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18491083401849. London: Bradbury & Evans Whitefriars May 1849 - November 1850. <br /> <br /> 8vo 20 monthly parts in 19 as issued 32 1-32 4; 12 33-64 12; 12 65-96 4; 8 97-128; 4 129-160; 8 161-192 8; 8 193-224 8; 14 225-256; 12 257-288 22; 12 289-320 8; 8 321-352; 8 353-384 2 8; 8 385-416; 8 417-448; 4 2 449-480 8; 4 481-512; 4 513-544 2; 8 2 545-576 8 1; 16 577-624 xiv 1 errata 8 4 8 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and title vignette. Original blue printed wrappers with trade advertisements to inner sides as well as outside back wrappers uncut with a variety of ads on teal pink and white paper bound-in. Housed in a blue morocco pull-off case with raised bands gilt titling and additional blue cloth portfolio with flaps. Some backstrips and hinges mended edges slightly rubbed and chipped occasionally minor foxing to plates overall remarkably good condition for such an ephemeral publication; very good. <br /> <br /> § First edition in the original parts of Dickens's favorite of his novels. It was the first of his major works to be written in the first person and by his own admission contained much autobiography: "a very complicated weaving of truth and invention" Letters VII 515. This set contains all of the advertisements slips steel engraved plates and specimens listed by Hatton & Cleaver except for rear insert "2" in part twelve eight pages or four; there are six specimens of Letts' Diaries in part eight Hatton & Cleaver 235-271. Eckel 75. unknown
1858263Forster2<p><strong>FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES DICKENS. </strong></p><p>Presentation copy from John Forster to Charles Dickens.</p><p>Original bookplate of Charles Dickens.</p><p><br /><br /></p><p>PRESENTATION COPY FROM JOHN FORSTER TO CHARLES DICKENS.</p><p>John Forster was one of his closest friends eventually writing the biography of Charles Dickens.</p><p>First Edition of a book by John Forster inscribed to Charles Dickens.</p><p>"The author to his most dear friend Charles Dickens"</p><p>7 February 1860.</p><p>John Forster 1812–1876 was a prominent English biographer critic and editor best known for his close friendship with Charles Dickens and for writing The Life of Charles Dickens 1872.</p><p>Dickens frequently inscribed presentation copies of his novels to Forster with affectionate messages often referring to him as his "dear" or "most dear" friend. Here is Forster gifting to Dickens in similar format.</p><p><br /><br /><br /></p><p>Additional bookplates of Edmund Yates also a close peer of Dickens.</p><p>Presumably Yates acquired these books at the Gadshill sale motivated by the association from Forster.</p><p>Some books from the Gadshill sale don't have Dickens actual bookplates.</p><p>This set has Dickens actual bookplate.</p><p><br /><br /></p><p>Charles Dickens bookplate.</p><p>Inscribed association gift from John Forster on a First Edition work by John Forster gifted to Charles Dickens.</p><p>Gadshill sale bookplates.</p><p>Edmund Yates bookplates close peer of Dickens.</p><p>One of the more significant books from the library of Charles Dickens still in private hands.</p><p><br /><br /><br /></p><p>John Forster 1812–1876 was a highly influential English biographer critic editor and historian best known for his intimate friendship with Charles Dickens and for authoring the seminal 3-volume biography The Life of Charles Dickens 1872–1874. He was a central figure in mid-19th-century London literary circles acting as an advisor agent and confidant to many prominent writers.</p><p><br /><br /></p><p>Edmund Yates 1831–1894 was a prominent Victorian journalist novelist and dramatist who was a close protégé of Charles Dickens. He contributed to Dickens's journals Household Words and All the Year Round.</p><p><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p>There are only three recorded copies of books by John Forster presented to Charles Dickens.</p><p>One copy is located in the Charles Dickens museum.</p><p>There is only one other book with the current location unknown.</p><p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p>Provenance:</p><p>Gifted to Charles Dickens from John Forster.</p><p>Original bookplates of Charles Dickens.</p><p>Original bookplates from the Gadshill sale in 1870.</p><p>This book appears in the Sotheran Charles Dickens Junior and Stonehouse catalogue records. Catalogued as 'Presentation Copy'. See picture 23.</p><p>Edmund Yates bookplates.</p><p>Old pencil record pricing at $135.</p><p>Hallmark Estate in Kansas City through local estate sale June 2025 without sale documentation.</p><p>Purchased from that buyer.</p><p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p>Historical and Biographical Essays.</p><p>By John Forster.</p><p>First Edition.</p><p>Printed in 1858.</p><p>Complete in 2 volume.</p><p>An anthology covering figures like Oliver Goldsmith Daniel Defoe and Sir Richard Steele alongside studies of the French Revolution and the Civil War.</p><p><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p>First Edition.</p><p>The bindings are original.</p><p>Bound in leather.</p><p>These are the original Victorian bindings.</p><p>Intricately gilded bindings.</p><p><br /><br /></p><p>This set is in good condition.</p><p>External chipping at the heads of the spines.</p><p>Covers attached.</p><p>Complete including the foldout rear volume one.</p><p>The bindings are original.</p><p>Quality rag paper.</p><p>Internal hinge paper is splitting.</p><p>Generalized abrasion.</p><p>Looseness from use.</p><p>Some foxing.</p><p>Some pencil provenance dealer marks upfront.</p><p><br /><br /></p><p>The books are approximately 8 inches tall.</p><p><br /><br /></p><p>Charles Dickens's Copy with his bookplate.</p><p>First Edition</p><p>Complete in Two Volumes</p><p>With Dickens's Personal Bookplates and 1870 Gadshill Library Dispersal Labels.</p><p>A superb association set from the personal library of Charles Dickens bearing both his engraved lion‑and‑cross bookplate and the original June 1870 Gadshill Place dispersal label—the very tag used when Dickens's belongings were sold shortly after his death.</p><p>A Genuine Dickens Library Book — With Both Provenance Markers Present</p><p>Dickens's personal bookplate: the gold lion couchant holding a Maltese cross adopted from the dormant 1625 coat of arms claimed by his father John Dickens. Though Dickens mocked social pretension in his fiction he embraced this heraldic device in his own life—using it on bookplates letterhead and household items.</p><p>The 1870 Gadshill Place sales label: "From the Library of Charles Dickens Gadshill Place June 1870." This label was created specifically for the posthumous auction of Dickens's personal effects and is one of the most authoritative indicators of authentic Dickens provenance.</p><p>Bibliographic & Historical Notes - Dickens's lion‑and‑cross emblem evolved over time as various engravers interpreted it differently. In 1840 Dickens clarified the design in a letter to cabinetmaker John Overs specifying that the lion should hold a Maltese cross not a cross patonce and even supplied a sketch. The bookplate seen here reflects that corrected form—one of the key identifiers used by bibliographers to authenticate volumes from his library.</p><p>Provenance -This exact copy appears in:</p><p>Sotheran's Price Current of Literature vols. CLXXIV 30 Nov. 1878 & CLXXV 31 Dec. 1878</p><p>J. H. Stonehouse Catalogue of the Library of Charles Dickens from Gadshill Place 1935 —</p><p><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><p>Condition - Good only. Poor externally. Leather shows edgewear; spines darkened; hinges cracked; scattered small stains.</p><p><br /><br /><br /></p><p>John Forster 1812–1876 was a prominent English biographer critic and editor best known for his close friendship with Charles Dickens and for writing The Life of Charles Dickens 1872.</p><p><br /><br /><br /></p><p>Your signature will be required for delivery.</p><p><strong>This will be well protected for shipping. </strong></p><p><br /><br /><br /></p><p><strong>Please see my other listings for similar books. </strong></p><p><br /><br /><br /></p><p><strong>26.2 26.3</strong></p>
1843261870London: Chapman and Hall 1843. First. hardcover. very good. Frontispiece & 3 plates by John Leech all hand colored as issued; 4 woodcut text illustrations. 2 pages of undated ads at end. 166 pages. Small slim 8vo light brown vertically ribbed cloth stamped in blind with single line & decorative border; gilt wreath surrounding the title; spine with gilt lettering & ornaments gilt edges. London: Chapman & Hall 1843. First Edition.<br/><br/> First issue with red & blue title page mottled green end-papers & Stave I at the beginning of the text. The binding is stained and the hinges are cracked but otherwise a clean sound copy in a red morocco solander case.<br/><br/> Chapman and Hall unknown books
1861001591London: Chapman and Hall 1861. Three volumes complete - Volume One - 5 2-344pp; Volume Two - 3 2-351pp 1; Volume Three - 3 2-344pp. Original blind stamped purple cloth title author volume number and publisher in gilt to spine. Slightly rubbed to extremities lightly dust stained to top edge of text block minor cocking. Internally a few spots to margins but generally quite bright and clean. Now housed in a leather entry slipcase made by Temple Bookbinders. Bound without the catalogue see Smith 'Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth' footnote 4 page 104. One of Dickens's best novels "the story that for many critics and for many 'common readers' too represents the very highest reach of Dickens's art as a novelist. this masterfully structured and brilliantly written story of money class sex and obsessive mental states with for the first time ever in Dickens's major fiction a protagonist who is unambiguously working-class" ODNB. An attractive set of the 'fifth edition' though as Smith notes the "first edition was followed by four other so-called editions actually issues on August 5 August 17 September 21 and October 30. These first five issues were probably printed at a single impression and published with altered title pages to imply and encourage a rapid sale" Smith 'Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth' page 103. Podeschi A146 fifth copy; Smith 14. Fifth Edition. Hardback. Good. 8vo. Chapman and Hall Hardcover
09151London 1850 i.e. May 1849-November 1850: Bradbury and Evans. First Edition. The present set collates complete with ALL the ads and slips called for by Hatton & Cleaver; ALL wrappers are correct. Twenty monthly parts in 19; octavo i-viiviiiixx-xiixiiixivxv-xvi 12-624. Forty inserted plates including the frontis and vignette title. Plates are very good to fine the majority being fine. Spines expertly renewed on several parts. The subscriber's name appears on the front wrap of 10 parts. The scarce Lett's Diary in part VIII has the leaf which folds out to 26 inches and 7 specimen leaves. In part XII the "Industry of All Nations" ad is unopened. Internally clean and bright throughout - an outstanding set in every respect. Housed in a turn-of-the-Century red full-leather pull-off-top solander clipcase with chemise. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 253-272. <br/><br/> Bradbury and Evans hardcover books
1840022295London: Chapman and Hall 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean; some rubbing to corners. Near Fine. George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Three volumes 7" x 10-1/2" bound by Riviere & Son in green crushed levant morocco leather neatly rebacked retaining the original spines with gilt-ruled covers gilt-decorated and lettered spines gilt dentelles top edges gilt with the original wrappers and advertisements bound in at the rear of each volume. Bound from the 88 original weekly parts with all the wrappers and ads but without the addresses. Illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Extensively EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with the last page of a personal letter by Dickens with a fine SIGNATURE; two fine ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS of Dickens; an India Proof portrait of Dickens; a four-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Thomas Sibson to Scottish poet and painter William Bell Scott; an ORIGINAL DRAWING by Sibson "The Old Man Imploring Quilp to make Further Advances"; an ORIGINAL DRAWING PENCIL DRAWING by Dickens illustrator J. Clayton Clark "The Traveling Showman"; an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWING by Clark; 72 extra plates by Sibson some inlaid as issued by Twas; 8 scarce plates by Phiz as issued by Chapman and Hall in sets of four; and 23 wood engravings. The M. C. D. Borden and John Kane copy with their bookplates on the front pastedowns and endpapers. This set last sold at auction in 1931 with the Dickens partial letter added by the purchaser in 1933 per pencil note and reads "Georgy and the girls unite in kindest love and in all the hearty good wishes that I send you for many many happy years to you and to all who are dear to you. The Sheriff of Midlothian a blaze of cravat and jewelry is shining at this moment in the garden through a dense fog like another species of Northern Light. I beg to present my dutiful respect to my noble Godson." <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover
184428883Philadelphia: Carey & Hart 1844. First American edition. Small 8vo illustrated with 8 plates after the originals by John Leech a hand-colored frontispiece three There is a hand colored frontispiece of Mr. Fezziwig's ball three colored plates that are lithographed by P. S. Duval and four black-and-white original brown cloth decorated and lettered in blind and gilt on the front cover and spine and in blind only on rear cover by J. C. Russell Binder. First American edition of Dickens' most popular work. replicating the first English edition the American edition was printed by "C. Sherman printer" as noted on the verso of the title-page. Carey & Hart's American publication was a piracy published in blatant disregard to Dickens' impassioned plea for international copyright protection during his tour of America in 1843. The present copy is in the rare gift binding stamped on the front cover with the binder's name unlike in the ordinary bindings. Edgar & Vail p. 21; Gimbel a80; McGuire Collection 31; Wilkins p. 38; Suzzanet Collection p. 190 item 78 the ordinary binding only. a short 1/8 inch closed tear at the top of the spine slight foxing to endpapers otherwise a remarkably fine copy of this edition far scarcer than the English edition. Enclosed in a red half-morocco folding box. <br/><br/> Carey & Hart hardcover books
1861107909Chapman and Hall 1861. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. First edition volume one is first issue or edition volume two is third issue or edition and volume 3 is the second issue or edition. It is believed the first five issues were all printed at the same time but the title pages were changed to say later editions to indicate rapid sales. Rebound in quarter leather and marbled paper. There were only 1000 copies of the true first edition represented by the first edition of volume one here. Very good condition. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case with leather spine and gold tooling and lettering. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
18381903016Richard Bentley 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The first edition first issue in book form published before the magazine serialization was completed. In original cloth. Very good condition. Housed in a custom case with a leather spine. This the first issue has the "Fireside" plate in volume 3 and Boz listed as the author on all title pages. It was issued on November 9 1838. At Dicken's insistence the Fireside plate was replaced with the "Church" plate and Dickens's name replaced Boz and the book was reissued in three volumes a mere 7 days after the first issue on November 16 1838. Richard Bentley hardcover books
18913598London: Chapman and Hall 1891. Reprint of the Illustrated Library Edition. Thirty octavo volumes 221 x 141 mm. Late 19th century full polished calf by Tout stamp-signed on the verso of the front free endpaper. Covers with gilt triple fillet border with gilt corner ornaments spines elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments with five gilt- dotted raised bands and red and green morocco gilt lettering labels board edges with gilt-dotted rule turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt top edge gilt others uncut marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities headcaps on Volumes IX X and XXI expertly repaired. Small bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown of each volume. Illustrated with plates after the originals by "Phiz" Hablot Knight Browne George Cruikshank Frederick Walker Edwin Landseer Daniel Maclise John Leech Marcus Stone George Cattermole and Luke Fildes. Partially unopened. A near fine set. <br/><br/> "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.<br/><br/>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 Companion to Dickens. <br/><br/>Gimbel D72. Chapman and Hall unknown books
184212588JBoston: 3 1/4 pages 9 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches January 31 1842. Original Autograph Letter Signed “Richd. H. Dana Jr.†written to Dana’s English publisher Edward Moxon describing the amazingly warm response of Americans to Charles Dickens visiting Boston. An absorbing letter showing Dana’s wonderful narrative abilities of which more than half is devoted to Dana’s account of Dickens’s stay in Boston during the English author’s celebrated first trip to America in 1842. Moxon was the British publisher of Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast and the recently issued The Seaman’s Friend. “. We have Dickens here with us & the whole town is crazy the author and his wife arrived in Boston from England on 22 January. I doubt if a literary man ever made such a ‘progress’ through a country as he is making through ours. Indeed I am certain it will be an era in literary history . From the moment the steamer was sighted up to this hour. The whole community has been in a high fever . he is obliged to refuse all visitors except at certain hours & then he holds a regular levee. The other day when he went to sit for his portrait on coming out he found the ante room staircase etc. lined with people young & old. One old lady asked him to stand still & let the ladies form a ring round so that all could see him. This was too much for his risibles & he laughed out & told her eager ladyship that he was sorry etc. but was in a hurry — & was going off; when the ladies called out to the artist ‘Do Mr. A. stop him! Don’t let him go!’ In the meanwhile the standard men of literature & wealth are paying him every attention & like him exceedingly . I have met him several times & like him very much. How full of life he is! . He told me much in the way of answering questions about yourself ‘ our friend’ as you call him Capt. Ives & others of whom I was curious to inquire . Dickens has told us many anecdotes of Charles Lamb some of which are not yet published & which interested us very much. You don’t know what a feeling there is here about Lamb .†Boston’s adulatory reception of the English writer reached its climax the next day 1 February with a great banquet held in his honor which Dana also attended. Dickens’s visit to the United States he returned to England in June resulted in his American Notes for General Circulation 1842. Written in brown ink on a bifolium of gray paper with small embossed stamp of T. Groom Boston; address panel postmark and remnants of red sealing wax. A rare view of Dickens in America through the eyes of a significant American writer. 3 1/4 pages (9 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches unknown books
18591083568vo. London: Chapman & Hall MDCCCLIX 1859. 8vo ix 1-254 16 etched plates including frontis and title vignette. Full olive green fine-diaper cloth entirely stamped in blind with a three line border which encloses a rectangular frame within which is is an ornament of leaves and stems in each corner and a chain-like design with each link enclosing a four-leafed flower. Housed in a green cloth slip-case. The head and tail of the backstrip are very slightly bumped with some sun toning; minor scattered foxing mostly near plates and some off-setting; a good clean copy in a beautifully preserved original cloth binding. § First edition in the rare secondary green cloth binding. Two of the eight internal flaws identified by Smith as necessary for the first issue have been corrected: “l†and “f†are printed on p.116 and 213 is numbered correctly. Of the latter point Eckel observes “The absence of this error does not invalidate a first edition but it fixes the priority of printing†and Smith concludes “this binding is probably of a later state than the red morocco cloth one†i.e. second issue. “When Dickens began the publication of All the Year Round the successor of Household Words he realized the necessity of making a strong start. So he began writing A Tale of Two Cities publishing the first of the serial in the opening number of his new periodical. As a novel of great popularity it probably ranks next to Pickwick and Copperfield†Eckel 87. This was the last novel in which Dickens worked with “Phiz†after a partnership of 23 years and was published on commission through the renewed partnership with Chapman & Hall. Podeschi A143. Thomson 89. Smith I 13. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
1843002191London: Chapman and Hall 1843 1843. FIRST EDITION SECOND ISSUE. 1 vol. 6-5/8" x 4-7/16" chapter heading reading "Stave One" illustrated with 4 hand colored engraved plates by John Leech and 4 black and white illustrations by W.J. Linton internally clean and bright. Bound in the original straight grained rose colored cloth gilt tile and wreath to spine and front cover yellow pastedowns and endpapers all edges gilt spine expertly relined front cover a little grubby but overall still a VERY GOOD copy. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843 hardcover
184428883Philadelphia: Carey & Hart 1844. First American edition. Small 8vo illustrated with 8 plates after the originals by John Leech a hand-colored frontispiece of Mr. Fezziwig’s ball three colored plates that are lithographed by P. S. Duval and four black-and-white original brown cloth decorated and lettered in blind and gilt on the front cover and spine and in blind only on rear cover by J. C. Russell Binder. First American edition of Dickens’ most popular work. replicating the first English edition the American edition was printed by “C. Sherman printer†as noted on the verso of the title-page. Carey & Hart’s American publication was a piracy published in blatant disregard to Dickens’ impassioned plea for international copyright protection during his tour of America in 1843. The present copy is in the rare gift binding stamped on the front cover with the binder’s name unlike in the ordinary bindings. Edgar & Vail p. 21; Gimbel a80; McGuire Collection 31; Wilkins p. 38; Suzzanet Collection p. 190 item 78 the ordinary binding only. a short 1/8 inch closed tear at the top of the spine slight foxing to endpapers otherwise a remarkably fine copy of this edition far scarcer than the English edition. Enclosed in a red half-morocco folding box. Carey & Hart unknown
184422332Philadelphia: Carey & Hart 1844. First American edition of Dickens' most popular work. Replicating the first English edition the American edition was printed by "C. Sherman printer" as noted on the verso of the title-page. Carey & Hart's American publication was a piracy published in blatant disregard to Dickens' impassioned plea for international copyright protection during his tour of America in 1843. The present copy is in the rare gift binding stamped on the front cover with the binder's name unlike in the ordinary bindings. Edgar & Vail p. 21. Gimbel A80. McGuire Collection 31. Wilkins p. 38. Suzzanet Collection p. 190 item 78 the ordinary binding only. A short 1/8 inch closed tear at the top of the spine slight foxing to endpapers otherwise a remarkably fine copy of this edition far scarcer than the English edition. Enclosed in a red half-morocco folding box. Small 8vo illustrated with 8 plates after the originals by John Leech 4 hand-colored & 4 black-and-white original brown cloth decorated and lettered in blind & gilt on the front cover and spine and in blind only on rear cover by J. C. Russell binder. A short 1/8 inch closed tear at the top of the spine slight foxing to endpapers otherwise a remarkably fine copy of this edition far scarcer than the English edition. Enclosed in a red half-morocco folding box. Carey & Hart unknown
18591083561859. London: Chapman & Hall MDCCCLIX 1859. <br /> <br /> 8vo ix 1-254 16 etched plates including frontis and title vignette. Full olive green fine-diaper cloth entirely stamped in blind with a three line border which encloses a rectangular frame within which is is an ornament of leaves and stems in each corner and a chain-like design with each link enclosing a four-leafed flower. Housed in a green cloth slip-case. The head and tail of the backstrip are very slightly bumped with some sun toning; minor scattered foxing mostly near plates and some off-setting; a good clean copy in a beautifully preserved original cloth binding.<br /> <br /> § First edition in the rare secondary green cloth binding. Two of the eight internal flaws identified by Smith as necessary for the first issue have been corrected: "l" and "f" are printed on p.116 and 213 is numbered correctly. Of the latter point Eckel observes "The absence of this error does not invalidate a first edition but it fixes the priority of printing" and Smith concludes "this binding is probably of a later state than the red morocco cloth one" i.e. second issue. "When Dickens began the publication of All the Year Round the successor of Household Words he realized the necessity of making a strong start. So he began writing A Tale of Two Cities publishing the first of the serial in the opening number of his new periodical. As a novel of great popularity it probably ranks next to Pickwick and Copperfield" Eckel 87. This was the last novel in which Dickens worked with "Phiz" after a partnership of 23 years and was published on commission through the renewed partnership with Chapman & Hall. Podeschi A143. Thomson 89. Smith I 13. unknown
184212588JBoston: 3 1/4 pages 9 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches January 31 1842. Original Autograph Letter Signed “Richd. H. Dana Jr.†written to Dana’s English publisher Edward Moxon describing the amazingly warm response of Americans to Charles Dickens visiting Boston. An absorbing letter showing Dana’s wonderful narrative abilities of which more than half is devoted to Dana’s account of Dickens’s stay in Boston during the English author’s celebrated first trip to America in 1842. Moxon was the British publisher of Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast and the recently issued The Seaman’s Friend. “. We have Dickens here with us & the whole town is crazy the author and his wife arrived in Boston from England on 22 January. I doubt if a literary man ever made such a ‘progress’ through a country as he is making through ours. Indeed I am certain it will be an era in literary history . From the moment the steamer was sighted up to this hour. The whole community has been in a high fever . he is obliged to refuse all visitors except at certain hours & then he holds a regular levee. The other day when he went to sit for his portrait on coming out he found the ante room staircase etc. lined with people young & old. One old lady asked him to stand still & let the ladies form a ring round so that all could see him. This was too much for his risibles & he laughed out & told her eager ladyship that he was sorry etc. but was in a hurry — & was going off; when the ladies called out to the artist ‘Do Mr. A. stop him! Don’t let him go!’ In the meanwhile the standard men of literature & wealth are paying him every attention & like him exceedingly . I have met him several times & like him very much. How full of life he is! . He told me much in the way of answering questions about yourself ‘ our friend’ as you call him Capt. Ives & others of whom I was curious to inquire . Dickens has told us many anecdotes of Charles Lamb some of which are not yet published & which interested us very much. You don’t know what a feeling there is here about Lamb .†Boston’s adulatory reception of the English writer reached its climax the next day 1 February with a great banquet held in his honor which Dana also attended. Dickens’s visit to the United States he returned to England in June resulted in his American Notes for General Circulation 1842. Written in brown ink on a bifolium of gray paper with small embossed stamp of T. Groom Boston; address panel postmark and remnants of red sealing wax. A rare view of Dickens in America through the eyes of a significant American writer. 3 1/4 pages (9 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches unknown
1853140943970London: Bradbury and Evans 1853. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. With textual errors: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" on page 209 line 23; "counsinship" on page 275 line 22. Bound in publisher's original green cloth decorated in blind with spine lettered in gilt. With 38 illustrated plates plus frontis and engraved title page. Near Fine or better with faint fading to the spine and a tiny nick to the crown foxing to endsheets and sporadically to text the plates tend to be tanned at the borders with some foxing as well. A fantastic copy in the original cloth without restoration or repair and extremely uncommon in such superlative condition. Bradbury and Evans unknown
1861149547London: Chapman and Hall 1861. First edition second impression of Dickens' rarest book one of only 750 copies. Octavo three volumes bound in full polished calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt-ruled turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Scarce second impression of the first edition with genuine first issue title pages. Vol. 1 with "recal" on p. 84 line 6; Vol. 2 with "their" for "her" on p. 162 line 21; Vol. 3 with "raving" for "staving on p. 37 line 25 etc. With the second impression points as noted in the Clarendon Press Edition including Vol. I. with a faulty comma after man p. 5 line 9; no full stop after "robbery" p. 42 line 5; Vol. II with no full stop affter "gloomily" p.187 line 16 etc. Bound without half-titles or advertisements. Only 1000 copies of the first issue and 750 copies of the second were printed and that probably most of the first and more than half of the second 1400 copies in all were purchased by Mudie’s Select Library. Eckel pp. 91-93; Sadleir 688; Smith I:14. In very good condition. An exceptional set. Dickens' penultimate novel Great Expectations was written in "the afternoon of his life and fame" G.K. Chesterton. The novel contains some of Dickens' most memorable scenes including its opening set in a graveyard when the young orphan Pip is accosted by escaped convict Abel Magwitch. Upon its release the novel received near universal acclaim. Although Dickens' contemporary Thomas Carlyle referred to it disparagingly as "that Pip nonsense" he nevertheless reacted to each fresh instalment with "roars of laughter." Later George Bernard Shaw praised the novel as "all of one piece and consistently truthful." During the serial publication Dickens was pleased with public response to Great Expectations and its sales; when the plot first formed in his mind he called it "a very fine new and grotesque idea." Chapman and Hall unknown
18381903016Richard Bentley 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. The first edition first issue in book form published before the magazine serialization was completed. In original cloth. Very good condition. Housed in a custom case with a leather spine. This the first issue has the "Fireside" plate in volume 3 and Boz listed as the author on all title pages. It was issued on November 9 1838. At Dicken's insistence the Fireside plate was replaced with the "Church" plate and Dickens's name replaced Boz and the book was reissued in three volumes a mere 7 days after the first issue on November 16 1838. Richard Bentley hardcover
1843319 - 970 - 175<p>First editions of all five of Dickens' Christmas books. Uniformly bound in striking full crimson morocco by George Bayntun early twentieth century; stamped "Bayntun Bath England" on the turn-ins with gilt holly leaf motifs lettering fillet borders dentelles and edges. Hand-marbled endpapers. The original cloth covers are bound in at the rear. The first two were published by Chapman & Hall; the last three by Bradbury & Evans. <br /><br />All five are first impressions but with mixed issue points. Edition and condition details provided below in separate sections.</p><p><strong>Edition Details</strong></p><ol><li><strong>A Christmas Carol. </strong>First impression with the title page dated 1843 printed in blue and red but faded; see condition section and no edition statement. The textual errors remain uncorrected which distinguishes the first impression from all later impressions collated by hand against all entries in Smith II:4. Period faint after "gloom" on p 21 noted by Smith in a minority of first editions. Second state of the chapter headings with the numbers spelled out "Stave One". Second issue of the original cloth cover: the "D" in "Dickens" lacks the upper serif and the closest gap between the wreath and blindstamping is 12-13 mm. With a hand-colored frontispiece and three additional plates by Leech and in-text wood-engravings by Linton after Leech. Smith II:4; Todd 1967. <br /><br /></li><li><strong>The Chimes. </strong>First impression with the title page post-dated 1845 but printed 1844 and no edition statement. Second state of the title vignette publisher imprint centered and at the foot. With an etched frontispiece and vignette by Daniel Maclise; additional plates and wood-engravings after Doyle Leech and Stanfield. Smith II:5. <br /><br /></li><li><strong>The Cricket on the Hearth. </strong>First impression with the title page post-dated 1846 but printed 1845 and no edition statement. Second state of the Oliver Twist ad leaf "New Edition". With a half-title an etched frontispiece and vignette by F. P. Becker after Maclise; in-text illustrations after Doyle Leech and others. Smith II:6. <br /><br /></li><li><strong>The Battle of Life. </strong>First impression with the title page dated 1846. Fourth state of the vignette title Cupid with "A Love Story" banner and no publisher imprint underneath. With an etched frontispiece and vignette by Daniel Maclise; wood-engravings after Doyle Leech and Stanfield. Smith II:8. <br /><br /></li><li><strong>The Haunted Man. </strong>First impression with the title page dated 1848 and no edition statement. First and only state of the vignette titles. With an etched frontispiece and vignette by Martin & Corbould after Tenniel; in-text illustrations after Leech Stanfield Tenniel and Stone. Smith II:9.</li></ol><p><strong>Condition Details</strong> Small octavos approximately 6.5 x 4.25 inches. Bindings tight; leather boards supple gilt bright overall with minor losses to edges and gilt fillet borders on the front and rear boards. A few minor isolated darker spots rubbing and shallow surface indentations from handling. No bookplates underlining or prior owner markings. Contents largely clean with only an occasional light stain or age spot. All volumes retain their original cloth covers and spines bound in at the rear. Some leaves show signs of gentle cleaning most noticeably the title page of <em>A Christmas Carol</em> resulting in fading especially of the blue ink and very subtly to the vignette titles of other volumes without discernable fading. Likely this was done by Bayntun himself at the time of rebinding as similar treatment has been observed in his other bindings including another copy of <em>A Christmas Carol</em> and was standard practice of the era see Zaehnsdorf 1890; Cockerell 1901. <em>A Christmas Carol</em> shows a small dent to the fore-edge of the text block a marginal chip to the illustration page of the Ghost of Christmas Present and a discreetly mended tear to the margin of that same leaf neither flaw affects the image as shown. All four plate leaves are lightly tanned. Bound without the terminal ad leaf as common else complete. In the other four volumes the ad leaves are present and the illustration plates are all complete intact and undamaged. The title vignettes of The Haunted Man are noticeably darkened and stained mainly on the edges. Additional pictures available upon request. A finely preserved and visually striking set.</p><p><strong>Binder Note</strong></p><p>The turn-ins are gilt-stamped "Bayntun Bath England" confirming the work predates the firm's 1939 acquisition of Riviere. The Bayntun-Riviere bindery remains one of the most celebrated of the twentieth century known for its technical precision and visual elegance and continues to operate under the same name today.</p><p>-</p><p><em>"I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year."</em> — A Christmas Carol Stave IV</p><p>In 1843 desperate for income and determined to make a moral statement Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in six weeks and paid for its production himself. He rejected cheap formats insisting on gilt-edged pages hand-colored illustrations and cloth boards stamped in gold. Although the first impression sold out within days high production costs and disputes over profits left him with little return. Each of the Christmas books that followed carried the same intent: to unite moral purpose with visual warmth and seasonal charm. Dickens wanted his Christmas books to be beautiful. This set rebound by Bayntun in full crimson morocco honors the beauty he demanded at personal and financial risk.</p><p><strong>Reference List</strong><br /><br />Smith W. E. 1983. Charles Dickens in the original cloth: A bibliographical catalogue of the first appearance of his writings in book form in England with photographs of the bindings titlepages and other relevant data. Part Two: The Christmas books and selected secondary works. Heritage Book Shop.</p><p>Todd W. B. 1961. Note 170. Dickens's Christmas Carol. The Book Collector 10Winter 449–454.</p><p>Zaehnsdorf J. W. 1890. The art of bookbinding: A practical treatise for amateurs 2nd ed. Sampson Low Marston & Co.</p><p>Cockerell D. 1901. Bookbinding and the care of books. Macmillan & Co.</p><p>Inventory ID: 319 - 970 - 175</p> Chapman & Hall; Bradbury & Evans hardcover
1937OCB6114Charles Dickens. The Nonesuch Press London 1937 - 1939 23 volumes and a book-form case titled "Plate" containing a woodcut plate entitled "<i>Leaving the Old Curiosity Shop</i>" drawn by George Cattermole for Chapman & Hall Ltd. a print of the woodcut and letter from Chapman & Hall guaranteeing the plate's authenticity. Edited by Arthur Waugh Hugh Walpole Walter Dexter and Thomas Hatton. Limited to 877 copies a limitation based on the number of illustrations in the first editions of Dickens where each set received one of the 877 illustration wood or steel blocks. Each volume with the Ex Libris <b>bookplate </b>of Carlotta and Eugene O'Neill. Carlotta's fourth marriage was to O'Neill; his third marriage. O'Neill had instructed his publisher to wait 25 years after his death before publishing <i>Long Day's Journey Into Night</i> however Carlotta took the play to another publisher whereupon it was published less than 18 months after O'Neill died. The play was produced in 1956 on Broadway and won a Pulitzer Prize for O'Neill posthumously. Bold variant buckram binding leather title plate at spine. In good condition rubbing. The Nonesuch Press hardcover
1838126341838. our finest copy evah or The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz." In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley 1838. 4 pp Vol I undated ads; 2 preliminary pp Vol III undated ads. Original purplish-brown fine-diaper cloth. First Edition first issue of this classic novel that has also been a hit as a Broadway musical. This is the "true first edition" not merely the "first edition in book form." Unlike most of Dickens's novels OLIVER TWIST was not first issued in monthly serial parts; it did appear in "Bentley's Miscellany" magazine from February 1837 through April 1839 but this three-volume edition was published in November 1838. OLIVER TWIST was finally issued in ten serial parts in 1846 -- one of the scarcest "Dickens in parts." Within a week after initial publication copies began to be issued at Dickens's insistence with his name on the title pages rather than "Boz" and with the "church" plate replacing the "fireside" plate. This copy is of the first issue -- with "Boz" on the title pages and with the "fireside" plate at the end of Vol III. This set is in the primary fine-diaper cloth some copies are in horizontally-ribbed cloth of the same color but with a different arabesque design -- precedence unknown. This copy does have the "London/Bentley" imprint at the foot of the spines where some copies are blank; it has been surmised that the blank binding is earlier if only because Bentley would have been more likely to add than to remove his name from the volumes -- though precedence is far from certain. Lastly the list of illustrations in Vol I is present in this copy: again it is uncertain whether its absence or its presence was the earlier state though it is possible that Bentley may have begun inserting it when he realized that George Cruikshank's name had otherwise been omitted from the publication. Bear in mind that the second issue with Dickens's name on the title pages was out within a week of the first; therefore all of these questions of precedence among issue points involve only a few days. This set is in FINE condition: there is essentially no external wear to the cloth the spine gilt remains bright the original yellow endpapers exhibit only the merest hint of cracking there is scarcely any foxing at all on the textual leaves or plates. in fact the ONLY notable flaw is that on two covers there is a faint partial glass-ring. Period. This is the best copy we have offered in our 35 years in business. Smith I pp 28-37; Gimbel A27; Eckel pp 59-61; Carter BV p. 107 and MBV p. 7. Housed in a morocco-backed clamshell case. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1838140940185London: Richard Bentley 1838. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition. First issue with Boz listed as the author on all title pages and with the Fireside plate as the final plate in Volume III. i-iv 12-3311 blank 4 ads; i-iv 12-307308; i-iv 12-315316 no half-title called for in Vol. III. Twenty-four inserted plates by George Cruikshank. Bound in publisher's primary original reddish-brown cloth decorated in blind arabesque pattern on on front cover with spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight fading to spines cloth lightly marked. Several previous owner names and bookplates to front and rear pastedowns. Rear inner hinge of Volume I started at top. Spine cloth of Volume III partially split along rear joint and large corner of rear free endpaper has been filled in otherwise free of restoration work. A fantastic set or one of Dickens' best-known works in the original cloth. Richard Bentley unknown books
18606097<p>Chapman & Hall London 1860's-1870's. Illustrated Library Edition. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. VGC.Chapman & Hall London 1860's-1870's.Illustrated Library Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens in complete 26 octavo volumesI to XXVI.This set was reissued between 1861 and 1874 with illustrations and was called the Illustrated Library Edition.Hardbacksmarbled front and back covers gilt lettering to the spine bound in mainly contemporary half leatherfour volumes are in more recent half leather small nicks and dents on the edges of the covers and spines in VGC. Illustrated with many b/w plates.Nice and clean pages with small ink markscreases and nicks on the edges of the pagessmall foxing marks inside some of the pages pages 49-50 in volume I are slightly loose previous owner's name written on a sticker inside the front cover of each book except for 4 volumes marbled endpapers and edges of the pages. The front cover of volume XII has come loose but is repairable. Illustrations by George Cruikshank H. K. Browne.The collection is in VGC for its age with light shelf wear. A collectable and scarce early edition of The Works of Charles Dickens. Please note: This is heavy setapprox 22 Kg. Books sizes: 7.9 x 4.9 inches.</p><p>This is another paragraph</p><p>The books are as follows: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2 volumes no date given but probably 1867 Nicholas Nickleby2 volumes dated 1869 Martin Chuzzlewit2 volumes dated 1969 Old Curiosity Shop & Reprinted Pieces2 volumes Barnaby Rudge2 volumes including Hard Times Sketches by BozOliver Twistdated 1868 David Copperfield2 volumesdated 1870 Pictures from Italy Bleak House 2 volumesdated 1867 Little Dorrit 2 volumes dated 1862 & 1867 Christmas Booksdated 1868 Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations dated 1866 Our Mutual Friend2 volumes dated 1869 Dombey and Son2 volumes dated 1868.The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club includes Charles Dicken's prefacein his preface to the 1867 edition Dickens strenuously denied any specific input writing that Mr Seymour never originated or suggested an incident a phrase or a word to be found in the book. Also on the second page of the The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club volume I it is printed: The Best Edition of my Books Is Of Right Inscribed to my Dear Friend John Forster Biographer of Oliver Goldsmith. Many Patient Hours he has Devoted to the Correction of the Proof Sheets of the Original Editions; And in Affectionate Acknowledgement of His Councel Sympathy And Faithful Friendship During My Whole Literary Life.</p><p>This is another paragraph</p><p>Later Editions: Upon completion of serialization the works were issued as complete novels in one to three volumes with original and in some instances additional illustrations. Starting in 1847 the older novels were reissued in what was called the Cheap Edition these were published in weekly and monthly parts and then as complete novels. Eventually all of Dickens' novels were reissued in the Cheap Edition. The concept of the Cheap Edition was similar to today's practice of reissuing hardback novels as more affordable paperbacks. Other editions published during Dickens lifetime include the Library Edition: a high quality set published without illustrations in 1858/59. This set was reissued between 1861 and 1874 with illustrations and was called the Illustrated Library Edition. In 1867 the Charles Dickens Edition was released. This edition featured new prefaces written by Dickens who also made minor corrections to the text. Chapman and Hall produced the Peoples Edition in 1865-1867 these were inexpensive monthly installments of the novels aimed at travelers in the very popular bookstalls popping up in railway stations all over Britain. Dickens' works were also published in America sometimes simultaneously with the British edition and often with little or no compensation to the author or his publishers due to the lack of an international copyright law. Dickens campaigned unsuccessfully for international copyright during his first American visit in 1842. An English-American copyright law would not be enacted until 1891. Dickens novels continue to be published today in popular series like the Oxford Illustrated Edition which include the original illustrations and the Penguin English Library's paperback edition.</p><p>This is another paragraph</p><p>About the Author: Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth where his father was a clerk in the navy pay office. The family moved to London in 1823 but their fortunes were severely impaired. Dickens was sent to work in a blacking-warehouse when his father was imprisoned for debt. Both experiences deeply affected the future novelist. In 1833 he began contributing stories to newspapers and magazines and in 1836 started the serial publication of Pickwick Papers. Thereafter Dickens published his major novels over the course of the next twenty years from Nicholas Nickleby to Little Dorrit. He also edited the journals Household Words and All the Year Round. Dickens died in June 1870.</p> Chapman & Hall, London hardcover
