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1840153415London: Chapman and Hall 1840-41. The pinnacle of Dickensian Gothic First edition in book form of what Gordon Ray describes as "the pinnacle of Dickensian Gothic" a particularly nice example in the original cloth. Ray goes on to note that Phiz H. K. Browne "is in excellent form" and that George Cattermole's "wonderful clutter of antiquarian or architectural detail is well suited to Dickens's chosen subjects". Master Humphrey was a publishing experiment on Dickens's part unique in his canon of issuing two novels together: The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. The publication was issued in three forms in weekly parts monthly parts and the present book form copies in cloth upon completion. 3 vols tall octavo. Printed frontispieces and 194 woodcut illustrations of which 154 are by Browne 19 by Cattermole and 1 by Daniel Maclise. Original purplish vertical-ribbed cloth gilt lettered and decorated spines covers elaborately blindstamped front covers with gilt clock motif marbled edges and endpapers. Housed in green cloth pull-off case. A very sharp copy the spines uniformly sunned to tan and the contents clean. Eckel p. 67 ff; Ray The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914 60; Smith I 6. hardcover
1839187854London: Chapman and Hall 1839. Prettily bound with extra plates First edition bound from the parts in an attractive contemporary binding and including an extra suite of plates by Kenny Meadows from his publication Heads from Nicholas Nickleby from Drawings by Miss La Creevy 1839. The complete suite shows 24 characters "selected at the period when their very actions define their true character" cited in Kitton p. 234. 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. This copy has the first state frontispiece and initial four plates all with the imprint and the earlier readings "visiter" for "sister" p. 123 line 17 and "latter" for "letter" p. 160 line 6 up. Octavo 212 x 122 mm. Engraved portrait of Dickens after D. Maclise 39 plates by Phiz. Extra-illustrated with 24 plates of engraved character portraits by Kenny Meadows. Bound with half-title and with front wrapper from the original part XII. Contemporary dark red morocco spine lettered in gilt compartments densely tooled in gilt covers bordered with gilt frame enclosing floral corners floral gilt roll to turn-ins edges gilt. Engraved book label of Stephen Williamson. Hint of sunning to spine bright overall minor rubbing and wear splits to inner hinges occasional mark to contents browning from tissue guards to plates small marginal chip to p. 597. A very nice copy. Eckel pp. 64-6; Hatton & Cleaver pp. 131-60; Kitton pp. 233-4; Smith I 5. Peter Ackroyd Dickens 1990. unknown
1837168614London: Chapman and Hall 1837. Finely bound from the original parts First edition bound from the original monthly parts. The novel was Dickens's first great success and transformed him from an obscure journalist into England's most famous writer in a matter of months. It was first published in serial form from March 1836 to November 1837. This copy has the Buss plates which were later replaced by new designs by Phiz. Octavo 209 x 127 mm. Engraved frontispiece "Weller" no priority vignette title page and 41 plates by Seymour Buss and Phiz all in earlier states without captions. Early 20th-century tan calf by Riviere spine elaborately gilt in compartments red and green labels ruling to boards turn-ins gilt marbled endpapers edges gilt. Housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase. Extremities lightly rubbed occasional spot to contents. A very good copy. Hatton and Cleaver pp. 1 ff; Kremers pp. 54-69; Smith I.3. hardcover
1885450001No date circa 1885. Large Folio set in six volumes. Extremely scarce no complete sets at auction. Each folio with six lithographs. Cassell and Company Ltd hardcover
AUTOGCHAPMAN AND HALL Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 0 VOLUME LIMITED AUTOGRAPH SET BOUND IN HALF LEATHER includes: TALE OF TWO CITIES MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT GREAT EXPECTATIONS OLIVER TWIST PICKWICK PAPERS BLEAK HOUSE BARNEY RUDGE LITTLE DORIT UNCOMERCIAL TRAVELLER CHRISTMAS BOOKS CHRISTMAS STORIES OLD CURIOSITY SHOP SKETCHES BY BOZ DOMBEY AND SON DAVID COPPERFIELD OUR MUTUAL FRIEND AMERICAN NOTES PICTURES FROM ITALY NICHOLAS NICLEBY EDWIN DROOD HUMPHREY'S CLOCK A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAN. A beati8ful set. owner gift inscription illustrations with plates by Cruikshank Browne Leech et al. . CHAPMAN AND HALL Hardcover
76656Oxford: The Clarendon Press 2002. The British Academy The Pilgrim Edition. Hardcover. near fine/near fine. Twelve Volume set. Octavo. 9 1/2" x 6 1/2". Volume One 1820-1839 Volume Two: 1840-1841 Volume Three: 1842-1843 Volume Four: 1844-1846 Volume Five: 1847-1849 Volume Six: 1850-1852 Volume Seven: 1853-1855 Volume Eight: 1856-1858 Volume Nine: 1859-1861 Volume Ten: 1862-1864 Volume Eleven: 1865-1867 Volume Twelve: 1868-1870. Fronitispiece in each volume. The volumes are in very nice condition and all volumes in dust jackets. The dust jacket of the spine of Volume Twelve has some light creasing. Charles Dickens began writting letters when he was 9 years old and he continued to write until the day before he died. The Clarendon Press hardcover
1840L1252<p>88 weekly parts with three frontispieces and numerous wood engravings in the text by George Cattermole Hablot K. Browne and others. Quarto 10 1/2" x 7" bound in publisher's 88 original pictorial weekly parts in printed white self-wrappers uncut housed green cloth slipcase and chemise. Eckel pp. 61-65; Hatton & Cleaver pp. 161-182 First edition first issue.</p><p>With preliminaries frontispiece title-page and Preface for the three volume edition present in numbers 26 52 and 88; addresses by the author in parts 9 80-83 and 87; a tipped in advertisement to pt. 62 for <em>Chambers's Journal of Literature Poetry Biography and Adventure</em>. Each weekly part was issued as a single folded sheet of 16 pages 4 of which formed the outer wrapper around 12 numbered pages of letterpress. "Of the four issues the weekly one is difficult to obtain in a clean condition and is therefore the costliest" Eckel. All 88 parts include front wrappers with an engraved design by George Cattermole which was engraved in wood by E. Landells. One of the first works to be published in both weekly and monthly parts</p><p><em>Master Humphrey's Clock</em> was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle of friends and their penchant for telling stories. Several short stories were included followed by the novels <em>The Old Curiosity Shop</em> and <em>Barnaby Rudge</em>. It is generally thought that Dickens originally intended <em>The Old Curiosity Shop</em> as a short story like the others that had appeared in <em>Master Humphrey's Clock</em> but after a few chapters decided to extend it into a novel. Master Humphrey appears as the first-person narrator in the first three chapters of <em>The Old Curiosity Shop</em> but then disappears stating "And now that I have carried this history so far in my own character and introduced these personages to the reader I shall for the convenience of the narrative detach myself from its further course and leave those who have prominent and necessary parts in it to speak and act for themselves."<br /><br />Master Humphrey is a lonely man who lives in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique longcase clock by the chimney-corner. One day he decides that he would start a little club called Master Humphrey's Clock where the members would read out their manuscripts to the others. The members include Master Humphrey; a deaf gentleman; Jack Redburn; retired merchant Owen Miles; and Mr. Pickwick from <em>The Pickwick Papers</em>. A mirror club in the kitchen <em>Mr. Weller's Watch</em> run by Mr. Weller has members including Humphrey's maid the barber and Sam Weller.<br /><br /><em>Master Humphrey's Clock</em> appeared after <em>The Old Curiosity Shop</em> to introduce Barnaby Rudge. After Barnaby Rudge Master Humphrey is left by himself by the chimney corner in a train of thoughts. Here the deaf gentleman continues the narration. Later the deaf gentleman and his friends return to Humphrey's house to find him dead. Humphrey has left money for the barber and the maid no doubt by traces of love that they would be married. Redburn and the deaf gentleman look after the house and the club closes for good.<br /><br />In the portion of<em> Master Humphrey's Clock</em> which succeeds The Old Curiosity Shop Master Humphrey reveals to his friends that he is the character referred to as the 'single gentleman' in that story.</p><p><strong>Condition: </strong></p><p>Some soiling and chipping a few soft creases some chipping and light soiling a few leaves becoming detached Slipcase with some rubbing to edges else very good in like slipcase.</p> Chapman and Hall paperback
1844100523Leipzig: J. J. Weber 1844. First German-language edition translated by E. A. Moriarty. Frontispiece and 7 etched plates by John Leech uniform half-title for Weber's collected edition of Dickens's works in German. In 8s 6 x 4 1/4 in.; 152 x 110 mm. Publisher's cloth-backed green marbled boards gray endpapers marbled edges; extremities rather rubbed. Leech John. First German-language edition translated by E. A. Moriarty. Frontispiece and 7 etched plates by John Leech uniform half-title for Weber's collected edition of Dickens's works in German. In 8s 6 x 4 1/4 in.; 152 x 110 mm. First German Edition of A Christmas Carol. The first German editions of Dickens' first two Christmas books. Not in the Gimbel collection and rare on the market. All of John Leech's illustrations for the original English edition including the four wood-engraved text vignettes are rendered as etched plates for this edition. Gimbel/Podeschi D4 for later collected German ed. but see note for this ed. J. J. Weber unknown books
1848406385London: Bradbury & Evans 1848. Spine a bit sunned some light wear at the corners and ends of spine slightly cocked in binding but cloth generally fresh and bright. Internally some occasional foxing but overall clean pp. 234-36 roughly opened with loss to margin not affecting text bright and crisp. Contemporary Hungarian ownership inscription on front free endpaper. 8vo 21 x 13.6 cm. xvi 2 624 pages. Half-title 8-line errata leaf. Engraved frontispiece title and 38 plates including the first example of a 'dark plate' and the first use of horizontal plates by Hablot K. Browne with tissue guards preserved. Bound from the parts with stab-holes visible at gutter in contemporary cloth: bluish-green cloth the covers with wide gilt panel smooth spine gilt-decorated and -titled pale yellow endpapers all edges gilt. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM IN AN APPARENTLY BESPOKE CONTEMPORARY CLOTH BINDING. The present binding is not mentioned by Smith: the two variants he describes are both decorated in blind not with the richly-gilt panels found on the present copy. With the following issue points: frontispiece with hook on Captain Cuttle's left arm "bird's-eye" not hyphenated on p. 61 p. xv with no page number for frontispiece and vignette and with all of the errors detailed by Smith as earliest issue except for those on pp. 220 336 and 431. Eckel pp. 71-76; Grolier Dickens 155; Podeschi/Gimbel A103; Sadlier I: 687; Smith 8. In entirely original unsophisticated condition. <br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
1859241492London or New York 1859. A mixed set some with London imprints. Volumes I-IV & XIII Office 16 Wellington Street and some with New York Dix and Edwards Vols. VI & VII New York: McElbrath and Barker Vol. VIII etc. 20 vols. 8vo. Original green blind-stamped pebbled cloth. One volume slightly split rest very fresh. Bookplate of St. Paul's School ex dono plate of Mr. Francis F. Randolph small unobtrusive blind stamp on title pages. A mixed set some with London imprints. Volumes I-IV & XIII Office 16 Wellington Street and some with New York Dix and Edwards Vols. VI & VII New York: McElbrath and Barker Vol. VIII etc. 20 vols. 8vo. Household Words was considerably more popular in England than America and its publishing history in America is "almost absolutely dark as is the whole subject of periodical printing and 'arrangements' . The 1850's were years of copyright agitation in America and certainly no legally protective arrangements were possible to the English publishers before the journal was discontinued in 1859. And it is not surprising that the course of Household Words was not so brilliant in American as was that of its successor All the Year Round . It was partially a local work and not quite so interesting to an America as to an English reader; it had changed publishers too often; there was no legitimate arrangement between the English proprietors and the American publishers; it was sold at too high a price; it had been published by inexperienced people and therefore had not received proper publicity and promotion; and its lack of pictorial illustration made it unpopular with the masses" Buckler William E. "'Household Words' in America" in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America vol. 45 pp. 160-66.<br/><br/>Household Words was published every Wednesday from March 1850 to May 1859. unknown books
1855101362London: Bradbury and Evans 1855-1857. First edition first printing in the original monthly parts of one of Dickens' most outstanding works which sold almost as many copies as the best-selling Bleak House. Octavo original publisher's illustrated blue-green wrappers 20 numbered serials in 19 parts with 38 plates by Hablot Knight Brown "Phiz". First issue of part 16 with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" and correction slip in part 16. With the original advertisements present with the exception of the advertisement inside the front wrapper of part 1 for "Edmistons' Pocket Siphonia" instead of "Edmistons' Crimean Outfit"; the slip for "Theatre Royal" at back of part 1; the slip for "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" at front of part 13; Dr. De Jongh's ad at back of part 14; and George Philip & Son ad at back of part 16. In near fine condition with period ownership inscriptions to the front wrappers of several parts and bookplate of Robert and Donna Jackson to the chemise slipcase. Housed in a custom morocco and chemise case. A very nice example. In Little Dorrit Dickens mounts his single most ferocious onslaught against England and English society; against its government against its financiers against its artists and even against its ordinary citizens who at least in Bleeding Heart Yard believed that .foreigners were always immoral. that foreigners had no independent spirit." Ackroyd 758. Perhaps unsurprisingly many reviewers reviled the book upon its publication. Dickens' friend Hans Christian Andersen advised the author to ignore the critics: "They are forgotten in a week and your book stands and lives" Ackroyd 780. And indeed Little Dorrit does: not only a commercial success in its day poor press notwithstanding but also esteemed now as a "wonderfully rich novel-- rich in ideas rich in characterization rich in incident and written in a richly imaginative prose. Many modern critics regard it as Dickens' masterpiece" Watts 108. The story first appeared as a serial in 1855 and was published in book form in 1857. Bradbury and Evans unknown books
1865102897London: Chapman and Hall 1865. First edition of Dickens' final completed novel in the rare original cloth. Octavo two volumes original cloth. Illustrated by Marcus Stone with forty plates. In near fine condition name to the front free endpaper. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example. "Our Mutual Friend originally appeared in twenty numbers bound in nineteen monthly parts the last part forming a double number from May 1864- November 1865. The first volume was published in book form on January 20 1865; the second on October 21 1865. 11s. each." Smith Dickens 15. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1836291699London: Macrone 1836. hardcover. fine. Cruikshank. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. 3 vols. 8vo full dark green morocco gilt spines gilt tops by Zaehnsdorf. London: Macrone 1836-1837.<br/><br/> Second edition of the first two volumes with an additional preface dated August 1836. The Second series complete in one volume dated 1837 on the title page & 1836 on the pictorial title is a first edition with pages 25 32 & 62 mis-numbered. Nice set of Dickens' first published work.<br/><br/> Macrone unknown books
18501508046Bradbury & Evans 1850. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A very good first edition with most first issue points. Rebound. Some water damage to first few pages before main title page. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
310413London: Chapman and Hall. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons nd. Gadshill edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Three quarters brown morocco and grey boards t.e.g. Very Good. Gadshill edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Chapman and Hall. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
18722041London: Thomas McLean Haymarket 1872. Housed in a period wooden frame. Nr Fine condition in a contemporary frame showing little wear. Engraving: 20" x 15". Frame: 33" x 27" <br/><br/>Firth a long-time friend of Dickens who Dickens commissioned in 1842 to paint a portrait of Kate Nickleby. This portrait of Dickens Frith completed in 1859 shows the author at his desk in Tavistock House at work on A Tale of Two Cities. Here the image engraved by T. Oldham Barlow and published by Thomas McLean in Haymarket. A handsome piece destined to grace a fireplace mantle. Thomas McLean, Haymarket unknown books
185921836London: Chapman and Hall 1859. First Edition. First issue with p. 213 misnumbered 113. Octavo 22cm.; recent three-quarter maroon morocco over marbled boards gilt spine in six compartments new marbled endpapers; viii2254pp; added engraved title page and frontispiece 14 leaves of plates. Some minor soiling to textblock and a couple plates else Very Good or better. GIMBEL A143. Attractive copy of one of Dickens's best-known novels set in London and Paris against the historical backdrop of the French Revolution. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1859332060London: Chapman and Hall 1859. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrated by H.K. Browne 8vo 19th century 3/4 calf with raised bands & leather spine labels over marbled boards. Marbled edges & end-papers. London: Chapman & Hall 1859. First Edition.<br/> <br/> The title page & frontispiece are foxed; other plates clean or very lightly foxed . Mixed issue with incorrect spelling of "affectionately" on p. 134 but missing "b" on list of plates & p. 213 correctly numbered.<br/> <br/> Chapman and Hall unknown
1853CD183London: Bradbury and Evans 1853 Illustrated with 40 plates by H.K. Browne "Phiz" including a frontispiece and vignette title page. First edition with all of the textual first issue points called for by Smith; in later issue binding bound in the same color cloth pattern and blind stampings as Dombey and Son with undated vignette title page. Publisher's olive green fine-diaper cloth boards stamped in blind with triple-ruled borders and chain-like frames with floral decoration in each corner spine stamped in blind and lettered in gilt and white endpapers likely variant endpapers as Smith calls for pale yellow endpapers. Very good with boards slightly bowed some toning to spine clean cloth with a touch of staining to foot of spine some very discrete glue repair to tears to cloth at foot of spine and along rear joint small ticket to front pastedown penciled ownership signature to front free endpaper and clean pages with very light occasional spotting to plates. Overall an attractive publisher's cloth copy. Smith I 10. Often regarded as one of Dickens' finest novels Bleak House follows the long-running Court of Chancery case Jarndyce v. Jarndyce a complicated lawsuit that involves almost every class of English society and heavily criticizes the moral shortcomings of the British judicial system. With Bleak House illustrator Hablot Knight Browne continued his experimental use of dark plates of which there are ten - a significant increase from the singular dark plates in his preceding two novels Dombey and Son and David Copperfield. Additionally Browne continues the use of horizontal illustrations in Bleak House another technique he began with Dombey with almost half of the illustrations here being in this layout. Bleak House is a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Browne H.K. London: Bradbury and Evans hardcover
1860148395London 1860. Autograph letter signed by great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. One page dated Friday 20th July 1860 on bifolium of Gad's Hill Place stationery and addressed to Sir Alexander Duff Gordon. Boldly signed by Dickens with his usual flourish. The letter reads in full "When you dined at Tavistock House you mentioned a school at Brighton of which you had a high opinion. I am looking about for a school for my two youngest boys and should be much indebted to you if you would tell me what manner of school this is that you commended---as for example for boys of what ages it is designed and what the charges are. Very possibly it may be too young a school for my purpose as I would rather place the boys where they could remain. But I am unwilling to throw a chance away. Do not mind how brief you answer. Yours faithfully Charles Dickens." From the date of the letter the children in question seem most likely to have been Henry Fielding Dickens born 1849 and Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens born 1852. In near fine condition with mail folds and tipped at head to a backing sheet. The letter measures 4.5 inches by 7 inches. English writer and social critic Charles Dickens created some of the world'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 twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. unknown
18411494281841. Rare autograph note by great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. One page dated ninth June 1841 and signed in the third person to John Critchley Prince. The note reads in full "From Mr. Charles Dickens in payment of his subscription to Mr. Prince's Poems. With every friendly wish that can encourage and cheer him in his onward path. 1 Devonshire Terrace York Gate Regents Park Ninth June 1841." The recipient John Critchley Prince 1808-66 was a Lancashire-born poet and weaver known as the "Bard of Hyde" the "poet of the people" and the "factory bard." In 1840 he published his first book of poetry Hours with the Muses to which Dickens subscribed. Dickens and Prince became correspondents although little of their letters have survived with Dickens often praising the amateur poet encouraging his continued writing and offering him advice on publishing his work. Prince dedicated his Poetic Rosary 1851 to Dickens "as a sincere testimony of the high esteem in which his humanizing writings with their wide and generous sympathies are held by his obedient servant the author." In very good condition. Framed with one issue of Dickens's All the Year Round December 5 1874; No. 314 New Series to the left and an engraved portrait of Dickens to the right. The note measures 4 inches by 4.625 inches. The entire piece measures 30.75 inches by 19.5 inches. English writer and social critic Charles Dickens created some of the world'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 twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. unknown
1867150124London 1867. Autograph letter signed by great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens to his biographer. One page dated Monday 7th October 1867 on Gad's Hill Place stationery and addressed to John Forster. Boldly signed by Dickens with his usual flourish. The letter reads in full "I have been very much interested and gratified by that pleasant Passage from Mr. Bigelow's letter concerning me. As you say you are going to write to him pray tell him as much and I assure him that I shall hope to become his friend on the other side of the Atlantic. Your affectionate Charles Dickens." The recipient John Forster 1812–1876 was a prominent Victorian literary critic and biographer best known for The Life of Charles Dickens a foundational work in nineteenth-century literary biography. As a close friend and confidant of Dickens Forster combined privileged access to personal papers with a documentary fact-driven approach that helped establish biography as a serious scholarly genre rather than a purely commemorative form. Double matted and framed with an engraved portrait of Charles Dickens. In very good condition. The letter measures 4.5 inches by 7 inches. The entire piece measures 20 inches by 17.5 inches. English writer and social critic Charles Dickens created some of the world'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 twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. unknown
46300DICKENS Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son Wholesale Retail and for With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. 20 parts in 19 original pictorial wrappers. London: Bradbury and Evans October 1846 to April 1848. First edition in the original monthly parts with many of the advertisements called for by Hatton & Cleaverpp. 227-50. Wrappers somewhat soiled; backstrips with chipping and repairs; slightly torn; some plates rather browned; former owners' signatures on several parts otherwise a very good set in two handsome full morocco solander cases.Parts 1 4-8 12-14 18 have ads per Hatton & Cleaver. Part 2 lacks 2-page slip for "Punch." Part 3 lacks last 2 pages of Chapman and Hall ads; "Punch" slip; "The Atlas" 2 page ad; "Richard's Universal Daily Remembrance" 4 pp. Parts 9 lacks 2 page Dakin ad in back. Part 10 lacks "Gilbert's Dictionary" 8-page ad in back. Part 11 lacks 2 page slip in back. Part 15 lacks Jerrold slip. Part 16 lacks slip after plates. Part 17 lacks ads in back except for 8-page C. Cox catalogue. Parts 19/20 lacks slip after plates.In addition Part 6 ad "Valuable Education Works" is on light green paper unrecorded by Hatton & Cleaver. Part 14 is early printing according to Hatton & Cleaver: page 431 lacks page number; Page 426 line 9 lacks first word "if unknown
1844376046Leipzig: J. J. Weber 1844. First German-language edition translated by E. A. Moriarty. Frontispiece and 7 etched plates by John Leech uniform half-title for Weber's collected edition of Dickens's works in German. In 8s 6 x 4 1/4 in.; 152 x 110 mm. Publisher's cloth-backed green marbled boards gray endpapers marbled edges; extremities rather rubbed. Leech John. First German-language edition translated by E. A. Moriarty. Frontispiece and 7 etched plates by John Leech uniform half-title for Weber's collected edition of Dickens's works in German. In 8s 6 x 4 1/4 in.; 152 x 110 mm. The first German editions of Dickens' first two Christmas books. Not in the Gimbel collection and rare on the market. All of John Leech's illustrations for the original English edition including the four wood-engraved text vignettes are rendered as etched plates for this edition. Gimbel/Podeschi D4 for later collected German ed. but see note for this ed. J. J. Weber unknown
1846240414<p>London: Bradbury And Evans 1846-1848. True First Edition. Octavos. Fine. H. K. Browne -40 plates. Octavos. The paper wrappers of this set are unrepaired and remarkable free of breaks or spllitting. Three or four of the parts beginning at pt. 7 have discrete inked names at the top. <br /><br />IN MONTHLY PARTS. 20 parts in 19 monthly issues. Eckel p. 74ff.; Sadleir 687; Hatton & Cleaver pp. 225 ff. Matches the descriptions of this Parts Issue in Hatton & Cleaver with the following refinements: pt. 4 - in the rear ads no. 7 "Cheap and Elegant" appears in the first position; pt. 5 - the engraved plates are in reverse order and there is an insterted 4pp. advert. for the "Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Charles Dickens." here and not in pt. 6; pt. 6 - the engraved plates are reverse and it lacks the 1st rear ad for "Valuable Educations Works" ; pt. 9 - no alternative inset in the rear adverts present in some copies and p. 284 has the errrata reading of "Delight" for "Joy". ; pt. 10 includes Phiz's 1st horizontal plate at no. 20; pt. 11 - 2d state with "Capatin" corrected to "Captain"; pt. 12 - the date of '"October 1847" is in the earliest unbroken state; pt. 14 - 2d. state with page-number 431 and earliest issue of p. 426 with "if" omitted in line 9; pt. 15 - 16 Letts diary leaves quantitity varies among copies up to 18; pt. 17 rear ads all present but in the order of 3 4 1 2; pt. 19/20 has the preferrred two-line Errata not the later 8 lines.</p> Bradbury And Evans
