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Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi edited by "Boz". With illustrations by George Cruikshank.

1838LCS-186426Very rare first edition of the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Charles Dickens 1812-1870.2 volumes in-12 of: I/ portrait xix pp. 1 leaf 288 pp. 6 plates; II/ frontispiece ix 263 pp. 5 plates. Long-grain orange morocco triple gilt fillet framing the boards raised bands on spine with decorations green and olive morocco title and volume labels gilt inner roll slipcase. Bayntun Bath.187 x 110 mm.First edition of the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi 1779-1837 published by Charles Dickens.First printing without the border added to the plate The last song in the second volume.Charles Dickens 1812-1870 who began his career as a simple stenographer later became one of the most popular English novelists with Oliver Twist Pickwick or David Copperfield. In his novels inspired by his painful childhood he recounts the fate of young heroes who seek a better life and try to forget their miserable origins. "Master of an ambiguous world whose reality constantly opens onto dream" he created characters guided by hope grappling with a world which contaminated by the capitalist system suffers from a social ill.A little-known Dickens.In this biographical novel which recounts the strange adventures of the greatest English clown of the nineteenth century the young Boz already reveals his astonishing storytelling talent.Here is a work by Dickens almost unknown in France which was partially translated in 1951 in a confidential edition now out of print and unfindable Éditions du Globe. The story of this manuscript is quite surprising and it was by a curious twist that Dickens became its official author: the clown Grimaldi spent the year before his death writing the complete story of his life then entrusted the voluminous manuscript to a friend who set about condensing it before presenting it to a first publisher. This publisher taking advantage of the freedom afforded by the author's death immediately brought it to Charles Dickens. In 1838 Charles Dickens was only twenty-five years old but under the pseudonym "Boz" was already a beloved author of the public. The Sketches published in the newspapers and magazines whose success they had helped build and the Pickwick Papers so quickly popular had established his reputation within three or four years. The owner of the Memoirs of Grimaldi therefore had every reason to think he would benefit greatly if Dickens entirely reworked them deploying his slightly mocking simplicity his shrewd good-nature his profound knowledge of vulgar manners popular slang and disreputable eccentricities. Dickens for his part felt that this was a fortunate subject for his pen and that it would not lower itself by associating with the memories of a clowntrue but a clown such as had scarcely been seen before.The life of the great Joe his adventurous career indeed offers us some of the most curious aspects of British manners of the life of its theatres and its underworld. Chance by sowing many strange incidents dramatic encounters and bizarre twists in the existence of this performer seems to have delighted in giving him an extraordinary fate and thus doubly marking him out for biographical attention. And in many ways Dickens no doubt saw in this child prodigy and pure-hearted artist a kind of double of himself.The edition is illustrated with a portrait of the author engraved on copper by William Greatbach 1792-1878 after a drawing by Samuel Raven 1775-1847 as well as 12 plates outside the text also copper-engraved by George Cruikshank 1792-1878.Fine copy printed on vellum paper in a binding by Bayntun bookbinder of Bath.FRANCAISEdition originale fort rare des Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi de Charles Dickens 1812-1870.2 volumes in-12 de : I/ portrait xix pp. 1 f. 288 pp. 6 planches ; II/ frontispice ix 263 pp. 5 planches. Maroquin orange à grain long triple filet doré en encadrement sur les plats dos à nerfs ornés pièces de titre et de tomaison de maroquin vert et olive roulette dorée intérieure tranches dorées étui Bayntun Bath.187 x 110 mm.Édition originale des Mémoires de Joseph Grimaldi 1779-1837 publiée par Charles Dickens.Premier tirage sans la bordure ajoutée à la planche The last song du second volume.Charles Dickens 1812-1870 qui a débuté sa carrière comme simple sténographe est devenu par la suite l'un des romanciers anglais les plus populaires avec Oliver Twist Pickwick ou David Copperfield. Dans ses romans inspirés de son enfance douloureuse il raconte le destin de jeunes héros qui sont en quête d'une existence meilleure et cherchent à oublier leur origine miséreuse. " Maître d'un monde ambigu dont la réalité donne sans cesse sur le rêve " il a créé des personnages guidés par l'espoir aux prises avec un monde qui contaminé par le système capitaliste souffre d'un mal social.Un Dickens méconnu.Dans ce roman biographique qui relate les étranges aventures du plus grand clown anglais du XIXe siècle le jeune Boz laisse déjà percevoir son étonnant talent de conteur.Voici un ouvrage de Dickens à peu près ignoré en France qui fut partiellement traduit en 1951 dans une édition confidentielle aujourd'hui épuisée et introuvable Éditions du Globe.L'histoire de ce manuscrit est assez surprenante et c'est par un curieux détour que Dickens en devint l'auteur officiel : le clown Grimaldi employa l'année qui précéda sa mort à rédiger l'histoire complète de sa vie puis confia le volumineux manuscrit à un ami qui s'appliqua à le condenser avant de le présenter à un premier éditeur. Celui-ci profitant de la liberté que lui rendait la mort de l'auteur les porta immédiatement à Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens en 1838 n'avait que vingt-cinq ans mais sous le pseudonyme de " Boz " était déjà un auteur chéri du public. Les Sketches publiés dans les journaux et magazines dont ils avaient fait le succès les Pickwick Papers si promptement populaires avaient assis en trois ou quatre ans sa réputation. Le propriétaire des Mémoires de Grimaldi eut donc toutes les raisons de penser qu'il en tirerait un excellent parti si Dickens les remaniait entièrement en y déployant sa simplicité un peu narquoise sa bonhomie rusée sa profonde connaissance des murs vulgaires de l'argot populaire et des excentricités mal famées. Dickens de son côté sentit que c'était là pour sa plume un heureux sujet et qu'elle ne dérogerait pas en s'associant aux souvenirs d'un clown il est vrai mais d'un clown comme on n'en avait guère vu jusqu'alors.La vie du grand Joe son aventureuse carrière nous livre en effet quelques-uns des plus curieux aspects des murs britanniques de la vie de ses théâtres et de ses bas-fonds. Le hasard en semant bien des incidents étranges des rencontres dramatiques des péripéties bizarres dans l'existence de ce comédien semble s'être complu à lui faire un sort extraordinaire et à le désigner ainsi doublement à l'attention des biographes. Et par bien des aspects Dickens vit sans doute en cet enfant prodige et en cet artiste au cur pur une sorte de double de lui-même.L'édition est illustrée d'un portrait de l'auteur gravé sur cuivre par William Greatbach 1792-1878 d'après un dessin de Samuel Raven 1775-1847 ainsi que de 12 compositions hors texte également gravées sur cuivre de George Cruikshank 1792-1878.Bel exemplaire imprimé sur papier vélin en reliure de Bayntun relieur anglais de Bath. Richard Bentley.

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I shall be glad to investigate the subject to which you so obligingly invite my attention myself." - A 16 November 1868 autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens accepting the invitation of a doctor to tour East London a trip during which Dickens discovered and subsequently championed the newly-founded East London Children's Hospital

1868008527Gads Hill Place Kent 1868. This is a 16 November 1868 autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens 18 months before his death to a London doctor making arrangements to view a new childrens hospital. Dickens would ultimately champion the hospital in print helping raise funds for an eventual move. The letter is testimony that At his death Dickens was regarded not simply as a great writer but also as a champion of the poor and downtrodden who had striven hard throughout his whole career for greater social justice and a better kinder world. The letter entirely in Dickens's hand on the recto of a single sheet of his Gads Hill Place stationery is dated Monday Sixteenth November 1868 and written to Dr. John Murray addressed as Dear Sir but identified in Dickenss hand at the lower left. The body of the letter reads: I shall be glad to investigate the subject to which you so obligingly invite my attention myself. Would it suit your convenience to take me with you next Saturday to some of the places where you have been most impressed by what you have seen If so have the kindness to let me know at what hour on Saturday you will call for me at the office of "all the Year Round" 26 Wellington Street Strand. If you will make your own appointment I will place myself at your disposal." The valediction in two lines reads: "Faithfully Yours" preceding the signature "Charles Dickens" with Dickenss characteristic succession of multiple underlining flourishes. The letter came to us framed from a private Dickens collection and has been framed for no less than 32 years; the sealed verso of the frame features the sticker of autograph dealer Paul C. Richards who died in 1993. The antique gilt wood frame measures 15.5 x 12.375 inches. The letter is double-matted to 6.5 x 4.5 inches in red over gilt beside and to the left of a photographic portrait of Dickens. Though his name is not uncommon in London then or now we speculate that the recipient may have been surgeon John Murray 1798-1873. What is clear from the letter is that Murray caught the attention of Dickens that they met as planned and that as a result Dickens was prompted to take an active supporting interest in the East London Hospital for Children which had just been established that year in Ratcliffe Cross. In the 19 December issue of All the Year Round Dickens published an article in which he wrote at length in evocative Dickensian detail about the Hospital: Down by the rivers bank in Ratcliffe my eyes rested on the inscription across the road East London Childrens Hospital. I went across and went straight in I found the Childrens Hospital established in an old sail-loft or storehouse of the roughest nature In its seven-and-thirty beds I saw but little beauty but I saw the sufferings both of infancy and childhood temporarily assuaged I heard the patients answering to pet playful names the light touch of a delicate lady laid bare the wasted sticks of arms for me to pity; and the claw-like little hands as she did so entwined themselves lovingly around her wedding-ring. Prior to publication of his article Dickens wrote again to Murray on the 1st of December specifically mentioning my paper on the East London Children's Hospital and informing Murray that he had sent a proof to the Hospitals founders. Dickens is credited for helping raise funds for the Hospital which after Dickenss death facilitated the Hospitals 1875 move to a new building in Shadwell. The hospital endured variously changing names and locations until the Second World War. All the Year Round from whose offices Dickens began his tour with Dr. Murray and whose pages Dickens used to advocate for the East London Childrens Hospital was a weekly literary journal edited by Dickens that began publishing in 1859 and after his death was edited by his son Charles Dickens Jr. Sources: ODNB; NHS Trust; Free Library of Philadelphia unknown

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Charles Dickens novel; Alec Guinness playwright starringABAA

Great Expectations Original script for the 1939 play

1939146992N.p.: N.p. 1939. Draft script for the 1939 play. Carbon typescript on onionskin. With the name of actress May Hallatt in holograph ink on front wrapper and holograph annotations in pencil throughout. We could not verify her involvement in the 1939 production although it seems reasonable to infer from this script that the prolific stage and screen actress indeed had been possibly as stand-in for the role of Miss Havisham as many of the annotations in the script relate to that character. In 1939 during a period of unemployment Alec Guinness with the aid of his wife artist playwright and actress Merula Sylvia Salaman began writing a stage adaptation of the 1861 Charles Dickens classic. Upon completion Guinness shared the manuscript with friends who decided to form an actor's cooperative the Actor's Company with the intention of putting on the production. It was also at this time September 1939 that Great Britain declared war on Germany commencing World War II. The play premiered in December 1939 under the direction of George Devine at Rudolf Steiner Hall. Marius Goring performed the role of Pip with Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham Yvonne Mitchell as the young Estella Roy Emerton as Magwitch and Vera Poliakoff as the adult Estella. Guinness and Salaman sitting opposite one another on stage were the narrators as well as performing the roles of Herbert Pocket and Biddy respectively. The play received favorable reviews particularly from Sunday Times critic James Agate and did reasonably well but the strain of the war prevented it from moving to a larger theatre and the production as well as the Actor's Company went bust. The following year a new production of Guinness' "Great Expectations" began but was then abandoned when Guinness refused to take part. Guinness credits the play for having drawn him from the stage onto film. Upon Salaman's insistence an actress friend of hers Kay Walsh and her husband then thirty-one-year-old film editor David Lean saw the production which directly inspired Lean to take the story to the screen and make the classic 1946 film with Guinness and Hunt reviving their stage roles for the screen. Brown titled wrapper. Title page present with credits for author Charles Dickens and playwright Alec Guinness. 122 leaves with last page of text numbered 34. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus some creasing and damp staining bound with ribbon. N.p. unknown books

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DICKENS Charles contributor; SEYMOUR Robert illustrator; BUSS Robert William illustratorABAA

Library of Fiction or Family Story-Teller; The

04683London: Chapman and Hall 1836. First Edition First Issue Set of The Library of Fiction With Two Sketches by "Boz" and Plates by Seymour and Buss DICKENS Charles contributor. The Library of Fiction or Family Story-Teller; Consisting of Original Tales Essays and Sketches of Character. With Fourteen Illustrations. Vol. I. II. London: Chapman and Hall 1836-1837. 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. "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. Rare in the original cloth neither Sadleir nor Wolff had examples in the cloth. 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. "The peculiar purpose of the â€˜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. Originally issued in fourteen monthly parts from April 1836-May 1837 with two additional parts issued in June and July 1837. Eckel pp. 137-9. Gimbel E122. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836 unknown books

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Dickens Charles: Cornwall Barry pseud of B. W. ProctorABAA

ENGLISH SONGS AND OTHER SMALL POEMS

1844WRCLIT64147London: Edward Moxon 1844. 12mo. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Binding rather rubbed and edgeworn otherwise a good copy with Charles Dickens' lion bookplate and the Gadshill label at the front and with the bookplate of John Gribbel at the back. Old bookseller's description tipped in front. The second edition in which Procter took the opportunity "to strike out about forty of the poems of inferior quality contained in the old volume and to introduce in their stead nearly seventy Poems in rhyme besides a considerable quantity of Dramatic verse" - "Preface to the Present Edition" dated "April 13th 1844." A presentation copy inscribed on the title-page: "Charles Dickens / with the best Regards of / The Author." In THE DICKENS CIRCLE New York 1919 p. 169 J.W.T. Ley states: "We may take it as quite certain that Dickens came to know Procter through Forster. And from the first the novelist and the poet were on the best of terms. It was natural. Procter was a peculiarly lovable man with a peculiar gentleness 'childlike without being childish and an unfailing buoyancy of spirit.' Such a man could not but have a strong attraction for Dickens. From the beginning he loved the company of his friend who in the 'forties was one of the innermost circle with Forster and Maclise and Ainsworth. Procter was one of the little company at the Greenwich dinner in 1842 and until he grew too old he was twenty-five years older than Dickens they had frequent social meetings. For HOUSEHOLD WORDS and ALL THE YEAR ROUND he wrote a great deal and Dickens valued his contributions very highly indeed . . . As Procter grew old Dickens saw less and less of him but the friendship remained as deep as ever and in 1854 it was peculiarly sweetened by the discovery that the 'Miss Mary Berwick' who had contributed verses to HOUSEHOLD WORDS which had won Dickens's unstinted praise was really his old friend's daughter Adelaide whom he had known from her childhood." Edward Moxon hardcover books

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Master Humphrey's Clock

184068828London: Chapman and Hall 1840. CATTERMOLE George; BROWNE Hablot Knight. BROWNE Hablot Knight illustrator. CATTERMOLE George illustrator. Master Humphrey's Clock. by "Boz" London: Chapman and Hall 1840. Full Description: DICKENS Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. London: Chapman and Hall 1840-1841 i.e. 4 April 1840-27 November 1841. First edition first issue in the eighty-eight weekly parts. Large octavo 10 3/4 x 7 inches; 274 x 180 mm. i-viii 12-306; i-vvi 12-306; i-vvi 12-426. With all preliminary matter 3 frontispieces title-pages prefaces for 3 volumes in parts 26 52 and 88. Part 26 also with dedication page. With two frontispieces 130 woodcuts and twenty-five initials by Browne; one frontispiece and thirty-eight woodcuts by Cattermole; one woodcut each by S. Williams and Maclise. Original white wrappers designed by Cattermole. Some parts with stab-holes. Wrappers generally fresh some with a small amount of foxing or toning. Part 27 with a bit more toning to front wrapper. Part 40 with some toning and small ink spots to front wrapper. Some parts with covers tender at creases. Contemporary ownership signature to front wrapper of parts 118 24 and 42. Part 25 with contemporary ownership signature on first page of text pg. 289. A small unobtrusive contemporary bookseller sticker to the bottom of the front wrapper of parts 48 49 51 52 53 55 57 58 60 61 62 and 63. Most parts are quite crisp and bright. An excellent copy overall housed in a full green cloth clamshell spine lettered in gilt. With previous owner Dickens collector Harvey C. Knowles bookplate inside clamshell. The first Dickens' work to be issued in weekly parts it was also issued in monthly parts and as a three- and a one-volume work; the rarest issue being the weekly parts. Eckel pp. 67-8. Gimbel A49. Hatton and Cleaver pg 163. HBS 68828. $3500. Chapman and Hall unknown

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Personal History of David Copperfield The

06301London: Bradbury and Evans 1849. A Good Working Set Of Charles Dickens's 'David Copperfield' in the Original Parts" DICKENS Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. With illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans 1850 i.e. May 1849-November 1850. First edition in the original monthly parts twenty numbers bound in nineteen; first issue following all but one of the points in Hatton & Cleaver. Octavo. 8 7/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 226 x 142 mm. i-vii viii ix x-xii xiii xiv xv-xvi 1 2-624. Forty inserted plates including frontispiece and vignette title. The "Advertiser" in part VIII without the erratum "Lile" for "Life." Complete as issued but without the rare Letts's Diary fold-out advertisement and the eight sample diary pages in Part VIII. Most other called-for advertisements are present with the following exceptions: the eight-page Copperfield Advertiser lacking in Part VII; in Part VIII the Copperfield Advertiser with top half of pp. 5/6 cut away; in Part XIV the Copperfield Advertiser with top right-hand corner of pp. 5/6 cut away. Publisher's light blue pictorial wrappers somewhat chipped and soiled overall with several crude repairs. Plates show the expected foxing typical of this title in places rather heavy. Early owner's ink stamp appears on the first page of text in eight of the parts. Housed in a quarter green calf over green cloth slipcase spine with five shallow raised bands red and blue calf labels lettered in gilt in compartments. A good "working" copy of Dickens's most autobiographical novel with chipped and repaired wrappers plates intact and with additional ephemeral advertisements of considerable interest. Part XIX/XX contains eight unrecorded pages of contemporary ads: Tallis's Acting Edition of the Plays of Shakespeare 2 pp.; The Architectural Antiquities of Athens 2 pp.; Hymns for Sunday Schools 2 pp.; and The Counting House Companion 2 pp. These are not recorded in Hatton & Cleaver as part of the standard collation but are authentic period ephemera almost certainly inserted by the publisher/distributor at the time of issue. Such survivals-though not "required"-are scarce and add bibliographic interest illustrating the common practice of Bradbury & Evans and Chapman & Hall before them in allowing other publishers' advertisements to ride on Dickens's enormous circulation. David Copperfield is among the scarcer Dickens titles to find in first issue parts especially in copies retaining the original wrappers. References: Hatton & Cleaver pp. 253-272; Podeschi Gimbel Collection A121; Sadleir Excursions in Victorian Bibliography p. 261. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849 unknown

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The Adventures of Oliver Twist

183842820882FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM FIRST ISSUE. Oliver Twist was Dickens's first book to be published in the three-decker format. There was no parts edition until 1846. Instead the novel was published serially in the magazine Bentley's Miscellany. Before the magazine publication was completed Bentley decided to issue the book edition likely an attempt to sell the book to those who could not wait to see the conclusion in the magazine.As a result George Cruikshank who contributed 24 illustrations for the work had to complete the final plates in haste. Dickens did not review them until publication was at hand and he found that he objected to the "Fireside" plate in vol. III. Cruikshank obliged by replacing the engraving with the so-called "Church" plate which was not completed in time for the first copies issued on November 9. This is one of those first issue copies with the "Fireside" plate. The second November 16 and later issues and the magazine publication contain the replacement illustration. Dickens also disliked the use of the pseudonym "Boz" on the title-page though it had been used in his Sketches and Pickwick Papers. This set has the preferred "Boz" title-pages; the later issue has cancel title-pages bearing Dickens's name."Oliver Twist was originally conceived as a satire on the new poor law of 1834 which herded the destitute and the helpless into harshly run union workhouses and which was perceived by Dickens as a monstrously unjust and inhumane piece of legislation he was still fiercely attacking it in Our Mutual Friend in 1865. Once the scene shifted to London however Oliver Twist developed into a unique and compelling blend of a 'realistic' tale about thieves and prostitutes and a melodrama with strong metaphysical overtones. The pathos of little Oliver the first of many such child figures in Dickens the farcical comedy of the Bumbles the sinister fascination of Fagin the horror of Nancy's murder and the powerful evocation of London's dark and labyrinthine criminal underworld all helped to drive Dickens's popularity to new heights" ODNB.Three volumes. Fine scarlet morocco by Bayntun a.e.g. facsimile of Dickens's signature on upper boards. With the half-title in vol. I without the half title in vol. II none called for in vol. III. . Light foxing to titles. A fine set. Bentley hardcover

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The Christmas Books: The Chimes; The Battle of Life; Cricket on the Hearth; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.

1845149771London: Chapman and Hall/Bradbury & Evans 1845-1848. First editions of the four final novellas in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Book series. Octavo original cloth with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panels all edges gilt frontispiece title page vignettes. The set contains: 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 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 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 later issue 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. In very good condition. Ownership plate to the front pastedown of The Battle of Life and to the front free endpaper of The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. 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

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.

1838149369London: Chapman and Hall 1838-39. First edition in the original monthly parts mixed issue of this titular hero’s journey through hardship. Octavo original blue-green wrappers 20 parts in 19 volumes dated April 1838-October 1839. Illustrated with an engraved portrait of Dickens by Finden after Daniel Maclise and 38 out of 39 black and white etched plates by "Phiz" or Hablot Knight Browne. Lacking second plate in No. IV "Nicholas astonishes Mr. Squeers and family" and supplied with a duplicate of first plate from No. II "Nicholas starts for Yorkshire" plate 16 in No. VIII first steel; plate 23 in No. XII with "Mr."; plate 29 in No. XV fourth impression. Mixed issues with second state "sister" on line 17 p. 123 in No. IV and with first state "latter" on line 6 p. 160 in No. V.; first four plates with publisher's imprint; lacking half-title in final number. Additional ads not called for in Hatton & Cleaver: front of No. XII "The Addresses of the Right Hon. Sir J. Graham."; front of No. XIII "Just Published.Lanercost"; seven additional leaves of ads at rear of No. XVIII. Lacking the following ads: all in No. I; ads following plates and rear ads in No. III; last ad at rear of No. VII; first and third of rear ads in No. VIII; Charles Tilt yellow slip in No. XI "in many copies" per Hatton & Cleaver; final rear ad in No. XII; "Mary Ashby" slip sometimes found in No. XVI final rear ad in same; first second and fourth rear ads in Nos. XIX/XX. In very good condition with scattered wear and soiling spine of No. XV repaired. Housed in a custom box. Nicholas Nickleby follows the struggles of the titular hero as he seeks to protect his family from exploitation after his father’s death. Sent to work at the abusive Dotheboys Hall by his cruel uncle Ralph Nickleby Nicholas rebels and embarks on a journey of self-discovery encountering both kindness and corruption. The novel critiques social injustices particularly in education and labor while emphasizing themes of resilience morality and the triumph of good over evil. Through satire and melodrama Dickens exposes the harsh realities of Victorian society while celebrating compassion and integrity. Chapman and Hall unknown

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