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21845London: Chapman and Hall 1865. First Edition. 2 volumes; octavo 23cm.; original burgundy blind-tooled cloth decorative gilt spines; xi132036;vii130933pp.; frontis. & 38 plates. Both volumes recased with new endpapers to match original yellow glazed endpapers half titles preserved; cover blind-tooling neary imperceptible extremities a bit rubbed and faded spine crowns reinforced to match though affecting gilt ruling; Vol. I plates uniformly dampstained apparently before binding. Still a Very Good sound set. GIMBEL A150; SMITH 15. Chapman and Hall unknown books
185099845London: Bradbury and Evans 1850. First edition in book form of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" Virginia Woolf. Octavo bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments raised bands red morocco spine labels. With frontispiece engraved title-page and 38 plates inserted throughout. Plates by H.K. Browne. In near fine condition. With many lovers of the author's works David Copperfield ranks as the finest of his writings. With a book which gave to the world such characters as Betsy Trotwood Micawber the Pegottys and Mr. Dick. it would be strange if it had been otherwise" Eckel 77. "Dickens and Browne are the most celebrated author-artist team in the history of English book illustration" and Copperfield was their "most popular success" Hodnett 111-12. "Charles Dickens and Hablot Knight Browne are the most celebrated author-artist team in the history of English book illustration" and Copperfield was their "most popular success" Hodnett 111-12. Bradbury and Evans hardcover books
1897WN35526London: Chapman & Hall 1897. Original red calf gilt with 5 bands surrounding dark and light brown morocco titling labels and fleurons. TEG other edges untrimmed. Introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. Illustrations by the usual Dickens artists. The set makes an an impressive shelf array. Gadshill Edition. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Chapman & Hall Hardcover books
186444650.1London: Chapman & Hall 1864. 1st edition Hatton & Cleaver pp. 345 - 370. Original green printed wrappers. Housed in a custom chemise and deep green full morocco pull-apart case with elaborate gilt decoration to spine. Age-toning. 1st two parts as well as the final show some wear & edge chipping. Part 12 with largish chip to top of front wrapper affected "April". Part 15 lacking tip of front wrapper lower corner. Part 18 with tear to rear wrapper fore-edge. Overall condition of Parts: VG - VG. Case: Some minor wear with interior lip showing some chafing at top corners from removal of top portion's tight fit. Overall VG. 20 parts in 19. Some advert variances /- from that found listed in Hatton & Cleaver; specific collation supplied on request. Illustrated with 40 plates by Marcus Stone. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall unknown books
19354698New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1935. 4to. Superbly bound by Albert Oldach accomplished American bookbinder who took over his father's bindery Frederick J. M. Oldach and Company in the early 1900's a successful bindery in Philadelphia that bound editions of Whitman and other notable authors in 19th Century. Exquisite full crushed dark blue morocco with bold gilt design and patterning on both covers and spine five raised bands gilt panels. Especially of note are the wonderful full morocco doublures much more elaborately tooled and than the covers and each with a central inlaid maroon morocco face large groupings of vine and blossoms including a central tree design and the front doublure with gilt Presentation: "George N. J. Sommer/ 1936." Sommer was a prominent surgeon. AEG. Beautiful maroon silk mauve endsheets. Book and binding are perfectly fine. <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
1853145511853. in the primary cloth binding With Illustrations by Hablot. K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans 1853. Original blind-stamped olive green cloth all page edges gilt.<br/><br/> First Edition in book form following issuance in 20-in-19 monthly parts of Dickens's famous novel that attacks Chancery the London legal system. Included are forty plates by "Phiz" of which ten are "dark plates" made possible by a new procedure. This copy is still in the original cloth binding -- the primary one with blind-stamping that includes 16 little beads around each cover's outer margin. An ad in the final serial part urged customers to either a buy the book in this binding for one guinea £1/1s/0d or b take their serial parts to "their Booksellers" to arrange for the parts to be bound up in this binding for 1s/6d. This copy -- bound without the half-title and of course without all the ads -- is from the latter option as one can see the parts' stab-holes; the owner of these parts paid extra though to have gilding added to the page edges. Condition is good-to-very good -- actually near-fine except for the rear joint where there is wear along the rear joint and a little at the spine ends though no cloth is missing and nothing new other than glue has been added. The pale-yellow endpapers are original though substantially cracked at the gutter again glued in place so all is tight. Lastly all forty plates are present but as is often the case they are browned at the outer margin and some have moderate foxing; as always the spine is sunned to a honey brown -- unavoidable with olive green cloth. These hefty octavo Dickens volumes this one is 624 pages not including the plates were much too heavy for their delicate cloth and endpapers -- which is why the vast majority of copies have been rebound; in our experience BLEAK HOUSE is considerably more difficult to find in original cloth than in serial parts. With Inspector Bucket investigating BLEAK HOUSE is a Haycraft-Queen "Cornerstone" of Detective Crime & Mystery Fiction; the book first appeared on the screen as a silent film in 1920 and more recently 2005 as a British TV mini-series. Smith I pp 79-84. unknown books
1848WRCLIT82006London: Bradbury & Evans 1848. xvi624pp. Original medium green cloth stamped in blind lettered in gilt the secondary binding. Frontis vignette title and 38 engraved plates by H.K. Browne "Phiz". Ink name on free endsheet spine a bit sunned and rubbed a few trivial nicks at crown of spine but a very good copy internally fresh and clean. First edition with the eight-line errata but with the later form of the vignette title with the imprint of Chapman & Hall representing sheets passed from Bradbury & Evans to Chapman & Hall ca. 1861. The substantial majority of the textual errors far exceeding those mentioned in the errata are uncorrected. This work includes the first example of the "dark plate" process facing page 547. SMITH 8. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
122700London: Chapman and Hall n.d. Finely bound example of two of Dickens' best-known works with a fore-edge painting. Octavo bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands marbled endpapers illustrated by Cruikshank and Browne all edges gilt with a fore-edge painting by Martin Frost displaying four scenes from Oliver Twist. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. "Dickens turned in Oliver Twist to the novel of crime and terror Some characters are drawn with humorous realism but for the most part humor is dimmed by gloomy memories of the author's own neglected childhood and sensational scenes are shrouded in an atmosphere genuinely eerie and sinister That Dickens shared with his contemporaries the conviction that the novel should be an instrument of social reform is evident in Oliver Twist" Baugh. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
186520795London: Chapman and Hall 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green wrappers housed in very good maroon leatherette chemise and slipcase backstrip lettered in gilt. Stone Marcus. 626 pages in text. 22 x 13.5 cm. First edition in the original 20 issues in 19 parts with 40 inserted plates by Marcus Stone. The title to the book was selected four years before the issue but Dickens' effort to keep "All The Year Round" afloat and his illnesses compelled him to write at a diminished speed.Thirty thousand copies were sold of the first number see: ECKEL p.94. With page "31" misprint instead of "13" in number ten and Our Mutual Advertiser in each issue. Lacking the scarce 4-page inset of "The Economic Life Assurance Society" in no. 14 but retaining the "Foreign Bank Notes" slip in nos. 19/20. HATTON & CLEAVER pp. 345-370. A few numbers with corner tears and creases twelve issue have their backstrips restored the plates generally clean practically all with the original tissue guards. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1850117844London: Bradbury and Evans 1850. First edition in book form of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" Virginia Woolf. Octavo bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt tooling to the spine and raised gilt bands frontispiece pictorial title page and 38 etched plates by H. K. Browne. In very good condition. With many lovers of the author's works David Copperfield ranks as the finest of his writings. With a book which gave to the world such characters as Betsy Trotwood Micawber the Pegottys and Mr. Dick. it would be strange if it had been otherwise" Eckel 77. "Dickens and Browne are the most celebrated author-artist team in the history of English book illustration" and Copperfield was their "most popular success" Hodnett 111-12. "Charles Dickens and Hablot Knight Browne are the most celebrated author-artist team in the history of English book illustration" and Copperfield was their "most popular success" Hodnett 111-12. Bradbury and Evans hardcover books
184641524London 1846. Matted & housed in a handsome gilt-edged wooden frame. Nr Fine condition in a frame showing little wear. Engraving: 13-1/8" x 9". Frame: 28-1/4" x 22-1/2" <br/><br/>Engraved by D. J. Pound after a photograph by Mayall. A handsome piece destined to grace a study wall. unknown books
186540899New York: Published by John Bradburn Successor to M. Doolady 1865. 1st US book edition 2nd issue Edgar & Vail p. 29n stating 'not seen'; Gimbel A153; Smith 14 p. 408. Not in VanderPoel nor Wilkins. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped spine lettering & graphic and boards stamped in blind. Pale peach colored eps. "D. S. Pillsbury" ticket to each front paste-down. Bit of shelfwear with board just showing to lower tips. Chipping to cloth at spine ends. Volumes joint cloth just starting top & bottom 1". Penciled pos to preliminary blank. Paper lightly toned occasional light spotting/foxing. Withal a respectable Very Good set of this rare US edition. 4 volumes in 2 317 1 blank; 314; 314; 294 pp. Frontis in each volume 14 inserted plates v1: 6; v2: 3; v3: 3; v4: 2. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/> Published by John Bradburn (Successor to M. Doolady) hardcover books
18685074.26London: Chapman & Hall 1868. 1st volume edition. Black half leather bindings with marbled boards Vols 10 11 & 14-16 with Arabic numerals to spine labels; all other volumes have Roman numerals. Occasional corner wear. Some rubbing to boards. Period pos dated 1860. Occasional spot of foxing. Vol 10 with professionally restored joints. Withal a solid VG set. 20 volumes complete. ~600 pages per volume. Text double column. Christmas Stories included: Vol 2 with "The Haunted House" Vol 6 has "Tom Tiddler's Ground" Vol 8 has "Somebody's Luggage" & Vol 10 has "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings" Vol 4 lacks "A Message from the Sea". 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6-1/8" <br/><br/>From the start of his literary career Dickens wished to be an editor. and began such early-on with Bentley's Miscellany. After two more somewhat unsuccessful efforts he succeeded with Household Words which due to personal differences with his publishers gave rise to this final editorial publication All The Year Round. The content was miscellaneous in nature and attracted some of the best writers of the day- Wilkie Collins The Moonstone & The Woman in White Mrs. Gaskell A Dark Night's Work Trollope Is He Popenjoy. not to mention Dickens himself- the periodical contains the first appearance of his two great works- A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
3144London: Chapman and Hall. Complete set of Charles Dickens' works. Octavo 30 volumes bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards gilt tooling to the spine top edge gilt marbled endpapers illustrated throughout. In very good condition. Charles Dickens is generally considered the greatest writer of the Victorian period. His works are characterized by attacks on social evils injustice and hypocrisy. "His imaginative freshness his deep and sincere tenderness and pity his whole-souled humor that is seldom sharpened into wit his superabundance of creative energy have built a deathless niche in the temple of fame for Charles Dickens" Kunitz & Haycraft 184. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
183816547London: Richard Bentley 1838. Full leather. Near Fine. George Cruikshank. The 1838 true 1st edition with no border to "The Last Song" in a sumptuous light-blue full-leather binding. 5 raised bands highly-decorative gilt-ornamented compartments along the spine. Clean tight and Near Fine and internally bordering on immaculate with no writing or markings of any kind. 12mos all edges gilt full-page illustrations thruout by the great George Cruikshank. Also includes a handsome custom-made blue-cloth slipcase housing the set. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley hardcover books
1848100525Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz jun 1848. First Tauchnitz editions. Christmas Carol with handcolored lithographed frontsipiece of Marley's Ghost and Scrooge after John Leech each work with its half-title. Together 5 works in one volume vols. 8vo. Nineteenth-century purple cloth gilt; spine faded. A bit of scattered foxing. First Tauchnitz editions. Christmas Carol with handcolored lithographed frontsipiece of Marley's Ghost and Scrooge after John Leech each work with its half-title. Together 5 works in one volume vols. 8vo. Tauchnitz Editions of Dickens' Christmas Books. A brilliant Sammelband of the first Tauchnitz editions of Dickens's Christmas books each set from advance proofs and issued essentially simultaneously with the first London editions. Todd & Bowden Tauchnitz A1Ab A3a A5a A6 A9a Bernh. Tauchnitz, jun unknown books
1859268799London: Chapman and Hall 1859. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrated by H.K. Browne 8vo newly re-bound in full red morocco. London: Chapman & Hall 1859. First Edition.<br/><br/> The title page & frontispiece are heavily foxed; some other plates are lightly foxed but otherwise a clean copy. Second issue without typographic misprints on pp. 134 & 213; "b" signature on list of plates.<br/><br/> Chapman and Hall unknown books
185768171In the Original Monthly Parts DICKENS Charles. Little Dorrit. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First edition in original monthly parts: twenty numbers bound in nineteen as issued in the original blue printed wrappers. With forty inserted plates. First state text in XV with "Rigaud" for "Blandois." Original wrappers with the usual minor chipping and occasional splitting along spines. Some discreet repairs a few stains and tears to wrappers light edge-wear some light foxing to plates. Still a bright very nice copy. Front wrapper of part I with a 3-inch closed tear. Chemised and housed in a half green morocco pull-off case spine faded to brown. In the back of part XVI lacking the correction slip and the "32 Fleet St." four-page slip on green paper; otherwise all parts collates complete with all wrappers correct all"Advertisers" and all back ads. In the back ad of part XI all ads are present but bound in a different order than as stated in Hatton & Cleaver. Part XVIII complete with all text pages but they are bound in incorrect order. Part VII with tearing to lower outer corner of front ads pg 3-6 minimally affecting text. Part XIII with a corner torn on the ad slip for "Household Words" not affecting text. Hatton and Cleaver 305-333. Smith Dickens I 12. HBS 68171. $2000 Bradbury and Evans unknown books
184099753London: Chapman and Hall 1840. First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo 3 volumes original blindstamped pictorial cloth gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel marbled endpapers all edges marbled engraved frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. In near fine condition. An exceptional example. Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly serial that contained both short stories and two novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Some of the short stories act as frame stories to the novels so the ordering of publication is important. Although Dickens' original artistic intent was to keep the short stories and the novels together he himself cancelled Master Humphrey's Clock before 1848 and described in a preface to The Old Curiosity Shop that he wished the story to not be tied down to the miscellany it began within. Most later anthologies published the short stories and the novels separately. However the short stories and the novels were published in 1840 in three bound volumes under the title Master Humphrey's Clock which retains the full and correct ordering of texts as they originally appeared. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1854140940189London: Chapman and Hall 1854. First Edition. Very Good. 1854-1855. Twenty issues bound into 19 parts as issued. In publisher's green wraps printed in black. First edition. First state of No. 1 with no printer's imprint at bottom of front wrapper. All slips and ad pages present as per Hatton & Cleaver with the following exceptions: last 2pp. of Chapman and Hall ads missing from No. 1; a slip missing in No.2; slip "Tale of Chivalrous Life" not in No. 5; final two ads in No. 6 missing; no "Kaye's" slip in No. 7; no "Mappin Webb. & Co." ad at rear in No. 15. "London Society" slip supposed to be No. 9 bound in rear of No. 8 instead; "Mr. S.O. Beeton's" bound before "Astra Castra" contrary to bibliography. As is typical "Foreign Bank Notes" slip in 19 & 20 "Mappin" ad gone as well and No. 14's "Economic Life Assurance" slip absent. <br /> <br /> Very Good with spines and several covers neatly restored and general wear and light soiling; inked name or notation on front cover of Nos. 8 14. Small scrape to ad at rear of No. 16. Housed in a custom dark green morocco and cloth case. The original serialized appearance of the last novel Dickens completed with a phenomenal amount of advertisements and slips that deepen the reader's immersion in mid-19th century London. Chapman and Hall unknown books
194040137London: Chapman and Hall for the Dickens Fellowship 1940. 37 vols. Red cloth with original wrappers bound in at end; the last 7 issues still in the original wrappers & housed in broken chemise. Generally very fine. 37 vols. Gimbel H575-H578; Graham English Literary Periodicals p. 308 Chapman and Hall for the Dickens Fellowship unknown books
183900007117London: Chapman & Hall 1839. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 7 viii-xvi 1 2-624 pp. Bound in later dark brown leather spine with 5 raised bands with gilt ruling and gilt lettering marbled endpapers and pastedowns all edges gilt. Illustrated by an engraved frontispiece portait of the author engraved by Finden from a painting by Maclise along with 39 additional plates by H.K. Browne 'Phiz'. First edition bound from the parts with the front wrapper of part XVIII bound in at the rear. All is as called for in Smith for the first state including the errors on page 123 and page 160 and the imprint of Chapman & Hall on the first four plates and the frontispiece n.b the imprint on the frontispiece is at the very bottom edge and is only visible upon close inspection. Smith I 5; Gimbel A 40. A very attractive copy of Dickens' third novel. A few traces of wear to the extremities and darkening to the edges of most of the plates but the leaves and the images on the plates are generally quite clean. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
1837312240London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition in book form with 'S. Veller' on page 342 line 5; 'this friends' for 'his friends' on page 400 line 21 and 'f' in 'of' imperfect in the headline on page 432. Etched vignette title page frontispiece 41 plates by Robert Seymour R. W. Buss and H. K. Browne. The two Buss plates present facing pages 69 and 74 otherwise all plates in early states with page numbers as called for but no titles or imprints and the vignette title-page with the signboard reading "Veller" corrected to "Weller" in later issues. 8vo. Full crushed burgundy morocco gilt t.e.g. by Chas. J. Sawyer Grafton St. Paper repair to title light toning and foxing throughout. First edition in book form with 'S. Veller' on page 342 line 5; 'this friends' for 'his friends' on page 400 line 21 and 'f' in 'of' imperfect in the headline on page 432. Etched vignette title page frontispiece 41 plates by Robert Seymour R. W. Buss and H. K. Browne. The two Buss plates present facing pages 69 and 74 otherwise all plates in early states with page numbers as called for but no titles or imprints and the vignette title-page with the signboard reading "Veller" corrected to "Weller" in later issues. 8vo. Pickwick Finely Bound. Smith 3 pp. 19-27; Eckel p. 117 ff; Sadleir 698 Chapman and Hall unknown books
1837123014London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition in book form of Dickens' first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles all edges gilt with a fore-edge painting displaying a portrait of Dickens and a scene from the novel. With forty-three illustrations by R. Seymour and "Phiz. In very good condition. Bookplate to the pastedown. 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
254470Boston: Jefferson Press. hardcover. near fine. 15 volumes. 8vo 3/4 black morocco marbled boards topedge gilt. Boston & New York: Jefferson Press no date ca. 1900. Near fine.<br/><br/> Edition de Luxe<br/><br/> Jefferson Press unknown books
