naturally before very long. I cannot make an express appointment just now as I am quite uncertain whether I may be called out of town tomorrow or next day with Charles or on the business of placing him in some house of commerce. Besides which I have the Christmas holidays being over a fortnight's arrear of appointments to clear off. Your letter required no apology and is very agreeably done. Faithfully yours signed Charles Dickens. Francesco Berger 1834-1933 born in London of Italian and German parentage as a teen in 1848 traveled to Trieste his father's home city returning to England in 1855. He was trained as a pianist and composer and would go on to be a professor at the Royal Academy of Music and the 27-year Secretary of the Philharmonic Society. But look at the year he returned to England: 1855! -- the year of this letter January 10th. Although Berger would become a great friend of Charles Dickens and a frequent visitor at Tavistock House we believe that this letter might be Dickens's first to him with its formal "Dear Sir". Upon arriving in England Berger probably sent out "feelers" for musical commissions and this letter appears to be Dickens's polite declination. But this declination appears to have been temporary: look at what happened later in 1855 according to Berger's 1913 REMINISCENCES IMPRESSIONS & ANECDOTES: Everybody knows that Dickens was a fine Actor and that at one time he very nearly "took to the stage" as a vocation. He had "private theatricals" each Christmas-time in which he himself his family and intimate friends acted. In this circle he was spoken of as "the Manager" and his eldest son was known as "young Charles." In 1855 Wilkie Collins wrote a Play for one of these occasions called "The Lighthouse" and Dickens asked me to compose for it an original Overture and arrange the Incidental Music which I gladly undertook to do. For these performances Dickens had a theatre specially constructed in the rear of his house with proper footlights proper scenery proper curtain -- in fact no expense or trouble was spared to make the whole thing complete. I had a small but efficient Orchestra to conduct and presided at a Piano. The scenery was painted by Clarkson Stanfield R.A. The actors were Dickens Wilkie Collins Mark Lemon Augustus Egg Edward Hogarth Miss Hogarth and Mamie Dickens Dickens' elder daughter. There is indeed a famous photograph of about 25 members of the cast and crew either of "The Lighthouse" or of the next Dickens-Collins-Berger collaboration "The Frozen Deep" in 1857 showing all of the above-mentioned people including Berger but also including "young Charles" and his sister Kate who was married to Collins's brother -- with the elder Dickens lounging in the foreground. The letter is in fine condition blue ink slightly faded as is often the case. Provenance: from the renowned three-generation Dodge Family Autograph Collection. unknown books
18510145821 Devonshire Terrace London 1851. Hand-written letter measuring 4 1/2" x 7". Two horizontal folds to accommodate envelope for mailing. " 1 Devonshire Terrace Eighteenth January 1857. Dear Sir I have been visiting in the country or I should have answered your note sooner. I assure you that I feel under many obligations now and have to thank you for much kindness. I shall be glad to do so in person whenever you find such for time. Give me the opportunity. Faithfully yours Charles Dickens. addressee's name. Signed with Dickens' flourishing paraph. The letter and accompanying portrait were removed from an old frame and restored by a paper conservator.Mold was found on the reverse of the portrait with area of stain at foot of letter. Both were restored to their original conditions and left unframed in conservation papers. The work sheet of the conservator is included. Our research suggests that Dickens was visiting Gad's Hill in Kent when he said he had gone to the country as it was being renovated then retured to Devonshire Terrace for a short time before returning to Gad's Hill . He was also travelling extensively in Europe during this time. He used Gad's Hill as his country house until his death in 1870. I Devonshire Terrace was demolished in 1858-1859. A very nice example of a Dickens letter conserved and ready for framing. Letter of authentification is also included. unknown books
1839109263London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First edition of one of Dickens' most popular novels. Octavo bound in full morocco by Morrell ornate inlay to the spine front and rear panels raised bands inner dentelles illustrated with 40 plates. In fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional presentation. In 1867 Charles Dickens began his second American reading tour at Boston's Tremont Temple where an enthusiastic audience delighted in some of his most notable works members of the audience included legendary literary stars such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Although Dickens was in declining health he embarked on an ambitious travel schedule across the United States. Dickens returned to Boston once more before concluding his U.S. tour in New York City. When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston on November 19 1867 the celebrated English author spent several days at the Parker House hotel recuperating from the voyage. As conscientious a performer as he was a writer Dickens had prepared diligently for his performances redrafting and memorizing key passages from his books especially for these engagements. He used a book only as a prop; he was so familiar with the material that he could improvise with ease. However during his 1867-1868 tour he was plagued with Flu-like symptoms insomnia and an inflammation of his foot which forced him to walk with a cane. During his last tours in 1868 Dickens confined much of his performances to the New England area. Dickens was grateful for the income he desperately needed from his readings which generated $140000 close to $2000000 today; but he longed for home. On April 8 1868 Dickens gave the last performance of the tour. Prolonged applause followed the reading. He closed by telling the audience "In this brief life of ours it is sad to do almost anything for the last time. Ladies and gentlemen I beg most earnestly most gratefully and most affectionately to bid you each and all farewell." He died two years later having written 14 novels several of which are considered classics of English literature. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1837121789London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition in book form of Dickens' first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo bound in three full quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands all edges gilt marbled endpapers with 43 engraved plates by Seymour and Browne. In very good condition. Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass the lover Tupman the sportsman Winkle and above all by that quintessentially English Quixote Mr Pickwick and his cockney Sancho Panza Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election via the Fleet debtors prison characters and incidents sprang to life from Dickenss pen to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention. Chapman and Hall unknown books
4802CHARLES DICKENS 1812-1870. Dickens a beloved English writer is best remembered for A Tale Of Two Cities Oliver Twist David Copperfield Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. ALS. 1pg. 5†x 8â€. October 13 1865. London. An autograph letter signed “Charles Dickens†to Edward Eastwick a British diplomat who wrote to Dickens. Dickens wrote on the colorful letterhead of “Office of All the Year Round†Dickens' weekly publication: “I wish to give each of your papers a separate name so that each may seem for the time being complete. Will you let me know what title you would prefer for your first chapter and will you let me have some more manuscript to send to the printer It is unnecessary to remark perhaps that when you collect your papers you can either use these separate headings as titles of chapters or abolish them altogether.â€. The original mailing envelope in Dickens’s handwriting is included. The letter is in fine condition except for two light stains and a bit of ink offset. unknown books
184619908London: Bradbury and Evans 1846-48 1846. First edition parts issue. Hatton & Cleaver pages 227-250. This set agrees with H&C's description except that in part 11 there is no ad for Letts & Son and the ad for Kaye's Pills in part 12 varies slightly from the one they described. Two of the three misprints noted by H&C are present: part 11 page 324 "Capitan" for "Captain"; part 14 page 426 "if" is not present; on page 431 the page number is present in H&C's earliest issue the number is omitted. Plates foxed - as seems inevitable - some minor paper repairs to the corners of a few spines; a few wrappers slightly soiled and smudged; overall in very nice condition as issued enclosed in a chemise and cloth slipcase. 20 parts in 19 as issued 8vo original pictorial blue wrappers. 40 plates. A fine set of Dombey and Son in original parts completely unsophisticated as evidenced by the ink signature on each front wrapper of a contemporary reader Stephen Blair. Dickens novels in parts with the evidence of the contemporary ownership on each wrapper are scarce and such provenance is virtually the only way to establish that a set has not been sophisticated "married" or "made up.". <br/><br/> London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846-48 hardcover books
