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183799840London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition in book form of Dickens' first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands marbled endpapers with the first state Veller title page with 43 engraved plates by Seymour and Browne and five Buss plates which Dickens requested to be removed in subsequent printings. In very good condition. Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass the lover Tupman the sportsman Winkle and above all by that quintessentially English Quixote Mr Pickwick and his cockney Sancho Panza Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election via the Fleet debtors prison characters and incidents sprang to life from Dickenss pen to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention. Chapman and Hall hardcover
291365Philadelphia. hardcover. very good. 40 volumes bound in 20. Illustrations with lettered tissue guards.Thick 8vo 3/4 burgundy morocco over marbled boards ornately gilt spines top edges gilt tops some spines neatly repaired. Philadelphia: John D. Morris & Co. n.d. ca. 1900. A handsome set. Very good .<br/> <br/> Number 478 of 1000 copies.<br/> <br/> unknown
1870Biblio23330 volumes. Reddish-brown 3/4 morocco spines gilt. Some foxing. Minor spotting to a few spines minor wear. An excellent set. A handsome set of the famous "Illustrated Library Edition" here in an early printing. The dedication at the front of the first volume Pickwick Papers states "This the best edition of my books is of right inscribed to my dear friend John Forster biographer of Oliver Goldsmith in affectionate acknowledgment of his counsel sympathy and faithful friendship during my whole literary life." "The Library Edition came about largely because of the suggestion of Forster that while Dickens's works were available in volumes in the Cheap Edition and in reprints of the serial parts there was no high-quality edition that would appeal to the wealthy. Dickens eventually came round to the idea that an elegant edition could raise the stature of his writings. He faced a complication in that the rights to the works were divided between Chapman and Hall and Bradbury and Evans. Consequently the volumes contained the imprints of both publishers. With a dedication to Forster the Library Edition appeared in 22 volumes in 1858-9 at 7s 6d per volume. "Titles included Pickwick Nickleby Chuzzlewit Old Curiosity Shop Reprinted Pieces Barnaby Rudge Hard Times Sketches by Boz Oliver Twist Dombey Copperfield Pictures from Italy Bleak House Little Dorrit and Christmas Books. The only illustrations were the frontispieces. Between 1861 and 1874 this edition was reissued in 30 volumes with the addition of Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend The Uncommercial Traveller A Child's History of England Christmas Stories and Drood. The reissue contained illustrations—the frontispieces plus additional illustrations by artists such as Marcus Stone John Leech and Clarkson Stanfield—and came to be known as the Illustrated Library Edition. Recognizing the continuing potential for sales of Dickens's works Chapman and Hall in 1873 published a prospectus for the Second Illustrated Library Edition containing they contended all the works the novelist wished to preserve. Calling it the first well-printed issue with specially cast type and better paper than that used in previous editions this set was published in 30 volumes between 1873 and 1876 and sold at £15 for the set a high price for the time" Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens pp. 205-206. Price: $6000. Chapman and Hall hardcover
1848166239London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. First Edition; First Printing. Fine binding. Both Volumes Very Good. Rubbing along panel edges. First issue with all the points: Illustrated title page vignette shows Cuttle with the hook in his left hand. No page entry for the frontispiece & vignette no quotation marks around "the Party" to pp. XV line 2. Pp.26 'fidgetty' misspelling pp.40 'shewed' and 'shew' for 'showed' and 'show' pp.284 'Delight' for 'Joy' pp.324 'Capatin' misspelt for 'Captain'. Bradbury and Evans unknown
18379900038308London: Chapman and Hall 1837. 1st edition. Leather Bound. Seymour Buss Phiz illusts. pp. xiv 609. Thick 8vo. All 43 plates are present as described in Smith 'Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth' although five of the plates are placed one page earlier than called for and one plate is placed ten pages later. Seven of the plates are by Seymour two by Buss and the remainder by Phiz. Vignette title page plate shows 'S. Veller' and 'Phiz fecit'. As is always the case with a bound first edition of this title each of the plates is a 'mixed bag' of first state first plate second plate etc. varieties of the plates. Our copy contains at least 33 'matches' to the status of plates found in most first edition copies as stipulated by Smith; but it also contains 10 plates where the points are different the majority of the differences suggesting a first plate first state status. See also Eckel 'Bibliography of the Original Writings of Charles Dickens; Fitzgerald 'The History of Pickwick'; Hatton and Cleaver 'Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens'; Clendening 'A Handbook to Pickwick Papers'. The contents of our copy show foxing and there are a few very small less than one inch closed tears to the margins. The binding is tight and the contents are untrimmed. Overall a very good copy with a highly desirable number of first state 'points'. Recent rebind in full brown leather with gilt rules to spine and red morocco spine label. A most handsome presentation. Chapman and Hall unknown
1860ST20687London 1860. FIRST EDITION; one copy First Issue the other second issue. 188 x 130 mm. 7 3/8 x 5". Two copies. <br/> Original purple and pink paper wrappers respectively. Laid into an attractive emerald green morocco chemise covers framed with a French fillet elaborate volute cornerpieces accented with pomegranate and floral tools with a floral spray extending from the center its three flowers inlaid in maroon and gold morocco cornerpieces vertically connected with a dotted roll and lozenge tool front cover with gilt title flat spine lettered in gilt with floral sprays at head and tail turn-ins elaborately gilt with lilac floral jacquard doublures. In the apparently original rather worn green silk slipcase with gilt titling on both covers. The second issue with the fabric-backed first publication in "Household Words" tipped in at the rear. With a typed description from Alwin J. Scheuer laid in. Eckel pp. 188-91. Both copies with the wrappers slightly soiled but the delicate bindings holding firm; the first issue with a vertical crease through the center; the second issue with a three-inch closed tear to the front cover and a three-quarter inch closed tear to the rear cover otherwise very fine copies entirely clean and fresh internally.<br/> <br/> This is a complete little grouping that comprises the three versions of a short Dickens piece written about and then later used on behalf of St. Luke's Hospital a mental institution with a focus on serving the poor--with the three pieces offered here in a highly ornamental chemise. Dickens composed "Curious Dance" following a Christmastime visit to St. Luke's with his account of that visit released in his weekly journal "Household Words" on January 17 1852. Largely sympathetic to the hospital itself Dickens noted how far treatment had come since the previous century's approach to mental health care a time when "nothing was too monstrously cruel to be prescribed." Despite that progress Dickens was moved by the sorry state of the patients and the present account is used as a plea for greater public awareness for the suffering of the insane. Eight years later the hospital management with Dickens' permission published "Curious Dance" as a pamphlet in a fundraising effort. There are two distinct issues to the edition: the first in purple wrappers has a period after "Tree" in the title and no variation to the type in the text; the second in pink wrappers has a comma after "Tree" and the final seven lines of page 19 are in bold type. These final lines were the hospital's exhortation for donations apparently the plain type in the first issue had not had the desired financial return. Our offering includes both of these as well as the original "Household Words" article tipped into the latter issue. Given the fragility of the three items the condition here is extremely appealing--not to mention the attractive chemise that provides their protective presentation context. unknown
1866996G15London: Chapman and Hall 1866-1870. Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5". H.K. Browne; George Cruikshank; G. Cattermole; F. Walker; Marcus Stone. A brilliantly illustrated twenty six volume set of works by notable author Charles Dickens in half morocco binding. A brilliant twenty six volume set of works by Charles Dickens.The library editions illustrated.In half red morocco bindings with marbled endpapers and fore edges. Published from 1866-1870.Comprising of 26 volumes by notable author Charles Dickens a British novelist who created some of literature's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. This set includes:Vol I: The Pickwick Papers- Vol. I. Illustrated with a frontispiece vignette title page and 22 plates.Vol II: The Pickwick Papers- Vol. II. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 18 plates.Vol III: Nicholas Nickleby- Vol. I. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 19 plates.Vol IV: Nicholas Nickleby- Vol. II. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 18 plates.Vol V: Martin Chuzzlewit- Vol. I. Illustrated with a frontispiece vignette title page and 19 plates.Vol VI: Martin Chuzzlewit- Vol. II. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 18 plates.Vol VII: The Old Curiosity Shop- Vol. I. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 19 plates.Vol VIII: The Old Curiosity Shop- Vol. II; and Reprinted Pieces. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 plates.Vol IX: Barnaby Rudge- Vol. I. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 19 plates.Vol X: Barnaby Rudge- Vol. II.; and Hard Times. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 plates. Vol XI: Sketches by Boz. Illustrated with a frontispiece vignette title page and 38 plates.Vol XII: Oliver Twist. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 23 plates.Vol XIII: Dombey and Son- Vol I. Illustrated with a frontispiece vignette title page and 18 plates.Vol XIV: Dombey and Son- Vol. II. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 18 plates.Vol XV: David Copperfield- Vol. I. Illustrated with a frontispiece vignette title page and 19 plates.Vol XVI: David Copperfield- Vol. II. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 18 plates.Vol XVII: Pictures From Italy; and American Notes. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 plates.Vol XVIII: Bleak House- Vol. I. Illustrated with a frontispiece vignette title page and 19 plates.Vol XIX: Bleak House- Vol II. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 18 plates.Vol XX: Little Dorrit- Vol. I. Illustrated with a frontispiece a vignette title page and 16 plates. Lacking the final 4 plates.Vol XXI: Little Dorrit- Vol. II. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 17 plates.Vol XXII: Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life The Haunted Man. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 16 plates.Vol XXIII: A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated with a frontispiece vignette title page and 14 plates.Vol XXIV: Great Expectations. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 plates.Vol XXV: Our Mutual Friend- Vol. I. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 19 plates.Vol XXVI: Our Mutual Friend- Vol. II. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 19 plates.All volumes collated. All complete except for Vol XX. In half red morocco binding. Externally smart. Slight fading to spines. Rubbing to joints and odd mark to boards. Odd rubbing to board corners. Slight bumping to head of spine with small split to front joint of Vol XIII. Splitting to head of front joint of Vol XIV. Splitting to rear of front joint of Vol. XIX. Splitting to head of rear joint of Vol XVI. Booksellers sticker to front paste down of all volumes. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages 54-59 in Vol X disbound but present loosely inserted to the correct page. Pages are bright and clean with light spotting and age toning. Lacking 4 plates from Vol XX. Very Good Chapman and Hall hardcover
1865190826London: Chapman and Hall c.1865. Finely bound A finely bound collection of "Chapman and Hall's most luxurious edition" of Dicken's works Spencer. Published not long after Dickens's death it was a testament to his continued popularity. 26 vols octavo 180 x 111 mm. Engraved frontispieces and illustrated plates throughout by among others George Cruikshank Hablot Knight Browne Phiz H. K. Browne Sir Edwin Landseer John Leech Doyle and Tenniel. Contemporary red calf twin green calf spine labels compartments elaborately decorated in gilt boards with double gilt rule and single fillet in blind marbled endpapers edges gilt. A little rubbing to spines a few marks to boards occasional foxing. A bright set. Spencer pp. 20-21. hardcover
1854159933London: Bradbury & Evans 1854. An attractive copy in the original cloth First edition in book form in the first issue binding with the price in gilt on the spine which was removed in later issues. Hard Times was the shortest but also arguably the most political of Dickens's novels as well as being the only novel set entirely outside of London. The novel was originally issued in 20 weekly parts from April to August 1854. This copy has the later states of pages 122 231 and 265 with Smith's textual errors corrected; sheets with the varying states were bound at random and the points do not have bearing on priority of issue. Octavo. Original green cloth spine lettered in gilt spine and covers decoratively blocked in blind. Housed in a custom green cloth folding box. Contemporary bookseller's ticket of Henry Greer Belfast to front pastedown. Spine and board edges faded to brown spine ends gently bumped with a couple of tiny chips a touch of rubbing to corners inner hinges superficially split but firm edges a little foxed contents generally clean. A very good copy. Smith I 11. hardcover
191475760New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1914. First edition. One of a limited edition of 150 numbered sets each signed on the limitation leaf by the artist and the publisher. Additionally signed by Smith on the print "Coffee-Room George Inn". 22 loose photogravure proofs. Each matted and housed in the publisher's folder. An excellent set in the original folder. unknown
1846188339London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. Acquired on publication day First edition of the fourth of Dickens's Christmas books with the engraved title page in the second state rather than the more common fourth. Octavo. Engraved frontispiece and title page illustrations in text leaf of advertisements at end. Original red vertically ribbed cloth boards blocked in blind spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt yellow coated endpapers edges gilt. Housed in a silk-lined red morocco case by Riviere & Son. Bookseller's ticket of W. Webb Liverpool; ownership signature of Frances Mary Corbet b. 1822 in Liverpool dated 19 December 1846 the book's publication day on half-title; bookplate of scientist Richard Bayard Dominick 1919-1976 on front free endpaper recto. Cloth bright trivial wear to extremities paste-action browning from bookplate contents otherwise clean; a near-fine copy. Smith II 8. hardcover
1850192604London: Chapman & Hall 1850-67. Dickensian Christmas tales A complete set of Dickens's seasonal offerings at his journals Household Words and All the Year Round comprising nine issues each. Writing "in company" Dickens composed the opening and closing pieces as a frame for stories supplied by his staff writers. The serials continued the tradition of Dickens's five Christmas books of the 1840s. The formula that Dickens used from 1852 to 1866 involved gathering a group of disparate literary individuals who would while away Christmas Eve by recounting various stories in the manner of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Dickens contributed many stories himself including "A Christmas Tree" "The Mortals in the House" and "The Ghost in Master B's Room". Among the other pieces are "No Thoroughfare" jointly by Dickens and Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell's "The Ghost in the Garden Room" and "How the First Floor went to Crowley Castle". Dickens edited the papers consecutively from 1850 until his death in 1870. 18 parts octavo comprising 13 unbound parts and 5 wire-stitched parts in original blue wrappers all as issued. Printed in double column. Housed in late 19th-century custom green morocco folding box front joint cracked but holding. Contemporary ownership inscription of one G. H. Strickland to front wrapper of 1865 part; bookplate of Stephen George Holland 1817-1908 founder of cloth merchants Holland and Sherry and heir to Holland and Sons the pre-eminent cabinetmakers of Victorian England to inside front cover of box; recent bookplate of Peter Russell to the inside rear cover. A couple of spines worn remaining sound wrappers with occasional soiling and small tears to edges overall in very good condition. hardcover
1839184774London: Chapman and Hall 1839. Elegantly bound First edition bound from the parts in a very attractive contemporary binding of one of Dickens's most politically pointed novels. Writing after the successes of Pickwick Papers 1837 and Oliver Twist 1838 Dickens "did not want to lose either his reputation as a topical and polemical novelist or his fame as a comic one. So in Nicholas Nickleby he devised a plot capacious enough to include both aspects of his genius" Ackroyd p. 254. The novel was serialized from April 1838 to October 1839 and published in book form on 23 October. Octavo 213 x 130 mm bound without half-title. Engraved portrait of Dickens after D. Maclise 39 plates by Phiz. Contemporary monogram bookplate to front free endpaper slight residue of bookplate removal to front pastedown. Light rubbing at extremities plates a little browned a couple with closed tears: a very good copy. Eckel pp. 64-5; Smith I 5. Peter Ackroyd Dickens 1990. unknown
1839150477London: Chapman and Hall 1839. In publisher's deluxe binding bound from the parts First edition in the publisher's deluxe binding of half morocco bound from the original monthly parts with the stab-holes visible. Nicholas Nickleby followed the phenomenal success which Dickens reached with the Pickwick Papers. To secure Nickleby Chapman and Hall offered Dickens £150 a part a sum ten times greater than that which he had received for Pickwick. As with its predecessor the novel met with great public enthusiasm which has continued unabated: Dickens's biographer Peter Ackroyd stated that the novel "has some title to being the funniest novel Dickens ever wrote; it is perhaps the funniest novel in the English language" Ackroyd Dickens pp. 262. Upon the completion of the novel in monthly parts the novel was issued by the publishers in book form in three binding choices: in cloth in half morocco with marble edges and in full morocco with gilt edges. They also made available and advertised as such with an inset included with the final instalment of the part issue their binding services for the same three bindings for owners of the parts: cloth at 1s. 6d. half morocco at 4s. 6d. and full morocco at 6s. 6d. Kremers pp. 286-7. It is worth noting that for an owner of the parts to have their parts bound was much cheaper than to buy a copy of the new book-form issue - to purchase a book-form copy in half morocco would cost the purchaser £1 4s. 6d. four times as much as to bind up their parts. Copies bound from the parts as opposed to book-form copies can be distinguished by the presence of stab-holes in the gutter as here from the unstitching of the parts from their wrappers. For the book form clean sheets were printed without bearing these holes. The binding services continued to be offered long after publication both as the publisher bound up remaining first edition sheets for new issues apparently as late as 1857 for Nickleby and for private individuals to continue to make use of the binding services. The publishers offered the same binding services for future Dickens novels and so the individual who had the parts issues of earlier Dickens novels could commission bindings for multiple novels simultaneously. Minor variation in tooling cloth and morocco occurred over time for these bindings which can indicate earlier and later bindings though the full sequence and firm dates have never been established. The presence of morocco-grain cloth on this copy indicates that it was bound around the 1850s when Chapman and Hall begun to use morocco-grain cloth - they had until then predominantly used fine-diaper cloth. Octavo 209 x 134 mm. Engraved portrait frontispiece 39 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne Phiz. Original purple half morocco spine lettered in gilt spine bands with gilt floral roll and bordered with blind rules green morocco-grain cloth sides marbled endpapers and edges. Complete with half-title. Spine sunned and a little rubbed minor wear at tips binding firm and intact some light soiling to contents and minor browning to plates as usual short closed tear at fore edge of plate facing p. 238. A very good copy. Lars Kremers "A Comparative Bibliography of the Sheets and Publishers' Cloth Cases of the Demy Octavo Works of Charles Dickens 1837-1872" PhD thesis Curtin University November 2013. hardcover
1837157782London: Chapman and Hall 1837. Handsomely bound and extra illustrated First edition a superb extra illustrated copy with the scarce suites of plates by Thomas Sibson and Frederick William Pailthorpe - neither of which are in the celebrated Suzannet and Vander Poel collections - in a particularly fine binding by Rivière whose work was renowned for "the quality of the materials the forwarding and in the delicacy of the tooling" ODNB. This copy includes the complete suite of Sketches of Expeditions from the Pickwick Club a series of ten unofficial illustrations first published in 1838 to accompany some of the "most striking scenes" of the novel. Also included is Pailthorpe's 1882 series 24 Illustrations to the Pickwick Club all hand-coloured described by Grego as "thoroughly in harmony with the first series of plates" by Phiz and Seymour p. 450. All of the original plates are also present in their early states as called for with no titles or imprints. The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens's first novel transformed the obscure journalist into England's most famous writer within months. The first monthly instalment was issued in an edition of 1000 copies in April 1836. The work became a publishing sensation after the introduction of Sam Weller in chapter 10 the fourth instalment issued in July 1836 after which the publishers reprinted the earlier instalments so that readers could catch up. The serial was originally intended to be primarily a vehicle for the cartoons of Robert Seymour until he died by suicide after the first number was published. Robert William Buss then took over but he was inexperienced in steel engraving and had to be replaced. The final choice Hablot Knight Browne "Phiz" was to be Dickens's chosen collaborator for the next two decades. Octavo 270 x 129 mm. 112 engraved plates including etched vignette title page "Weller" no priority frontispiece 41 plates by Robert Seymour and Hablot Knight Browne Phiz with 2 additional plates by R. W. Buss. Late 19th-century red morocco by Rivière & Son spine lettered in gilt in floral compartments raised bands triple gilt filleting to sides floral gilt dentelles dark blue coated endpapers gilt edges. With original wrappers of part III bound in to rear. With bookplates of the barrister Herbert H. Smith to front pastedown and of Jeremy and Penny Martin to front free endpaper and faded ownership inscription of one Alex F. Little to engraved title page. Very minor rubbing to extremities light foxing to contents and offsetting from plates a bright and attractive copy with sharp hand-coloured plates. Podeschi H1137; Smith I.3. Joseph Grego Pictorial Pickwickiana: Charles Dickens and His Illustrators 1899. hardcover
09142London December 1855-June 1857: Bradbury and Evans. First Edition. Original Wraps. H. K. Browne. First edition in the original parts; 20 parts in 19. Bound in the original blue/green printed wrappers - ALL wrappers are correct and ALL the ads called for by Hatton & Cleaver are present. First issue of the text "Rigaud" for "Blandois" in part XV. Text in part XIX/XX is partly UNOPENED. Plates are very good to fine; plates in parts IV and VIII with light off-setting from the dark plate; plates in parts V XIII XV XVI and XVIII are lightly tanned at edges not affecting illustrations; plates in part XIX/XX are uniformly age-toned but still very good. Tissue guards are in place. Several spines are expertly renewed; light soiling to a few wrappers. Bookseller ticket removed from front wrap of part I; neat owner initials on front wrap of part XIV. Internally clean and bright. An outstanding set with everything including a pedigree - it is from the famed Hatton & Cleaver collection. Armorial bookplate. Housed in a quarter-leather slipcase with chemise. Provenance: The Hatton and Cleaver collection The Heritage Bookshop Charles Parkhurst Books Inc. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 307-330. <br/><br/> Bradbury and Evans paperback books
03754London: Bradbury & Evans 1848. Time Consoler of Affliction and Softener of Anger"<br/>Scarce in the 'Primary' Cloth Binding<br/><br/>DICKENS Charles. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury & Evans 1848. <br/><br/>First edition first issue with the 'eight-line errata' following all but a very few of the points in Smith in book form of Dickens' seventh novel bound from the original monthly parts with stab-holes present in the inner margins of gatherings. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in; 222 x 138 mm. xvi 1 errata 1 blank 624 pp. Engraved frontispiece titlepage and thirty-eight plates after Hablot K. Browne "Phiz" including the 'dark' plate "On the Dark Road" facing p. 547.<br/><br/>Some of the plates with light foxing mainly marginal otherwise a very clean and partially uncut example.<br/><br/>Publisher's 'primary' binding of moderate olive-green fine-diaper grain cloth; the front and back covers entirely stamped in blind with a three-line border which encloses a rectangular frame that occupies the length of the covers. The frame contains an ornament of leaves and stems in each corner and a chain-like design that runs along its inner edge; each segment of the chain encloses a four-headed flower and is bordered by a nipple. The spine is lettered in gilt and stamped in blind with a thick band at its top and bottom and four rectangular panels. Original pale orange-yellow coated endpapers. With nearly all of the 'internal flaws' mentioned by Smith uncorrected. Front joint head and tail of spine and inner hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired spine slightly faded. An excellent example far better than is usually seen of this now hard to find Dickens novel in the original cloth. <br/><br/>"Dombey and Son originally appeared in twenty numbers bound in nineteen monthly parts the last forming a double number from October 1846 - April 1848. It was published in book form on April 12 1848. at 21s.<br/><br/>Dombey and Son contains the first published example of a so-called dark plate which was created by a machine process that tinted the etched plate and heightened its black-and-white contrast. The one dark plate in Dombey and Son is "On the Dark Road" p. 547. The smooth blending of light and shadow on this illustration vividly contrasts it with the other illustrations in the novel and is a fine example of the dark plate process." Smith.<br/><br/>Smith I:8. Sadleir 687. Wolff 1798. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848 unknown books
18362127.2London: Chapman & Hall 1836. 1st edition Eckel pp 102-103. Original printed wrappers. Chemised and housed in a full green morocco pull-off slipcase. Accompanied by a bound copy of the 1884 Jarvis facsimile. VG some soiling & wear. Over quite a respectable copy of this delicate emphemeral piece. Slipcase - spine sunned to tan otherwise VG. 49 3 blank pp. Trimmed edges. 4 plates. 12mo. <br/><br/>Early in his career while busily at work on PICKWICK Dickens found time to write this political tract under this Sparks pseudonym in support of the working man's freedom on the Sabbath which was being threatened by Parlimentary action. This role of working man's champion was to continue throughout his life. <br /> <br />The first edition of this work in original wrappers is rather uncommon. Chapman & Hall unknown books
AQ33584London: Jaques & Son Hatton Garden s.d. c. 1875 54 stiff printed paper cards backed in glazed lilac paper including a rule card and 'receive one counter from each player' card. Preserved within the rare publisher's two-part glazed cream box with front and rear of lower portion featuring a coloured title 'The characters of Charles Dickens. An interesting game' and illustration of Mr. Pickwick and an advertisement for another Jacques game 'Bumble Puppy' respectively. A crisp set with just occasional marking; some loss/splitting to box at edges. A late Victorian edition produced by Jaques of Hatton Garden of a rare card game for eight or fewer people consisting of 13 'quartettes of characters from the works of CHARLES DICKENS'. Of these 13 ten feature a drawing and description of a character from within one of the author's novels Oliver Twist Barnaby Rudge Curiosity Shop sic Chuzzlewit Pickwick Dombey & Son The Chimes Cricket on the Hearth The Haunted Man and Bleak House and three Little Dorrit David Copperfield and The Christmas Books feature text only and no illustration. 'Having sorted their cards the game is commenced by the player on the left of the dealer playing one of his cards…for example supporting a character in 'Bleak House' is played 'Smallweed' 'Mrs Bagnet' 'Jo' and 'Turveydrop' will form a trick which the last player may take.' The game is completed as the rule card explains when three tricks of four cards are held by the same player. The box containing this rare card game provides interesting details; in addition to the original pricing 'Price One Shilling' we can see from the price label of 'John E. Stafford' of Brighton that this was sold there for Eight and three quarter pence. OCLC locates just two examples of this rare game Chicago and Harvard; COPAC adds one further at Manchester. . Card dimensions: 650 x 930 mm. [Jaques & Son, Hatton Garden], [s.d., c. 1875] unknown
1840149070London: Chapman and Hall 1840-1841. First edition in the scarce original parts of this classic collection of short stories. Royal octavo 88 weekly parts as issued original white wrappers printed in black with wood-engraved title engraved frontispieces illustrated with wood-engravings and initials after George Cattermole & Hablot Knight Browne. Accompanied by a 4 page announcement by Chapman & Hall for the title. In very good to near fine condition. Housed in a custom half red morocco and tan cloth slipcase with folding chemise. Master Humphrey's Clock originally appeared in the form of a weekly periodical published between April of 1840 and December of 1841. Entirely written and edited by Dickens the magazine included both short stories and two novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Many of the short stories acted as frame stories to the novels and although Dickens' original artistic intent was to keep the short stories and the novels together he himself cancelled Master Humphrey's Clock before 1848 and described in a preface to The Old Curiosity Shop that he wished the story to not be tied down to the miscellany it began within. Most later anthologies published the short stories and the novels separately. However the short stories and the novels were published in 1840 in three bound volumes under the title Master Humphrey's Clock which retains the full and correct ordering of texts as they originally appeared. Chapman and Hall hardcover
1852002723Londion: Bradbury and Evans 1852. Three volume set of this early Dickens title dated 1852 1853 1854 respectively. All first editions/first issues in original reddish brown cloth. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. Backstrips stamped in gold lettering inside elaborate shield shaped ornamental design. Boards stamped in blind front and rear and gilt motif of Alfred reading to his mother in center on each cover. Each volume illustrated with frontispiece by W. Topham. Minor sunning to backstrips and volume III has two minute punctures to cloth at upper and lower backstrip. Minor wear to corners as usual and incidental age soiling to cloth. Former owner's bookplate in each volume reads: "J. Steele Coldstream Guards". Overall a superior set in the original cloth which is becoming much more difficult to find. Scans are available on request. Eckel p.127-9; Smith II p.75. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Bradbury and Evans Hardcover
183726231London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition. Engraved frontispiece and title-page and with a plethora of engraved illustrations by R. Seymour and H. K. Browne ‘Phiz’. 8vo very handsomely bound in contemporary 3/4 dark wine morocco over marbled boards the covers with gilt rules the spine very beautifully decorated with wide raised bands elaborately gilt tooled and border with double gilt fillet lines head and tail caps with gilt rolls one compartment lettered in gilt. xiv 609 pp. A very attractive copy especially well preserved and in lovely condition. VERY HANDSOME FIRST EDITION IN PERIOD BINDING. “Pickwick was issued when Dickens’ name was just beginning to excite the attention of prescient publishers and be recognized by readers in search of entertaining novels . The publication of PICKWICK which ran through twenty numbers made for all time an English classic--a book representative of its age exhibiting the life and the ideals of an important class of English folk on the threshold of the Victorian era.<br> Now over a century and a half later PICKWICK holds its assured place in the literature of our tongue and among all its author’s works seems to have the best chance of achieving what is known as immortality. The book was an improvisation. Dickens was led by his genius and by the indulgence of his jocuse fancy into picturing all the popular life which his varied experience in and out of London had made familiar to him. And it is a book that appeals throughout life--to the child and to the person of late years.’ Gissing Like others of Dickens’ creations it is a masterpiece.<br> This is a wonderful copy in beautiful contemporary state. Chapman and Hall hardcover
1852ST20685-1London: Bradbury & Evans 1852-54. FIRST EDITION in Book Form. 155 x 120 mm. 6 1/8 x 4 3/4". Three volumes. <br/> Very pleasing polished calf by Morrell stamp-signed on verso of front flyleaf covers with a French fillet border with rosette cornerpieces raised bands spine gilt in compartments with floral tools surrounded by a diamond of small stars with volute cornerpieces red and green morocco labels with gilt lettering turn-ins densely gilt with floral scrolls top edge gilt. Original gilt cloth bindings bound in. Each volume with a frontispiece by F. W. Topham. Front pastedown with the ex-libris of Ellen O'Neil Logan. Volume one half-title with ink inscription: "Florence Emily Lewis / Evelyn Waite Hauchen / from / her Godmama E. M. L. / 1858." Volume three half-title faintly inscribed: "Rosalie Burke / From her Papa / illegible 1852." Eckel pp. 128-30; Podeschi A-128. David Paroissien "History and Change: Dickens and the Past" in "The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens" pp. 484-99. Volume I with a narrow brown stain on upper cover a few light cover scuffs perhaps just a hint of wear to corners but the bindings quite handsome and very well preserved. First volume with two small tears not affecting text trivial spots otherwise entirely clean and fresh internally. A very pretty set.<br/> <br/> In an elegantly simple binding this is Dickens' only work of history which shows the same reforming anti-conservatism spirit so apparent in his fiction. The idea for the work was formed when Dickens was disturbed by the positive reception of a speech glorifying England's history at an 1843 fundraising dinner in London. The author wrote to a friend of his fear that his eldest son Charley might grow to believe this nostalgic and overly positive version of history. As he wrote to another friend he determined to write the present work to ensure that his son and other children did not place their "a ections on wrong heros sic or see the bright side of Glory’s sword and know nothing of the rusty one." DNB calls the result "intensely anti-aristocratic and anti-monarchical"; literary scholar David Paroissien writes that by praising and drawing attention to the stories of humbler heroes who challenged the people in power the work provides "a vigorous corrective to the habit of English sycophancy." The work was originally serialized in Dickens' "Household Words" newspaper from 1851-53 before being issued for the first time in its present form. The pleasing bindings are the work of the London bindery of W. T. Morrell established about 1861 as successor to the firm begun by Francis Bedford who in turn had taken over the famous bindery of Charles Lewis. Prideaux in her "Modern Bookbindings" says that Morrell at that time had a very large business that supplied "all the booksellers with bindings designed by his men" which were "remarkable for their variety and merit." The inscriptions in our copy suggest that as Dickens had intended it was given as a gift to at least two children. The attractive ex-libris indicate that this copy was later in the library of Ellen O'Neil Logan 1884-1977 a St. Louis heiress. Bradbury & Evans unknown
73436London: Chapman and Hall 1859. Classic Literature FIRST EDITION with the following first issue points; page 213 numbered 113; 'affectionately' misspelled on page 134; the name of 'Stryver' misspelt 'Striver' on plate at page 9. Signature 'b' is not noted on list of plates the later state. Octavo 22 x 14cm pp.254 engravings by H.K. Browne. Contemporary half navy calf over marbled paper-covered sides red morocco title label edges speckled red salmon-coloured drab endpapers. Contents clean throughout plates are particularly fresh with only light marginal spotting binding lightly rubbed with a few small cracks to head and tail at joints. A very good copy indeed. One of Dickens most accessible tales set at the time of the French Revolution; the fortunes of two men - Charles Darnay an exiled French aristocrat and Sydney Carton a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer - become entwined through their love for Lucie Manette. Drawn together to the streets of Paris their fate is played out under the vengeful shadow of La Guillotine. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859 unknown
185951265London: Chapman and Hall 1859. First edition first issue. 8vo. viii 2 254 pp. Later tan half calf over marbled boards spine with raised bands gilt lettered red label. Frontispiece engraved title vignette and 14 plates. Two plates repaired that opposite p. 137 with a restored area to the upper left corner not affecting the printed area the plate opposite p. 150 with a diagonal repaired tear occasional foxing slight sunning to the spine else very good. Smith 1 13. London: Chapman and Hall unknown
