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126423London: Bradbury and Evans 1852-3. <br /> <br /> 8vo. 20 monthly parts in 19 as issued 3-24 1-32 1 partial; 16 33-64 8 8 4; 16 65-96 4 4 2 4; 12 97-128 1 4 8 4; 12 129-160 4 8 4; 8 161-192 4 2; 12 193-224 4 4 8 2 2 2; 12 225-256 2 2; 8 257-288 8 2 4; 1-2 partial 3-16 4 289-320 8; 16 321-352 16 2 2 2; 16 353-384 2 4 2; 16 385-416 8 2; 16 417-488 8 2 2 2 4; 12 449-480 8 4 2 4; 12 481-512 8; 12 513-544 4 2; 8 545-576 8 2; 20 577-624 xvi 16 2 16 40 steel engraved plates including frontispiece and title vignette. A made-up set as usual in the original blue printed wrappers with trade advertisements to the inside as well as outside back wrappers uncut with a variety of publishers ads on teal green pink and white paper bound-in. Lacking a few of the advertisements and slips as always usual chipping and curling to the edges minor foxing to plates otherwise a very good set of all 20 parts with all the text and plates intact and unscathed. Some parts signed "Todd" in ink. Full red morocco pull-off case lettered in gilt. A very good set.<br /> <br /> § First edition in the original parts. "Between the publication of David Copperfield and the writing of Bleak House Dickens had established a weekly journal which after much discussion he called Household Words. he had been writing largely for this new venture this including his "Child's History of England" which ran serial. The result was that when he fairly got started with Bleak House he fell ill several times. In a letter he confessed that he was overworked. The new novel was an attack in the abuses of Chancery. An interesting feature is Dickens's defense of the theory of spontaneous combustion in the preface of the book" Eckel 78. Hatton & Cleaver 275-304. unknown
18531708065Bradbury & Evans 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good first edition in the original boards. Very rare as such since most copies are rebound. Some foxing. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Bradbury & Evans hardcover
184389471Lonodon: Chapman &Hall January 1843-July 1844. First Edition. Octavo. 22cm. 20 Monthly Parts issued as 19 with 19/20 being a single larger issue. The majority of the parts all in their original powder blue wraps are in very good condition with some light wear to edges and extremities Part I has some soiling and chipping to the front wrap mainly confined to the fore-edge four issues have some noticeable chipping to the spine panels Parts VI XI XII and XVI have professional restoration or repair work in places Part XIX/XX has chipping to the spine and a triangular closed tear to the lower edge of the rear wrap. A few of the plates have some light spotting to the margins those present in Parts V and X have some slightly heavier foxing but nothing unsightly; internally clean and fresh if bearing many of the expected eccentricities of any set of Dickens in parts. A very good example in a tailor made green cloth chemise and box with a leather title label. <br /> <br /> This copy conforms to all the required Hatton & Cleaver elements with a few exceptions or variations: Part II lacks the Marylebone Ironworks advertising slip Part IV has the plates bound in before the last leaves of the Chuzzlewit Advertiser Part VII lacks the extremely scarce "Neatly Bound in Cloth" ad slip following the front wrap Hatton and Cleaver admittedly states this element is only found in 6 known copies Part XII lacks the "Winter Season" and "Relief Fund" ad leaves from the rear but has an additional "Pride of London" 32pp. stitched booklet in pink paper wraps Part XIX/XX has a variant rear wrap presumably a later issue where the text advertising the "Illuminated Magazine" specifies a "scarlet binding" not mentioned in H&C. <br /> <br /> Otherwise the vivid details of London life and its mercantile necessities the repeated concocted dialogs debating the Corn Laws and income tax and the elaborately illustrated booklets promoting the Panklibanon Bazaar and the "Rising Wonder" of Professor Browne's "Celebrated and Unique Hair-Cutting Saloon" are all present in their intended places. <br /> Reading Dickens in book form is traditionally a fine method of building an understanding the early Victorian period and its manners oddities and obsessions - reading Dickens in parts is rather more like taking a temporary vacation to 1844 London; story and plot are one thing but once one has learned that an 8 foot Bagatelle table is available from Mechli's Emporium on Leadenhall Street for a mere five pounds to all discerning gentlemen one may never want to leave. <br /> The meticulous observations of the bibliography are of great academic and historical interest but in the case of Chuzzlewit they don't indicate any order of precedence there are no issue points "called for" although some authorities suggest that the inverted Sterling symbol on the vignette title page present in this copy might be a first issue point continued research has suggested that to be unlikely. Chapman &Hall unknown
18641083421864. London: Chapman and Hall Piccadilly May 1864 - November 1865. <br /> <br /> 8vo 20 monthly parts in 19 as issued 32 1-32 2 8 2 8 4 2 2 2 4; 16 33-64 4 2 2 4 2; 16 65-96 1 2 4 8 2; 16 97-128 4 1 1 4 2 4; 16 1 129-160 2 2 2; 16 161-192 1 4 4 1 4 8 4 2; 16 193-224 1 2 1 2 4 2; 2 16 257-288 2 4 4 4 1 8 4; 16 289-320 xi 1 4 4; 16 1 1-32 2 4 1; 2 16 1 1 33-64 4 4 2 2; 16 65-96 2; 16 97-128 4; 16 129-160 4 4; 16 161-192 4 2; 16 193-224 2 4 8 2; 16 1 225-256 4 4 2; 16 257-309 viii 2 2 4 2 1 2 2 40 wood engraved plates. Original printed green wrappers with trade advertisements to inner sides as well as outside back wrappers uncut with a variety of ads and slips on teal green pink and white paper bound-in. Housed in a half green morocco and green cloth pull-off case with raised bands gilt titling and additional green cloth portfolio with flaps case backstrip evenly sunned. Individual parts in very good condition with only slight wear to wrappers and edges internally they seem almost to have never been read. A complete set missing only a few ads mentioned in Hatton & Cleaver with no visible signs that ads have been removed and includes ads not mentioned in Hatton & Cleaver.<br /> <br /> § First edition in the original parts. The wood engravings and cover designs were for the first time charged to the skillful hand of Marcus Stone the orphaned son of an old artist friend who worked in the "sentimental-realist style of 1860s book illustration" OxfordDNB. Our Mutual Friend was Dickens's last completed novel written slowly due too increased occasions of illness and a serious railway accident. Similar to Bleak House and Little Dorrit Our Mutual Friend comprises the usual social satire elaborate plotting and sweeping views of contemporary society differing most notably in the positive outcome of the central love stories. Eckel 96. Hatton and Cleaver 345-370. unknown
184582226London:: Chapman and Hall 1845. First edition; llfirst state of the added engraved illustrated title page. publisher's red cloth gilt- and blind-embossed; a.e.g. A beautiful copy. 12mo. Illustrated from engravings including frontispiece and added engraved title page. With the elegant 1846 ownership signature of actor and writer Miss Helen Faucit. It seems likely that Faucit and Dickens would have met: she and her husband Sir Theodore Martin were friends of Thackeray; and Martin was present at the brief reconciliation of Thackeray and Dickens at the Atheneum Club. Chapman and Hall, hardcover
185050859London: Bradbury & Evans 1850. First edition. Softcover. Good to very good condition. Octavo. Original illustrated light blue green wraps with black lettering on covers housed in green half Morocco over green cloth slipcase with gilt ruling at edges gilt lettering and ruling on spine; raised bands. Contains inner green pebbled cloth chemise.<br /> <br /> First edition of the original twenty numbers with some issues in later states bound in nineteen monthly parts eighteen of them priced one Shilling the double issue parts XIX and XX at two Shillings with most of the points called for by Hatton & Cleaver pp. 253-272. The later states as noted by additional inserted material.<br /> <br /> Dickens' most autobiographical novel exploring social conditions of the nineteenth century with the protagonist David Copperfield narrating his journey from infancy to adulthood. Contains thirteen inserts slips and full page inserts the misprint "Lile" instead of "Life" on the third page of front ads the folding plate of "Lett's Diaries for 1850" and six specimen included in variant numbers in volume VIII. In volume XII the fourteenth inserted slip called for is substituted with two pages of "Hydropathic Establishment Sudbrook Park Near Richmond Surrey."<br /> <br /> Missing are the advertisement in Vol. II the first two pages of front advertisements in Vol. VIII and pages 5 and 6 in the Waterlow & Sons advertisement in Vol. X. There are some substitutions and additions e.g. four leaves of ads in volume XI not called for in Hutton & Cleaver. See detailed description below.<br /> <br /> All plates are present. The design of the wrappers and all forty plates executed by "Phiz." "The forty designs were etched in duplicate and though the steels are not numbered the plates are distinguishable by the changing signature of "Phiz" as well as by other slight variations. When printed the duplicate plates were again distributed indiscriminately so that no two sets are alike and several copies of the nineteen parts would be required to complete a collection of the eighty plates. " Hatton & Cleaver.<br /> <br /> List of issues with pagination and variations compared to the description in the Hatton & Cleaver bibliography:<br /> <br /> No. I. Issue: 32pp. 2 plates 32 4pp. Two leaves of advertisements at rear bound in reverse order first "The Theory of Musical Composition." then "The Journal of Design" 2pp. each. <br /> <br /> No. II. Issue: 12pp. 2 plates 33-64pp. 10pp. Front wrapper without printed No. 2 inked and June but price "1 s." printed inside front cover blank missing Heal & Sons ad. Plates bound in reverse order. Back wrapper inside "January. E. Moses and Son" called for in issue IX instead of "Opinions Of The Press." <br /> <br /> No. III: Issue: 12pp. 2 plates 65-96pp. 4pp. Plates bound in reverse order. <br /> <br /> No. IV. Issue: 8pp. 2 plates 6pp. Back wrapper inside "A Sketch for the Spring. E. Moses & Son" Called for in part XI instead of "The Vaunting Marts."<br /> <br /> No. V. Issue: 4pp. 2 plates 129-160pp. 20pp. Back wrapper inside "To Old Neptune. E. Moses & Son" Called for in part III instead of "My Sea-Side Trip."<br /> <br /> No. VI. Issue: 8pp. 2 plates 161-192pp. 22pp. Back wrapper inside "The Lady and the Peacock. E. Moses & Son" Called for in part XVII instead of "Twenty Years Ago." Advertising at back with 20 pages by A. Hall Virtue & Co. not called for instead of eight pages by "Waterloo & Sons. Two additional pages by J. & D. A. Darling printed in orange are also not called for.<br /> <br /> No. VII. Issue: 8pp. 2 plates 1 slip 193-224 8pp. Back wrapper inside "The Dog-Days. E. Moses & Son" Called for in part XV instead of "The Whale in the Tames. The called for slip "This day is published. Punch' Pocket-Book." is present.<br /> <br /> No. VIII. Issue: 3-12pp. 2 plates 4 225-256pp. 6 specimen pages and one page folded in five "Lett's Diaries for 1850" of advertising. Back wrapper inside "The Powdered-Headed Gentleman. E. Moses & Son" Called for in part XIV instead of "The Proper Field." Advertisement front pages one and two missing. Point of first issue page 3 of advertisements has the misspelt word "Lile" for "Life" and four green pages "New Weekly Illustrated Periodical for Ladies" bound in after plates. Advertisement Back: "Lett's Diaries for 1850" a sheet folded in five with six specimen leaves of diaries dated from 1846 to 1849. These specimens are a varying quantity generally eight pieces our issue has six. <br /> <br /> No. IX. Issue: 12pp. 2 plates slip. 257-288pp. 22pp. Plates bound in reverse order. Light green slip to follow plates present New Weekly Miscellany.<br /> <br /> No. X. Issue: 12pp. 2 plates 289-320 8pp. Plates bound in reverse order. Missing leaf with pp. 5 and 6 of Waterlow & Sons advertisements at rear remnants visible. <br /> <br /> No. XI. Issue: 8pp. 2 plates slip 321-352 8pp. Includes three advertisements at rear eight pages not called for: including one leaf for "Illustrated Weekly Journal for Ladies" on pink paper one leaf for Penny Maps and two leaves of the most remarkable publications of the day. Plates bound in reverse order. Slip following plates "Familiar in their Mouths as Household Words." present.<br /> <br /> No. XII. Issue: 8pp 2 plates slip 353-384pp. 2pp. 8 8 2pp. Back wrapper inside "The Winter of 1814. E. Moses & Son" Called for in part X instead of "On an old Picture." Slip to follow plates present Household Words. Instead of slip called for at rear Visit to the Exhibition. the issue includes two pages not called for entitled "Hydropathic Establishment Sudbrook Park Near Richmond Surrey." <br /> <br /> No. XIII. Issue: 8pp. 2 plates slip 385-416pp. slip. Back wrapper inside "The Powdered-Headed Gentleman. E. Moses & Son" Called for in part XIV instead of "'So-So.'" Plates bound in reverse. Green slip "The Household Narrative" bound in following plates numbered on verso and slip "New Illustrated Weekly. The Ladies' Companion" bound in at rear as called for.<br /> <br /> No. XIV. Issue: 8pp. 2 plates 8pp. insert 417-448pp. 2pp. Plates bound in reverse. Eight small green pages of the weekly "Household Words" bound in.<br /> <br /> No. XV. 4pp. 2 plates 2 449-480pp. 8pp. <br /> <br /> No. XVI. Issue: Slip 4pp. 2 plates 4pp. 481-512pp. 8 1pp. Slip preceding advertisements at front "Punch's Holidays" and four small green pages "Household Words" following plates are present. Eight pages of advertisement by Waterlow & Sons and one yellow leaf of "Eliza Cook's Journal" at rear not called for in Hatton & Cleaver. <br /> <br /> No. XVII. Issue:4pp. 2 plates 513-544pp. 2pp. Plates bound in reverse order.<br /> <br /> No. XVIII. Issue: 8pp. 2 plates 545-576pp. 8 1pp. Plates bound in reverse order. Waterlow & Sons ads at back missing pages 5 and 6 torn out with remnants visible. <br /> <br /> Nos. XIX and XX. Issue: 16pp. slip 4 plates slip 577-624pp. xiv ipp. 8 4 8pp. Back wrapper inside "Daniel Lambert's Suit" Called for in part XVIII instead of "To the Statue on Bloomsbury Church." E. Moses & Son.<br /> <br /> Slipcase with light wear along edges. Bookplate on inside front cover of chemise with very light staining. Wraps generally with light wear along edges small chips occasional light staining. Foxing of plates in vol. II. other volumes with foxing or damp staining in margins hardly affecting image about half of them in good condition. Names inked to top margins of front covers of vols. I V IX–XI. Bradbury & Evans unknown
1850130508London: Bradbury and Evans 1850. First edition of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" Virginia Woolf. Octavo bound in full morocco by Bayntun-Riviere gilt titles and tooling to the spine raised bands gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel gilt signature on the back panel inner dentelles all edges gilt marbled endpapers. In fine condition. Illustrated with 38 etchings by Hablot Knight Browne. An exceptional presentation. 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
188173897London:: Chapman & Hall 1881-1882. Edition de Luxe; No. 833 of 1000 sets. publisher's half blue morocco and blue and gold marbled boards; t.e.g. Bookplate on each pastedown; a few volumes have some foxing to the blank endsheets furnished by the binder; a few spines slightly sunned but all volumes unworn tight and sound. A handsome example of this important set. Large 8vo. Illustrations after Seymour Phiz Browne Leech and others on India paper. There are four colored plates illustrating A Christmas Carol. . Additional postage applicable for this 60-volume set. Chapman & Hall, hardcover
189410986Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1894. The New Library edition of the works of Charles Dickens. Octavo 32 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine raised bands top edges gilt illustrated. Bookplate to each front pastedown. In near fine condition. 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. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
185086860Bradbury & Evans | London 1850 | 13.50 x 21.60 cm | relié
1869022519Boston Massachusettes: Fields Osgood & Co. 1869. Edge and corner wear slight fraying to the top and base of the spine and a split at the base of the spine corners are bumped and rubbed some light outer page edge soil front hinge is cracked pages are toned overall a very very rare first Fields Osgood & Co. edition successors to Ticknor and Fields. Extremely scarce and hard-to-find edition! Wonderfully well-preserved! 316 historical pages of text and a section of 36 pages at the back of the book containing: "A List of Books Published by Messrs. Fields Osgood & Co. Successors to Ticknor and Fields." Blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and front cover. Front cover in gilt lettering: "The SnarleoDreirene Edition" not quite sure of the spelling tough to make out. Contains eight black and white illustrations. . First Thus. Blue Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. Fields, Osgood, & Co. Hardcover
alb9ee755e8215197baDickens Charles. Dickens Charles. A Personal History of David Copperfield. A Personal History of David Copperfield. In English (ask us if in doubt)/Dickens Charles. Dikkens Charlz. Personal History of David Copperfield. Lichnaya istoriya Devida Kopperfilda. Short description: In English (ask us if in doubt).Illustration in Color by Frank Reynolds R.I. London. The Westminster press 1911. 572p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb9ee755e8215197ba
18937433n.p. London 1893. Original artwork. Near Fine. Twelve fine original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings illustrating Martin Chuzzlewit signed by the artist. Quarto 11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 286 x 225 mm. Done on fine laid paper. Original blue wrappers with "12 Original Character Studies from 'Oliver Twist' Drawn in colors by 'Kyd'" in ink manuscript on front wrapper. Wrappers expertly repaired. Housed in a green cloth portfolio. Manuscript list of characters. A few of the watercolors have light browning in the right hand margins not affecting images. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Kyd has faithfully recreated some of the immortal and lovable characters from one of Charles Dickens' most famous novels. The characters of the novel here represented are: Mrs. Sairah Gamp; Mark Tapley; Bailey Junior; Mr. Pecksniff; Mrs. Todgers; Tom Pinch; Charity Pecksniff; Betsey Prig; Montague Tigg; Poll Sweedlepipe; Chevy Slyme and Mercy Pecksniff.<br /> <br /> Joseph Clayton Clark a.k.a. "Kyd" 1856 - 1937 worked as a freelance artist with a particular affection for Dickens his Dickens illustrations first appearing in 1887 in Fleet Street Magazine with two collections soon to follow: The Characters of Charles Dickens 1889 and Some Well Known Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens 1892. Beginning in the 1920s he earned his living from watercolor sketches mainly of Dickens' characters which he sold to and through the London book trade. Frederic G. Kitton gives him early notice in his classic text Dickens and His Illustrators 1890; Kyd's watercolors were at that date already being avidly bought by major Dickens collectors Kitton p. 233.<br /> <br /> "As a character 'Kyd' emulated those of Dickens and his own illustrations - slightly larger than life. In his style and dress he was mildly flamboyant for the period.He seldom varied his attire from a grey suit spats homburg hat gloves and was never without a carnation or substitute flower in his button hole" Sawyer Kyd p. 7. Near Fine. unknown
18937432n.p. London 1893. Original artwork. Near Fine. Twelve fine original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings illustrating Oliver Twist signed by the artist. Quarto 11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 286 x 225 mm. Done on fine laid paper. Original blue wrappers with "12 Original Character Studies from 'Oliver Twist' Drawn in colors by 'Kyd'" in ink manuscript on front wrapper. Wrappers expertly repaired. Housed in a green cloth portfolio. The Toby Crackit plate a little browned on margins. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Kyd has faithfully recreated some of the immortal and lovable characters from one of Charles Dickens' most famous novels. The characters of the novel here represented are Oliver Twist Fagin Nancy Bill Sikes Mr. Bumble the Artful Dodger Charley Bates Noah Claypole Toby Crackit Mr. Sowerberry Mr. Grimwig and Mr. Brownlow. <br /> <br /> Joseph Clayton Clark a.k.a. "Kyd" 1856 - 1937 worked as a freelance artist with a particular affection for Dickens his Dickens illustrations first appearing in 1887 in Fleet Street Magazine with two collections soon to follow: The Characters of Charles Dickens 1889 and Some Well Known Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens 1892. Beginning in the 1920s he earned his living from watercolor sketches mainly of Dickens' characters which he sold to and through the London book trade. Frederic G. Kitton gives him early notice in his classic text Dickens and His Illustrators 1890; Kyd's watercolors were at that date already being avidly bought by major Dickens collectors Kitton p. 233.<br /> <br /> "As a character 'Kyd' emulated those of Dickens and his own illustrations - slightly larger than life. In his style and dress he was mildly flamboyant for the period.He seldom varied his attire from a grey suit spats homburg hat gloves and was never without a carnation or substitute flower in his button hole" Sawyer Kyd p. 7. Near Fine. unknown
18937431n.p. London 1893. Original artwork. Near Fine. Twelve fine original pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings illustrating David Copperfield signed by the artist. Quarto 11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches; 286 x 225 mm. Done on fine laid paper. Original blue wrappers with "12 Original Character Studies from 'David Copperfield' Drawn in colors by 'Kyd'" in ink manuscript on front wrapper. Wrappers expertly repaired. Housed in a green cloth portfolio. Near Fine.<br /> <br /> Kyd has faithfully recreated some of the immortal and lovable characters from one of Charles Dickens most famous novels. The characters of the novel here represented are David Copperfield; Mr. Creakle; Uriah Heep; Betsey Trotwood; Mr. Micawber; Mrs. Micawber; Tommy Traddles; Mr. Murdstone; Daniel Peggotty; Ham; Mrs. Gummidge and Mr. Dick.<br /> <br /> Joseph Clayton Clark aka "Kyd" 1856 - 1937 worked as a freelance artist with a particular affection for Dickens his Dickens illustrations first appearing in 1887 in Fleet Street Magazine with two collections soon to follow: The Characters of Charles Dickens 1889 and Some Well Known Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens 1892. In the first decade of the twentieth century five sets of postcards based on his Dickens drawings were published and seven sets of non-Dickensian comic cards by him were issued. Beginning in the 1920s he earned his living from watercolor sketches mainly of Dickens' characters which he sold to and through the London book trade. Frederic G. Kitton gives him early notice in his classic text Dickens and His Illustrators 1890; Kyd's watercolors were at that date already being avidly bought by major Dickens collectors Kitton p. 233 the Cosens sale in 1890 successfully selling a collection of 241 of Kyd's Dickens watercolors and Mr. Tom Wilson at the time the foremost collector of Dickens possessing 331 of Kyd's drawings.<br /> <br /> "As a character 'Kyd' emulated those of Dickens and his own illustrations - slightly larger than life. In his style and dress he was mildly flamboyant for the period.He seldom varied his attire from a grey suit spats homburg hat gloves and was never without a carnation or substitute flower in his button hole" Sawyer "Kyd" Joseph Clayton Clark: A Preliminary Study of his Life and Work p. 7. Near Fine. unknown
18372938London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition. First edition. Exquisitely bound in full crimson morocco with highly decorative gilt designs and green morocco onlays on cover and spine gilt designs on back cover by Sangorski & Sutcliffe including alternating gilt busts of Samuel Pickwick and Sam Weller which recur in the spine panels. WITH SUPERB WATERCOLOR OVAL WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT OF DICKENS inset to inside upper cover mounted with brass edges ornate gilt and morocco onlay borders full morocco doublures and silk-free endpapers. A wonderful and truly imaginative binding. iii-xiv 2 609 pp. Lacking half-title. With 43 engraved plates by Robert Seymour and H.K. Browne. Some scattered light foxing some fraying to f.f.e.p. else fine. Chapman and Hall unknown books
09140London 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. Plates are very good to fine; plates of parts II VII XI and XII are lightly tanned at edges not affecting illustrations. Tissue guards are in place. Neat owner initials on upper margin of part IV front wrapper; light soiling to a few wrappers. Bookseller ticket removed from front wrapper of part I. Bookseller stamp on front wrap of part XIV. Spines expertly renewed on several parts. Part XIX/XX is partly UNOPENED. A rare slip is laid in by the publisher or possibly by booksellers with the following message: "All ye who wish to read this part of Little Dorrit - Ye surely will not grudge to pay a penny for it; Three days ye'll get to read as well as one to send it And if ye damage 't aught 'tis hop'd ye will refund it." This slip is one of 6 found in the Thomas Hatton collection. Together with autograph notes by Dickens bibliographer Thomas Hatton relating to part IX is laid in. 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
09152London April 1840-November 1841: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. Twenty monthly parts in the original blue-green wrappers; an outstanding set having ALL the ads called for by Hatton & Cleaver except for the quite scarce Tyas ad in part 1; ALL wrappers are correct. Large octavo in sixes i-viii 12-306; i-vvi 12-306; i-vvi 12-426. Original wrapper design by Cattermole; 2 frontispieces 130 woodcuts and 25 initials by Browne; 1 frontispiece and 38 woodcuts by Cattermole; 1 woodcut each by S. Williams and Maclise. Parts 2 and 10 are unopened therefore unread. Most spines are expertly renewed; neat subscriber's name on margin of front wrap of parts 11 and 16. Part 1 wrapper with some spotting; parts 1 and 20 front wrappers with minor repair. Comprises first editions of "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge." Housed in a handsome quarter-leather slipcase with chemise. Provenance: The Hatton and Cleaver collection The Heritage Bookshop Charles Parkhurst Books Inc. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover books
1859151833London 1859. Autograph letter signed by great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. One page dated Sunday Seventeenth July 1859 on Gad's Hill Place stationery with a small pressed flower on the lower left hand corner. Boldly signed by Dickens with his usual flourish. The letter discusses the printing of Tale of Two Cities in monthly parts in his magazine All the Year Round. The letter reads in part "It is very important to me to know that we do not print too many and also what the monthly expenses are." Being founder and editor of the magazine Dickens was no doubt was very keen that they should avoid a surplus and possible financial losses on that account. In near fine condition with light toning and glue residue to the verso. The letter measures 5 inches by 8.25 inches. From the collection of Edith Hyde Colby 1876-1962 prominent leader in the New Jersey suffragette movement and first woman elected to the New Jersey Republican State Committee. Charles Dickens 1812–1870 is among the most celebrated and widely read novelists in the history of English literature a writer whose extraordinary productivity social conscience and narrative genius combined to produce a body of work that both defined the Victorian era and transcended it. Born in Portsmouth into modest circumstances he rose through journalism and sketch writing to achieve with The Pickwick Papers 1836–37 an immediate and sensational popular success that established the serialized novel as the dominant literary form of the age. The novels that followed across the next three decades — among them Oliver Twist Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Martin Chuzzlewit Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend — constitute a panoramic portrait of English society in the midst of industrialization urbanization and class upheaval rendered with a combination of grotesque comedy melodramatic pathos and reformist moral urgency that made Dickens simultaneously the most popular writer of his time and a genuine force for social change. His campaigns against the Poor Laws debtors' prisons industrial exploitation of children and the labyrinthine cruelties of the legal system reached millions of readers who might never have engaged with formal political argument and the influence of his character-making — the gallery of Micawbers Pecksniffs Fagins Miss Havishams and Uriah Heeps that he unleashed upon the English imagination — on the subsequent course of English fiction can scarcely be overstated. unknown
1871773P11London: Chapman and Hall 1871-78. First edition. Paperback. Good. 10" by 7.5". Various. The original parts of Chapman and Hall's important 'Household Edition' of the collected works of Charles Dickens present here in eighty-six original parts . Present here in 86 parts; present are Parts 1 to 8 and 10 to 87 thus lacking Part 9 and Parts 88 to 101 a total of 14 issues not present.Scarce to find in the original parts in the original blue-green wraps.The first edition thus of Dickens' collected work in which Chapman and Hall commissioned new illustrations for the novels.Each issue is illustrated throughout with in-text engravings. One plate to Parts 4 5 7 8 10 11 13 15 18 19 20 22 24 25 27 30 32 33 34 36 37 39 41 44 45 46 50 51 53 54 56 57 59 60 62 64 65 67 68 70 71 73 74 76 77 79 81 83 85 and 86.The collected works of Charles Dickens published after his death in 1870 issued monthly from July 1871 to November 1878. This serialised 'Works' contained all of Dickens' popular Victorian novels 'Oliver Twist' across Parts 1 to 3.'Martin Chuzzlewit' across Parts 3 to 8. The last few chapters were in Part 9 not present here.'David Copperfield' across Parts 10 to 16.'Bleak House' across parts 16 to 22.'Little Dorrit' across Parts 23 to 28.'The Pickwick Papers' across Parts 29 to 34. 'Barnaby Rudge' across parts 35 to 39.'A Tale of Two Cities' across Parts 39 to 41. The last 8 leaves of text are lacking from Part 42.'Our Mutual Friend' across Parts 42 to 48.'Nicholas Nickleby' across Parts 48 to 54 The first 36 leaves are lacking from Part 48 Part 49 starting on page 37.'Great Expectations' across Parts 54 to 57.'The Old Curiosity Shop' across Parts 58 to 61.'Sketches By Boz' across Parts 61 to 65.'Hard Times' across Parts 65 to 67.'Dombey and Son' across Parts 67 to 73. Part 73 ends at page 448.'The Uncommerical Traveller' across Parts 74 to 76.'A Christmas Carol' across Parts 76 to 77.'The Chimes' to Part 77.'The Cricket on the Hearth' across Parts 77 to 78.'The Battle of Life' to Part 78.'The Haunted Man' across Parts 78 and 79.'A Child's History of England' across Parts 80 to 82.'American Notes' across parts 83 to 84.'Pictures From Italy' across parts 84 to 85.'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' across Parts 86 to 87.'Reprinted Pieces' to Part 87. Without the rear wrap text finishing at page 144.Charming adverts to the wraps.Publisher's adverts brochure bound in between pages 64 and 65 of Part I. Publisher's adverts bound between pages 112 and 113 of Part 2. Cassell advert for 'Poor Miss Finch' by Wilkie Collins bound between pages 152 and 153 of Part 3. 'The Quiver' advert brochure bound between pages 52 and 53 of Part 17. 'Rimmel's' advert bound between pages 164 and 165 of Part 18 and 'Right at Last' between pages 132 and 133. 'How When Where' advert bound between pages 196 and 197 of Part 19 and Cassell's advert brochure between pages 212 and 213. 'Cassell' advert bound between pages 368 and 369 of Part 28. Chapman and Hall advertising brochure bound between pages 188 and 189 of Part 60.Issues 1 2 3 6 12 14 17 21 23 26 28 29 31 35 38 40 42 43 47 48 49 52 55 58 61 63 66 69 72 75 78 80 82 84 and 87 are bound without plates. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally with some loss of paper to the backstrips some issues lacking the whole backstrip. Light edgewear to the wraps resulting in some chips and closed tears. Wraps are lightly discoloured with some spots including a small tidemark to the head of the wraps. Loss to the backstrips resulting in some of the wraps lifting a little to the head and tail. Larger chip to the head of the front wrap of Part 39. Front wrap of Part 4 is detached but present. Wraps of Part 13 are detached but present edge worn with some small chips. Rear wrap of Part 48 may detach with further handling. Rear wrap of Part 68 is detached but present. Wraps of Part 80 are worn. Part 87 lacking the rear wrap text ending at page 144. Prior owner's pencil note to the head of the top wrap of Parts 61 70 and 71. Stamp to the rear wrap of Part 7. Top edges of Parts 22 24 25 29 32 38 39 40 70 and 80 are uncut. Internally firmly bound Part 13 the gatherings are detached from one another as are the gatherings of Part 48. Part 34 last few gatherings are detached but present. First few gatherings of Part 65 are detached but present. Binding of Part 73 is cracked to one place. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean with some odd light spots. Tidemarks to the plates of Parts 4 5 7 8 10 13 16 22 32 41 53 and 60. Plate to Parts 7 36 and 77 is detached but present. Part 42 lacking the last 8 leaves of text of 'A Tale of Two Cities' as well as the preface contents and title page for 'A Tale of Two Cities'. Good Chapman and Hall paperback
1846001548London: Bradbury and Evans 1846. xii 311pp 1. Original cloth decorative gilt spine wreath design in gilt to upper cover in blind to lower within blind stamped border primrose endpapers. Spine faded covers slightly faded slightly rubbed and bumped and spine slightly cocked. Internally the text is fairly bright and clean plates with usual browning to edges and occasionally to image two with marginal tears. Uncommon one volume edition of Oliver Twist with twenty-four Cruikshank plates originally published in parts. See Smith page 37. First Thus. Hardback. Good. Illus. by Cruikshank George. 8vo. Bradbury and Evans Hardcover
1850191897London: Bradbury & Evans 1850. Whatever I have tried to do in life I have tried with all my heart First edition in book form attractively bound. Following serialization from May 1849 to November 1850 the work was published in book form that November. Dickens's first novel written in the first person "Copperfield received considerable critical acclaim and before long was widely held to be his greatest work. Undoubtedly it became for very many readers then as now his best-loved novel an opinion in which Dickens himself coincided calling it in a preface to the book of 1867 his 'favourite child'" ODNB. This copy has the first state engraved title page dated 1850 and the second state reading "screwed" rather than "screamed" p. 132. Octavo 218 x 133 mm. Engraved frontispiece and vignette title 38 engraved plates all with tissue guards and after H. K. Browne Phiz. Near-contemporary polished calf green spine label compartments decorated in gilt triple gilt fillet with corner device bordering covers gilt rolls to board edges and turn-ins dark green coated endpapers top edge gilt Part 17 wrappers taken from another copy and bound in. Faint ownership inscription at head of title page. Binding bright couple of marks and surface scratches to covers light rubbing to edges oxidization of plates text largely clean final leaf a little roughly trimmed. A very good copy. Eckel pp. 77-8; Hatton & Cleaver pp. 253-72; Smith I 9. unknown
187047657London: Chapman and Hall 1870. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo. First edition in six original parts in illustrated blue wrappers 14 engraved plates with 'Edwin Drood' advertiser in each issue and other inserts present thus No.1 36pp. 'Drood' ads 2pp yellow sheet cod liver oil. 4pp pink sheet Mutual Life 4pp white sheet catalogue Cassells 8pp yellow sheet catalogue Chapman and Hall 4pp colour printed catalogue Henry Brett distillers. No.2 20pp. 'Drood' ads 4pp white sheet Sewing machines 2pp printed cork ventilating cork hat. No.3 20pp. 'Drood' ads 2pp yellow sheet cod liver oil 2 pp half-size yellow slip All the Year Round 8pp. white sheet catalogue Chapman and Hall 4pp white sheet Chapman Wheat Flour 4pp. white sheet catalogue Cassell. No.4 24pp 'Drood' ads 4pp white sheet Sewing machines 4pp blue sheet Scottish Widows Life Assurance. No.5 20pp 'Drood' ads 2pp off-white sheet Land and Water Weekly 4pp yellow sheet Chapman and Co. No.6 18pp. 'Drood' ads 4pp white sheet Sewing machines. The final part also contains 2pp Dickens ads plus printed title-page and preliminaries for the book-form edition. The Wrapper has a paste-over price of 18d. all others priced 1s. This is Dickens' final unfinished novel. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone novel of mystery fiction. Chipping and loss to the spines around the foot of each clean on the whole and without restoration housed in a black leather and cloth clamshell. Chapman and Hall unknown
1859008799London: Chapman and Hall 1859. First edition first printing first state. Half leather. H. K. Browne "Phiz". This is the first edition first printing first state finely bound. The binding is contemporary half dark red Morocco goatskin featuring a generous spine and corners with crimson cloth sides and double gilt rule transitions. The spine features gilt-decorated raised bands. The 2nd and 4th panels respectively printed with the title and author are bracketed by gilt rules. The 1st 3rd 5th & 6th panels are framed by double gilt rules with a central gilt device. Within gilt rule brackets 1859 is printed in gilt at the heel. The spine ends are gilt-hatched. The contents are bound with gilt top edges red green and gold silk head and tail bands and marbled endpapers. Condition of the binding is very good square and clean with sharp corners and only a hint of color shift to the spine. The rear joint is still relatively secure but a bit tender showing some splitting beginning at the ends and superficial flaking of the leather. The book is housed within a dark red buckram cloth slipcase. <br /> <br />The upper left corner of the front free endpaper verso bears the binders stamp BOUND BY ROOT & SON. The London bindery of W. Root & Son consistently turned-out excellent work both on fine bindings as here and on trade bindings and sets. Packer lists the firm in business in Red Lion Square in 1899-1901 and the December 1942 issue of The Rotarian notes with regret that W. Root had been bombed out of their premises on Paternoster Row during the 1941 Blitz. Credit to David Brass Rare Books <br /> <br />The contents are well-suited to the fine binding notably clean and bright with no appreciable toning or soiling and no spotting. First state of the first printing is confirmed by all issue points identified by Smith Part I 13. at pp. vii 98 134 166 213 and 238 including p.213 mispagination. We cannot verify issue points on the p.ix plate list because this volume was bound without it. There is no indication that it was excised; the omission seems either an original binding flaw or a casualty of the rebinding. The sole previous artifacts of previous ownership are both affixed to the upper center of the front pastedown an original Centenary Testimonial stamp from the 1912 centenary of Dickenss birth above a clipped and presumably facsimile Dickens signature. Two further incidences at the front pastedown require note. One is a small scar to the marbled paper at the lower left corner. Second along the vertical length of the front pastedown gutter there is what appears to be a thin strip of Japanese tissue paper which might notionally be a reinforcement but in this case seems entirely unnecessary as the front joint is manifestly secure both internally and externally. <br /> <br />H. K. Browne Phiz prepared 16 illustrations for A Tale of Two Cities including the frontispiece and the vignette title page. Of note it was the final work which Phiz illustrated for Dickens a collaboration which spanned 23 years and 10 major novels. All 16 illustrations are present in this copy. <br /> <br />As was custom with many Dickens novels A Tale of Two Cities was serialized in eight monthly parts spanning 30 April to 26 November 1859 before publication here in book form on 21 November 1859. <br /> <br />English writer and social critic Charles John Huffam Dickens 1812-1870 is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. A Tale of Two Cities was his second historical novel after Barnaby Rudge. In this novel the second half of which takes place during the French Revolution Dickens set himself the task 'of making a picturesque story rising in every chapter with characters true to nature but whom the story itself should express more than they should express themselves by dialogue' glossed by Forster as meaning that Dickens would be relying 'less upon character than upon incident' Forster 730 731. In its tightly organized and highly romantic melodrama and the near-absence of typical Dickensian humour and humorous characters A Tale of Two Cities certainly stands apart from all his other novels <br /> <br />References: Smith Part I 13.; ODNB; David Brass Rare Books <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover
18530104408Bradbury & Evans London 1853. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition in original cloth. Front and back hinges almost loose; some spots on covers; some foxing; overall a very good copy. Comes in custom-made slipcase. Bradbury & Evans, London hardcover books
