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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
18707417London: Chapman and Hall 1870. First edition. Fine. Octavo 8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm. vii 1 "Illustrations" 190 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens "Engraved by J.H. Baker from a Photograph taken in 1868 by Mason & Co." wood-engraved vignette title by J. Brown and twelve wood-engraved plates two by the firm of Dalziel Brothers ten by Charles Roberts all after Samuel Luke Fildes. Bound from the original parts with all wrappers correct and the vast majority of the advertisements including "The Cork Hat"<br /> <br /> Bound with John Jasper's Secret: Being a Narrative of Certain Events Following and Explaining "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" London: Publishing Offices 1872 the first of many attempts to solve The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The work was written by the New York journalist Henry Morford 1823 - 1881 and his wife Blanche DeVon Patterson Morford 1822 - 1896.<br /> <br /> First English edition following the Philadelphia edition of the previous year bound from the original parts with all wrappers correct and with substantially more advertisements than called for by Sadleir. Octavo 8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm. iv 252 pp. Twenty wood-engraved plates. Page 251 is mispaginated 521 as called for.<br /> <br /> Bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1900 in full green morocco covers ruled in gilt spine with five raised bands decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers top edge gilt others uncut. With the engraved bookplate of celebrated bibliographer and collector Charles Plumptre Johnson on front paste-down. Spine faded to olive green. Housed in a brown cloth slipcase. A Fine clean example.<br /> <br /> "When Dickens died on June 9 1870 he had completed only enough of his manuscript to make up six installments leaving unfinished a work which had commanded the widest attention for its opening numbers and which promised to be one of his most effective and popular books. Although only three parts had been issued prior to his death publication of the work continued and on completion with Part 6 of all available material the vast army of readers was left high and dry as to 'The Mystery.' The Author during the writing of the story never disclosed the ultimate development of his plot" Hatton and Cleaver.<br /> <br /> Smith I 16; Gimbel H330; Sadleir 705. Fine. Chapman and Hall unknown
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
1838000822Londion: Richard Bentley 1838. Half-Leather. First edition first issue in three volumes with the Boz titlepage and the Fireside plate. Illustrated with 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank. R ebound in modern dark half green morocco bindings over marbled paper covered boards. Raised spines with leather spine labels. New end-papers and bound with half-title in volume I only lacks half titl e in volume II not called for in volume III. As usual in rebound copies does not contain list of illustrations page or publishers csatalog. Internally all textual points for first issue called for by Smith. All frontispeices and titles in volume I and II show moderate foxing. In addition one plate in volume I and 3 plates in volume III are moderately foxed with the last two plates in volume III including the Fireside plate heavily foxed. Else all plates and text clean with only sporadic incidental marginal foxing. Overall quite a clean copy as most are found with plates badly browned . Bindings are as new and housed in custom made cloth covered slipcase with the following in gilt lettering on back: "Oliver Twist"/by/Boz/3 vols./First edition/1838. A near fine set of a very desirable title. Sadlier 696; Smith I 4. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Richard Bentley Hardcover
186470168London: Chapman and Hall 1864-1865. 20 original parts bound in 19 as issued. First Edition. Decorated throughout with illustrations by Marcus Stone and with the great bevy of advertisements as issued and bound into the front and rear of each volume. 8vo publisher's original blue printed wrappers now housed in a fold-over case of brown cloth with black morocco lettering label gilt decorated. A very handsome set the sheets uncut and the text and plates all preserved very well and present. The great number of ads are also in excellent condition and include many not often encountered such as the 'Foreign Bank Notes' ad in Part 19/20; page "13" misprinted "31" in No. 10 and noted by Hatton and Cleaver as appearing in a few copies with the yellow announcement slip for "All the Year Round" in No. 8 with the rare yellow slip "At the Bar" "In Number 335" in No. 18 as well as the yellow Mappin & Webb advertisement the volumes are in original condition and with some expert and essentially invisible refurbishment at the spine panels some very light wear at some edges as is to be expected but a truly fine and lovely set in beautifully preserved condition. FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS. With the Mutual Friend advertiser and related matter at the beginning and end of each part and slip explaining the title in Part 1. A great bevy of the advertisements called for by Hatton and Cleaver are present. A fine survival of the original parts issues.<br> This was the second to last book that Dickens would write and the last one that he would actually finish. The years shortly before the publication of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND were fraught with domestic sorrow that would lead to his eventual decline. He separated from his wife Catherine in 1858 after his admiration for the young actress Ellen Ternan strained his already deteriorating marriage. He further had to defend himself against scandal and protest his innocence when wagging tongues of gossip linked his name to his sister-in-law Georgina’s who had served as his housekeeper for many years. He threw his restless energy into increased productivity and public readings of his work both of which were physically and emotionally exhausting. He suffered from recurrent illnesses during the creation of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND but nonetheless managed to maintain the level of genius in his prose that had pervaded his previous works. He died unexpectedly only five years later while he was writing THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD.<br> Like most of Dickens’ work OUR MUTUAL FRIEND was published in monthly serial parts the first in May of 1864 and the last in November of 1865 as here. Chapman and Hall hardcover
18371264371837. London: Chapman and Hall 1837-40. <br /> <br /> 3 vols. 12mo. Six engraved plates by Phiz Hablot K. Browne in each. Original pictorial printed blue paper boards yellow coated endpaers rebacked. Upper board of Young Ladies detached boards darkened and a little soiled scattered foxing. Custom slipcase.<br /> <br /> § First editions of these separately issued volumes. A harmonious set in a custom slipcase unusual in original boards. unknown
1844153231844. . in the original cloth With Illustrations by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall 1844. Original blind-stamped diagonally-ribbed blue cloth.<br/> <br/> First Edition in book form published immediately at the conclusion of the 20-in-19 monthly serial parts issued from January 1843 through July 1844. MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT marks Dickens's return to conventional serial parts with separate plates followed by a single octavo volume as with NICHOLAS NICKLEBY in 1839; since then he had tried weekly parts composed of a single illustrated folded sheet MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK consisting of both THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP and BARNABY RUDGE published all-together in book form in three oversized volumes. CHUZZLEWIT was the first of Dickens's novels to lose readers during serialization; when the publisher Hall accordingly suggested Dickens's fees should be reduced though it never happened it created a rift that was not bridged until Chapman and Hall published A TALE OF TWO CITIES in 1859. Included are the forty plates by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz" two of which had appeared in each part. This copy is in the primary cloth binding for MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT blind-stamped diagonally-ribbed blue cloth. The errata leaf is in the usual 14-line state; the vignette title page has "100£" printed thus and has seven studs along the top edge of the trunk Smith's state "1" -- one of three states without precedence. The volume's condition is very good-plus -- unusually attractive externally with only the slightest of wear at the extremities. The pale yellow endpapers appear to be original with no evidence of anything underneath the paste-downs but in our opinion they are too clean too intact and perhaps a slightly variant hue of yellow -- so we believe they are later in other words that the volume was deftly re-cased but without any external evidence. The "Phiz" plates and the text are quite clean and free of foxing -- though there is a marginal corner repair to the frontispiece. In all this is clearly a better-looking copy than most. All of the thick octavo-format Dickens novels the six others being PICKWICK PAPERS NICHOLAS NICKLEBY DOMBEY AND SON DAVID COPPERFIELD BLEAK HOUSE and LITTLE DORRIT are difficult to obtain in presentable original condition as the bulk of text and plates was too heavy for the simple cloth bindings and delicate endpapers; however in our experience MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT incidentally the only one of the seven to be bound in blue rather than olive-green cloth is one of the toughest. Housed in a handsome morocco-backed cloth clamshell case. Smith I pp 63-67. unknown
183787474London: Chapman and Hall 1837. Fine. Chapman and Hall London 1837 13.50 x 21.30 cm relié First edition illustrated with 43 plates including a frontispiece and title-frontispiece. MCCCXXXVII on title page. 28 plates have captions while the rest have none. Our volume possesses several features attesting to the very first printing: 5 lines at bottom of page 9; p.10 last line mark between the R and U and M of RUM; Line 29 p. 260: ""holding""; p. 341 line 1: L.5 p. 341 Inscriptino; ""inbe-licate""; p. 342 line 5: ""S. Veller""; p. 432 the F of Posthumous papers of is poorly printed. The engraved title is in second state with Tony Weller's name above the porch the first state having simply Veller. Contemporary full brown calf binding. Spine with false raised bands decorated with gilt thick fillets long tools on the bands and blind wavy patterns on the spine. Red calf title label: Pickwick. Wide blind ruled frame on boards doubled with a gilt border. Traces of rubbing. Spine slightly faded. As almost always due to the acidity of the paper the engravings often show browning notably and often a browned frame in the margin. The posthumous papers like all of Dickens's works first appeared in parts from April 1836 to November 1837 then in volume form. Written by a 24-year-old Dickens the work propelled the writer into a glory from which he never descended. The reception of the work was immense and very popular; it was claimed at the time that only the Bible and the works of Shakespeare exceeded The posthumous papers in circulation. Chapman and Hall hardcover
1851138215London: Bradbury & Evans 1852-54 i.e. 1851-53. In the original cloth First editions in book form first issues with the advertisements at the ends of each volume with the relevant points. Dickens's history of England for children "intensely anti-aristocratic and anti-monarchical" ODNB originally appeared anonymously in Household Words between January 1851 and December 1853 with the volumes published in book-form in the December of those years post-dated to the following years. In style subject and composition the book differed from all Dickens's other works. 3 vols large sextodecimo. Each vol. with the half-titles and engraved frontispieces by F. W. Topham. Original reddish-brown cloth gilt titles and decoration to spines blind stamped border and gilt pictorial decoration to front covers marbled endpapers and edges. Contemporary ownership signature to half-title of vol. I. Loss at head of spine of vol. I front hinges just starting some light foxing to contents. A fresh set cloth bright. Eckel p. 128; Smith II 10. hardcover
1836138166London: Chapman and Hall 1836. Dickens defends the poor man's right to a free sabbath First edition of the young Dickens' pseudonymous political pamphlet defending the right of the poor man to a free Sabbath in opposition to a proposed law put forward by Andrew Agnew 7th Baronet Agnew of Lochnaw prohibiting all work and all recreation on a Sunday. This copy differs to the description in Eckel in that there is no "price two shillings" note on the front cover; it matches the other points which distinguish it from the two known facsimiles: the words "Sunday Under Three Heads" beginning page 35 and the spelling "hair" rather than "air" on page 7 line 15. Provenance: Richard Manney book-label to chemise sale of his library at Sotheby's New York 11 October 1991 lot 77; the Lawrence Drizen collection of Charles Dickens Sotheby's 24 September 2019 lot 4. Small octavo. With 3 illustrations by Hablot K. Browne who also designed the heads on the front cover and title page. Original brown wrappers printed in black rebacked. Housed in a blue cloth chemise within blue morocco slipcase spine lettered in gilt. Further light repairs to wrappers contents with light creasing slight stain to top right corner throughout. A very good copy. Eckel p. 102; Gimbel B30. hardcover
1844154882London: Chapman and Hall 1844. Publisher's deluxe binding First edition in book form in the publisher's full morocco binding the most deluxe of the three original binding options offered by the publisher and very scarce. Martin Chuzzlewit was initially issued in monthly parts from December 1842 to July 1844 and in book form on completion. In an advertisement in the final monthly part the publishers announced that it could be purchased in three formats: in cloth for £1 1s. in half morocco with marbled edges for £1 4s. 6d. and in full morocco with gilt edges for £1 6s. 6d. This full morocco binding is much scarcer than copies in the original cloth which are themselves by no means common. This is the first copy of this novel in the full morocco binding that we have handled. The early owner of this copy Howell Blood whose signature dated 1862 appears on a preliminary blank was typical of the customer Chapman and Hall was targeting with their offer of deluxe full morocco binding - the upwardly-mobile middle class with pretensions to have the "best looking" copies of Britain's newest literary sensation. "The sons of small farmers retail traders and small masters. were now benefiting from the reformed grammar schools and recently founded academies. A first generation Witham solicitor Joseph Howell Blood was clerk to the powerful attorney Jacob Howell Pattisson related through his mother's side. By the 1840s Blood had become clerk of the workhouse clerk of the JP's bench and chairman of the Board of Guardians the kind of post that would not have existed in the eighteenth century. By the 1850s he had set up his own legal practice in the town later joined by his eldest son" Davidoff & Hall p. 265. The ownership signature may be that of either Joseph Howell 1806-1876 or his son Howell 1837-1911 who was educated at Rugby and became a clergyman. Chapman and Hall continued to issue first edition sheets for many years after publication binding up copies from their stock as required including in this deluxe format. There are many variations between the morocco bindings of Dickens's novels variations which have not yet been subject to a sustained bibliographical study identifying priority - the marbled endpapers and gilt turn-ins here are indicative of binding in the 1850s. Martin Chuzzlewit is placed by Dickens's biographer Peter Ackroyd as marking "a great change in Dickens's conception of moral characteristics. For the first time Dickens begins to explore the contradictions and difficulties of the contemporary human world; these are no longer figures defined by a single characteristic or animated by the wilful principle of a 'humour' but ones who are seen to change with the changing world to live and grow" Ackroyd p. 392. Dickens wrote to John Forster on 2 November 1843 that "I think Chuzzlewit is a hundred points immeasurably the best of my stories" Pilgrim Letters III pp. 590. Octavo 211 x 132 mm. Engraved frontispiece and vignette title page £ sign not transposed no priority 38 plates by Hablot Knight Browne Phiz. Bound without half-title. Original purple pebble-grain morocco spine lettered in gilt spine bands and covers ruled in blind gilt floral turn-ins marbled endpapers gilt edges. With ink ownership signature of "Howell Blood Witham 1862" to initial binder's blank and his pencil ownership signature to facing binder's blank see note. Slight splits and wear at head of joints but holding firm offsetting to preliminaries plates browned as often early gatherings and first plate somewhat soiled with a few peripheral nicks and chips letterpress leaves afterwards clean small patch of tape repair in gutter of p. 32 6 cm closed tear affecting text without loss to pp. 461/2 3 cm closed tear not affecting text to pp. 603/4. A good copy. Kremers pp. 79-82 288; Smith I.7. Peter Ackroyd Dickens 1990; Leonore Davidoff & Catherine Hall Family Fortunes Men and Women of the English Middle Class 1780-1850 2013. hardcover
1837161400London: Chapman and Hall 1837. Handsome Bayntun-Riviere binding First edition handsomely bound from the original monthly parts of Dickens's first novel which transformed the obscure journalist into England's most famous writer in a matter of months. Octavo 202 x 127 mm. Etched vignette title page frontispiece and 41 plates by Robert Seymour and Hablot Knight Browne Phiz earlier states without captions Buss plates replaced by those of Phiz as usual. Later 20th-century red morocco by Bayntun-Riviere spine lettered in gilt front cover blocked with gilt portrait of Dickens and rear cover with gilt facsimile signature gilt turn-ins marbled endpapers gilt edges. Some light spotting to contents and slight browning to plates as often; a near-fine copy. Hatton and Cleaver p. 1; Smith I.3. unknown
183830435London: Richard Bentley 1838. 2 volumes. First edition first issue first state without the "grotesque" border added at Vol. II p. 238. 13 illustrations by George Cruikshank. In addition and extra are two very finely executed unsigned watercolours at the end of Volume II. 8vo very handsomely bound and signed Bartlett in full red calf the spines beautifully decorated with ornate gilt tooled panels within compartments between raised bands the covers ruled at the borders with double gilt-fillet lines and corner tools. Marbled endpapers and gilt tooled turn-ins. Original cloth covers bound in at the end of each volume. xix 288; ix 263 2 watercolours on two leaves 36 ads. pp. A fine and very handsome copy with some very minor evidence of age. FIRST EDITION. A unique copy with two very fine watercolurs added to the end of Volume II and with the original cloth covers and spine panels bound in. Richard Bentley hardcover
1839858T19DLondon: Chapman and Hall 1839-1877. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". Phiz H. K. Browne; George Cruikshank. A beautiful and very clean and bright set of first editions one later of works by renowned author Charles Dickens. In a tree calf Mansell binding. Five volumes. From the renowned English writer and social critic Charles Dickens. This collection includes: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby first published 1839. First edition mixed state: issue points are as follows those not included have been corrected: Page xiii Chapter XXXV the last four letters not aligned in 'family'; page xiv 'Chapter LXIII' comma after 'others' here; page xvi entry nine 'small-clothes' not hyphenated in the caption; page xvi entry ten 'mulberry' spelt with a single 'r' in the caption; page xvi entry eleven hyphen and apostrophe in 'hair-dresser's' here but not in caption; page thirteen ten lines up comma after 'what'; page one-hundred and sixty-five line twenty-six close spacing in line; page two-hundred and forty-five line ten 'flys' for 'flies'; page two-hundred and seventy line fifteen 'mercie'; page two-hundred and seventy-two line two 'visiters' instead of 'visitors'; page two-hundred and seventy-three line one hyphen in 'twenty-years'; page two-hundred and eighty-eight line seven no full stop after 'Ralph'; page two-hundred and ninety-seven line twenty-two 'incontestible' for 'incontestable'; page three-hundred and seventeen line twenty-one full stop after 'again'; page three-hundred and nineteen line sixteen capital T in 'Think'; page three-hundred and forty-two line sixteen 'conducter' for 'conductor'; page five-hundred and twelve line three capital H in 'How'; page five-hundred and eighty-six line twenty-four 'suprise' for 'surprise'; page six-hundred and eighteen line twenty-three and twenty-four 'Grogswig' for 'Grogzwig'; page xv frontispiece not listed; page xv entry eleven s is slightly high in 'friends'; page xv the last entry 'Kenwigs' here in 'Kengwig's' in the caption. Illustrated with a frontispiece and thirty-nine plates. Collated complete. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit first published 1844. Fist edition Second issue £100 to engraved title rather than 100£ on first issue; 14 line errata as in first. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved title page and thirty-eight plates. Collated complete. Dombey and Son 1848. First Edition Early issue. The vignette title shows the hook on Captain Cuttle's left arm rather than his right; 'delight' rather than 'joy' to page 284 5 lines up from the bottom; no apostrophe in 'aint' on page 14 10 lines up from the bottom; and 'fidgetty' for 'fidgety' on page 26 on line 11. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved title page and thirty-eight plates. Collated complete. Little Dorrit 1857. First Edition Early issue. 'William' for 'Frederick on page 317 line 27; "Rigaud" mistakenly substituted for "Blandois" on pages 469-73. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved title page and thirty-eight plates. Collated complete. Sketches by Boz 1877. New edition complete. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved title page and thirty-eight plates. Collated complete. Illustrated by Phiz or Hablot Knight Browne an English artist and illustrator and George Cruikshank a British cartoonist and illustrator. Bound by Mansell. Bound in full tree calf. Externally very smart with light shelf wear and minor rubbing to the extremities. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Bound by Mansell. Very Good Indeed Chapman and Hall hardcover
1850193266London: Bradbury & Evans 1850. Whatever I have tried to do in life I have tried with all my heart First edition bound from the original parts as serialized from May 1849 to November 1850 incorporating the front wrapper from Part 15. The novel 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 219 x 136 mm. Engraved frontispiece and vignette title page 38 engraved plates all after H. K. Browne Phiz. Near-contemporary dark red morocco spine lettered in gilt and ruled in gilt and blind gilt rules to sides and corners marbled sides and endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed original front wrapper from Part 15 bound in at end. Armorial bookplate of Peter Stubs a member of the Harleian Society who participated in the arms-related court case John Stubs and Peter Stubs v Elizabeth Stubs 1861. Spine sunned rubbing to covers board edges lightly worn front inner hinge split but sound occasional marks and short marginal tears. A very good copy. Eckel pp. 77-8; Hatton & Cleaver pp. 253-72; Smith I 9. unknown
185915167"It was the best of times it was the worst of times." A TALE OF TWO CITIES in All The Year Round Volumes 1 2 & 3 complete Volume 1 April 30 1859 thru Volume 70 August 25 1860 first edition fine copies with near fine contents rebound in half leather with raised spines and leather labels with gold-gilt lettering. A nice set free from any foxing. The true first appearance in print of this most famous work. Also contains 6 installments of THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER & HUNTED DOWN complete by Dickens 3 episodes of Eugne Franois Vidocq An early essay concerning Darwin's NATURAL SELECTION & the first appearance in print of THE WOMAN IN WHITE complete by Wilkie Collins. Chapman & Hall hardcover
1866151901July 3 1866. Autograph envelope signed by famed English novelist Charles Dickens. The envelope measures 2.75 inches by 4.75 inches addressed in the hand of Dickens to the actor Drinkwater Meadows Esquire Prairie Cottage Barnes Green Barnes SW with Dickens' signature at lower left. Postmark London July 3 1866. The recipient Drinkwater Meadows a well-regarded actor played roles in several theatrical adaptations of Dickens' works including "Martin Chuzzlewit" 1844 and 'The Cricket on the Hearth" 1845. He died in 1869. In near fine condition. Minor loss to signature. Framed with an oval portrait of a young Dickens. The entire piece measures 16 inches by 11 inches. Charles Dickens was one of the most influential English novelists of the nineteenth century known for his detailed portrayals of Victorian society and social inequality. Born in 1812 in Portsmouth England Dickens drew inspiration from his difficult childhood experiences including poverty and child labor which later shaped many of his literary themes. His novels such as Oliver Twist A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations examined issues including class division industrialization and the treatment of the poor. Dickens combined memorable characters with social criticism helping to bring attention to the hardships faced by many people during the Industrial Revolution. Through his writing he became both a major literary figure and an important commentator on the social conditions of nineteenth-century England. unknown
1845148129London: Chapman and Hall/Bradbury & Evans 1845-1848. First editions of the four final novellas in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Book series. Octavo 4 volumes bound in full morocco by Root & Son with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt engraved frontispieces and additional vignette titles. The set contains: a first edition second issue of The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year. London: Chapman and Hall 1845 1844 with the publisher's advertisement for A Christmas Carol; with the half-title; 13 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title by Maclise Doyle Leech and Stanfield; second state of the vignette title. First edition second issue of The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Bradbury and Evans for the author 1846 1845 with the half-title; 14 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title by Leech Doyle Stanfield Maclise and Landseer; with three-line italic heading for Oliver Twist on p.175 of the publisher's ads at rear. First edition later issue of The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury and Evans 1846 with the half-title; 13 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title by Maclise Doyle Leech and Stanfield; 2pp. advertisements at rear. First edition of The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. London: Bradbury and Evans 1848; 16 illustrations including frontispiece and vignette title by Leech Stanfield Tenniel and Stone. Original covers bound in at rear of each volume. In near fine condition. Following the immense success of A Christmas Carol which first appeared in December of 1843 Dickens published four other Christmas tales: The Chimes 1844 The Cricket on the Hearth 1845 The Battle of Life 1846 and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain 1848; these were secular conversion tales which acknowledged the progressive societal changes of the previous year and highlighted those social problems which still needed to be addressed. The public eagerly bought the later books each published in an attractive bright red cloth with fine gilt vignettes and elaborate illustrations. Chapman and Hall/Bradbury & Evans hardcover
669Early printing. "Screwed" instead of "screamed" on page 132 line 20. All other early issue points present. A very early printing but not quite first. <br /> Narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield detailing his adventures in his journey from infancy to maturity. unknown
1884309191London: Chapman and Hall 1884. Facsimile edition one of three printed on vellum. Woodcut portrait vignettes on half-title and title-page woodcut frontispiece and two plates with blank vellum guards by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". iv v i 49 4 blank 1 ads pp. 4to. Contemporary three-quarter red morocco. Joints repaired flaw in margin of one leaf. Facsimile edition one of three printed on vellum. Woodcut portrait vignettes on half-title and title-page woodcut frontispiece and two plates with blank vellum guards by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". iv v i 49 4 blank 1 ads pp. 4to. Facsimile edition printed on vellum according to Gimbel "one of only three copies that were printed on vellum." Plain paper copies were issued in wrappers with the text and imprint: "A Reproduction in Exact Fac-simile of the Excessively Rare Original. London: J.W. Jarvis 28 King William Street Strand 1884." As with the Gimbel vellum copy this copy is rebound and without wrappers. The Gimbel catalogue identifies copies with and without 4 leaves of front- and end-matter containing an introduction though to be by T.J. Wise and Jarvis ads and notes "another impression" with the heading "Sunday Under Three Heads" on p. 35. The present copy is without the the introduction and ads though the original Chapman and Hall ads are reproduced at the end and has the heading on p. 35.<br /> Sunday Under Three Heads published under the pseudonym Timothy Sparks was "a pamphlet directed against the Sunday Observance Billl an Evangelical measure which would have severly curtailed the Sunday amusements of the labouring and middle classes" Ackroyd p. 185. Gimbel B31 cf. 8th copy. Provenance: Lewis A. Bird bookplate Chapman and Hall unknown
18376259London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition. First edition in book form first issue with title-page to Vol. I dated 1836. Two octavo volumes 8 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 206 x 130 mm. iii-vviviiviii 12-384; vi 350. Twenty-eight engraved plates by various artists including Robert Seymour and Robert William Buss. Publisher's dark green bead-grain cloth over boards covers with arabesque design stamped in blind spines lettered in gilt all edges uncut coated yellow end-papers. Covers of volume I with some damp-staining expertly rebacked with original spine laid down; covers of volume II with joints expertly repaired and end-papers renewed with matching paper. With the bookplate of Eric S. Quayle on front paste-down of volume I. Tipped in at the end is a mid-twentieth century typed booksellers description G.F. Sims of Hurst Reading England of the book. The plates and text quite clean and relatively free from the usual foxing. An excellent set of the scarce first issue from the library of the celebrated collector and bibliographer Eric Quayle. Housed in an early twentieth century olive green morocco over green cloth board slipcase with central divider. Two spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments.<br /> <br /> "The peculiar purpose of the 'Library of Fiction' is to put is readers in possession at a moderate price of a series of Original Tales and Sketches all carefully selected from among a host of candidates; and many of them written by Authors of the very loftiest pretensions in the field of imaginative composition" publisher's "Address" Volume I. Contains two early pieces by Dickens in Volume I both attributed to "Boz" and printed in the first and second series respectively of Sketches by Boz: "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" pages 1-18 with two plates engraved by Landells after Robert Seymour the first illustrator of Pickwick; and "A Little Talk About Spring and Sweeps" pages 113-119 with one plate by J. Jackson after R.W. Buss Pickwick's second illustrator. <br /> <br /> "Dickens' first article in the first number of The Library of Fiction "The Tuggses at Ramsgate" Vol. I pp. 1-18 was published on the selfsame day as the first number of the Pickwick Papers: 31 March 1836. Like Pickwick the story is set partly in and partly outside London and involves common London types: the fatuous nouveau riche Tuggses the mercenary Waterses and various impertinent and whimsical carriage drivers and land." Philip V. Allingham Victorian Web. "Dickens' other article in the Library of Fiction "A Little Talk About Spring and Sweeps" Vol. I pp. 113-119 was first published in May 1836. It sets out to depict the traditional spring celebrations in the streets that Boz remembers so well from his childhood. These festivities in the shape of spontaneous street performances and merry dances of young sweeps have by now deteriorated into a fake and shabby charade that has nothing authentic about it. Boz laments the fact that nowadays the dancers are no longer real child sweeps but actors who produce a contrived and ungainly performance. Boz's description of the celebrations now and in the past is interrupted by a lengthy digression into the biographies and careers of certain young chimney sweeps the account of whose mysterious original introduces an aura of imaginative speculation into the sketch" Dickens and the Imagined Child.<br /> <br /> Originally issued in fourteen monthly parts from April 1836-May 1837 with two additional parts issued in June and July 1837. Rare in the original cloth neither Sadleir nor Wolff had examples in the cloth.<br /> <br /> Eckel pp. 137-9. Gimbel E122. Chapman and Hall unknown
1853031714London: Bradbury and Evans 1853. Book. Illus. by H. K. Browne. Very Good. Three-Quarter Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 3/4 purple morocco leather gilt stamped spine with five raised bands; marbled boards and endpapers. True first edition first issue first state. Bound from original parts with stab holes visible at the inner margins. Illustrated half title frontis vignette title pp. v xiii-xvi 1 - 624 pages. Issued from the first printing with "compu" on pp.19 and "chair" for "hair" pp. 209. Includes 40 inserted plates including 10 dark plates. Bradbury & Evans imprint on the title and vignette title later changed to Chapman & Hall. Eckel 80-81; Podeshi 130-1. Inside some age toning; some spotting on plates with marginal browning foxing. Interior hinges strengthened with tape. Otherwise this a very good copy. Bradbury and Evans Hardcover
18677032London: Smith Elder and Co 1867. Five volumes from the personal library of Charles Dickens. With a letter of provenance from 1931 from English Book Dealer C. Howes. Measuring approximately 10" x 6.75". <br /> <br /> These volumes are in fair condition. Heavy surface wear and damage to the boards and leather spines. Moisture damage affecting all boards. Charles Dickens's library was purchased by the bookseller Sotheran - who put these labels on the pastedowns of each book.<br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #P3-26. Smith, Elder and Co unknown
4301Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 2006. Collector's Edition. Collector's edition bound in genuine leather. Complete in 21 volumes. Measuring approximately 9.25" x 6.25".<br /> <br /> These volumes are in very good plus condition. Gilt lettering and design on spine boards and edges are full and vivid. Minor surface wear to boards and edges. "Sketches by Boz" has an all silver spine instead of gilt. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #N5-59. Easton Press unknown
1848898London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. First Edition First Issue. Finely Bound by Bayntun-Riviere. Near Fine. HK Browne. 8.5 x 5.25 finely bound in gilt-ruled gold crushed morocco with raised bands; aeg 624 pp pages/illustrations lightly toned and spotted as usual else a beautifully bound FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE with errata leaf and such points as "figetty" on p26 "amiliar" on p70 "Capatin" on p324 no period at the end of the last line on p582 and hook on left arm in title page vignette Smith: Heritage Bookshop. Binding by Bayntun-Riviere though not noted as such. <br /> Note: This book comes from a Dickens collection all in the same full leather bindings. A few have the Bayntun-Riviere stamp others do not. A beautiful example. Bradbury and Evans unknown
