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197059478London England: Victoria and Albert Museum. As New. 1970. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - pp. With 91 ills. 28 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Victoria and Albert Museum paperback
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70333London: Bradbury and Evans 1846. Christmas story FIRST EDITION second state engraved title-page. Scarce. Octavo 17 x 11cm pp.8 175 3. With thirteen engraved illustrations by various artists including a frontispiece and vignette title-page by Daniel Maclise. Publisher's red ribbed cloth border ornamentation blocked in blind to boards. Pictorial designs and titles in gilt to upper and spine. All edges gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Publisher's advertisements to rear. Lightly toned throughout; basically clean but for a small adhesive stain to pp.175 and some faint spotting to rear flyleaf recto. A couple light pencil notes to front endpaper. Toning to cloth two very small black ink flecks to upper and one to lower. Effectively re-spined. Gentle edgewear. A bright crisp copy. Very good. The fourth of Dickens' Christmas novellas published first as books rather than in serial. The story is the only one in the series that doesn't involve the supernatural. Instead it bears resemblance to an Austenesque romance. This copy possesses the rare second state engraved title-page differentiated from the three other designs by the position and lettering of the 'A Love Story' at the bottom. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846 unknown
1857008557London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First edition bound from the original monthly parts. Full leather. This is the first edition finely bound from the original nineteen monthly parts. As was custom with many Dickens novels the publisher Bradbury & Evans originally serialized Little Dorrit between December 1855 and June 1857 before publication in book form concurrent with the end of serialization on 30 May 1857. <br /> <br />The magnificent fine binding by Zaehnsdorf is full polished tan calf. The covers feature triple gilt rule borders with corner devices framing a blind-tooled inner border. The spine features raised bands green title label in the second compartment black author label in the fourth compartment and a narrow green 1857 date label at the spine heel each label gilt rule bracketed and tooled. Each unlabeled spine compartment features a central gilt rose motif framed by extensive gilt bracketing and tooling. The spine ends and cover edges are gilt-hatched. The contents are bound with red green and gold silk head and tail bands gilt top edges and marbled endpapers framed by gilt dentelle turn-ins. Condition of the binding is near fine sharp-cornered clean tight and square with sound joints and only trivial blemishes and scuffs. <br /> <br />Curiously BOUND BY ZAEHNSDORF FOR G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS" is stamped on the lower left corner of the front free endpaper verso. The renowned Zaehnsdorf Bindery was founded in London in 1842 by Austria-Hungary-born Joseph Zaehnsdorf 1816-1886 and run by him his son and his grandson for over one hundred years. Asprey acquired Zaehnsdorf in 1983. Hence this binding predates Asprey's acquisition. The expressly stated commission of this binding by U.S. publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons is an intriguing mystery. On George Palmer Putnam's death in 1872 the business was inherited by his sons and the firm's name was changed to G. P. Putnam's Sons. It has been an imprint of The Penguin Group since 1996. <br /> <br />The near fine contents are well-suited to the binding clean and bright with no spotting soiling or previous ownership marks. Age-toning is mild evident only to the otherwise clean untrimmed fore and bottom edges. Following the text the original advertisements from the serialization are bound in at the rear between the original blue covers for Issue No. II of January 1856. <br /> <br />The book is housed in a quarter brown Morocco goatskin Solander with red Morocco spine label red buckram sides and felt-lined interior. Condition of the Solander is very good. <br /> <br />English writer and social critic Charles John Huffam Dickens 1812-1870 is widely regarded the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Little Dorrit was published at the height of Dickens celebrity just before he began performing public readings of his works to an adoring public and shows the authors confidence in the public appetite for his social criticism. Little Dorrit is the saddest of all his novels and also according to Shaw 'a more seditious book than Das Kapital' Shaw on Dickens 51 bringing together scathing criticism of the country's governing institutions here represented by the all-powerful and all-pervading 'Circumlocution Office' a vivid portrayal in the story of Mrs Clennam of the harshly Calvinistic version of Christianity that was so strong in Victorian culture and a depiction of the public greed and gullibility that produces the frenzy of speculation associated with the activity of the swindling financier Mr. Merdle together with Dickens's deeper personal preoccupations about his childhood sufferings and his father's shaming imprisonment in the Marshalsea. Dickens Fresh from lambasting the judicial system in Bleak House here went after the machinery of government through his portrayal of the Circumlocution Office staffed entirely by a dynasty of Barnacles positively thriving on the business of chaos. As in A Christmas Carol poverty and the social structures in place to keep the downtrodden low are again his true target." <br /> <br />References: Smith II 12; ODNB; Independent <br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans hardcover
1850146291850. This is a complete set Dickens's annual "Extra Christmas Numbers" -- all nine of HOUSEHOLD WORDS followed by all nine of ALL THE YEAR ROUND. London: Dec. 1850 - Dec. 1858 and Dec. 1859 - Dec. 1867. Original self-wrappers first 13 numbers and original blue printed wrappers last five numbers -- as issued.<br/> <br/> First Editions of all eighteen pieces. Dickens was the editor or "conductor" of both of these periodicals -- one rising out of the ashes of the other -- but he also wrote at least part of the Christmas story in each of these eighteen numbers. The stories in HOUSEHOLD WORDS are: 1850 "A Christmas Tree" is by CD 1851 "What Christmas is as we Grow Older" is by CD 1852 A ROUND OF STORIES "The Poor Relation's Story" and "The Child's Story" are by CD 1853 ANOTHER ROUND OF STORIES "The Schoolboy's Story" and "Nobody's Story" are by CD 1854 THE SEVEN POOR TRAVELLERS "The First Poor Traveller" and "The Road" are by CD 1855 THE HOLLY-TREE INN "The Guest" "The Boots" and "The Bill" are by CD; the rest is by Wilkie Collins 1856 THE WRECK OF THE GOLDEN MARY most of "The Wreck" plus the hymn on p. 21 are by CD; the rest is by Wilkie Collins 1857 THE PERILS OF CERTAIN ENGLISH PRISONERS chapters I and III are by CD; chapter II is by Wilkie Collins 1858 A HOUSE TO LET "Going into Society" is by CD The stories in ALL THE YEAR ROUND are: 1859 THE HAUNTED HOUSE "The Mortals in the House" "The Ghost in Master B's Room" and "The Ghost in the Corner Room" are by CD -- as well as all but one of the other opening paragraphs 1860 A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA chapters I II and V plus passages in other chapters are by CD; the rest is by Wilkie Collins 1861 TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND chapters I VI and VII are by CD 1862 SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE the first second part of the third seventh and tenth chapters are by CD 1863 MRS. LIRRIPER'S LODGINGS chapters I and VII are by CD 1864 MRS. LIRRIPER'S LEGACY chapters I and VII are by CD 1865 DOCTOR MARIGOLD'S PRESCRIPTIONS chapters I VI and VIII are by CD 1866 MUGBY JUNCTION the first four chapters are by CD -- as indicated on the front cover 1867 NO THOROUGHFARE the Overture Act III and parts of Acts I and IV are by CD; the rest is by Wilkie Collins listed as co-author All eighteen numbers are in very good-plus or near-fine condition with only very minor edge-wear and soil though the 1851 issue has a couple of closed tears on the front wrapper and an ink-mark on the rear. Five of the numbers HhW 1854 through 1858 still have unopened leaves; a few appear that they might once have been bound up though not trimmed or anything. They are housed in a modern cloth case with inner chemise. Though the last five numbers the ones in blue wrappers are not uncommon the others have become rather scarce; it is now quite unusual to encounter a complete collection of all eighteen. Eckel pp 193-197 "In good state they a complete set are hard to find" -- this in 1932!. unknown
06138London: J .M. Dent & Co. 1905. Charles Dickens' Christmas Books <br /> Illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock<br /> <br /> DICKENS Charles. BROCK C.E. illustrator. Christmas Books. With Illustrations by C.E. Brock. London: J.M. Dent 1905-1909. <br /> <br /> Five small octavo volumes 7 x 4 1/2 inches; 178 x 114 mm. With a total of forty color plates and forty-eight illustrations in the text by Charles Edmund Brock. <br /> <br /> Full vellum covers and spine elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt top edge gilt others uncut. Boards slightly splayed otherwise a fine set. Bookplate of Ernest Gould Williams on front paste-down of first volume.<br /> <br /> The titles:<br /> A Christmas Carol<br /> The Haunted Man<br /> The Battle of Life<br /> The Cricket on the Hearth<br /> The Chimes<br /> <br /> Following the overwhelming success of A Christmas Carol in 1843 Dickens embarked upon the Christmas Books project seeking to marshal "the Carol philosophy . in order to strike a sledgehammer blow" for England's lower classes. He continued publishing the Christmas Books throughout the 40s and the stories became mainstays of Dickens's public reading tours of the 1850s and 1860s.<br /> <br /> Charles. Edmund. Brock 1870-1938 was a widely published English line artist and book illustrator who earned his first book commission at age twenty. He became a very successful illustrator best known for his line work initially in the tradition of Hugh Thomson but he was also a skilled colorist. Brock's work varied with the sort of story he was illustrating some of it refined and described as "sensitive to the delicate teacup-and-saucer primness and feminine outlook of the early Victorian novelists" while other work was "appreciative of the healthy boisterous thoroughly English characters" i.e. soldiers rustics and "horsey types." Other illustrations were grotesqueries drawn to amuse children looking at or reading storybooks. London: J .M. Dent & Co., 1905 unknown
184417919London: Chapman and Hall 1844. First Edition. Full leather. Near fine. First edition first issue of The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens published in 1844. Octavo xiv 624pp. Blue morocco binding portrait of Dickens in gilt on front cover. Five raised bands title in gilt on spine with decorative compartments. All edges gilt with gilt turn-ins. Marbled endpapers. Finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath England with bindery imprint on front endpaper. Solid text block nearly fine with a few small scratches to gilt edges. A touch of foxing to plates. Complete with 38 full-page illustrated plates with a frontispiece and vignette title. This is the first completed issue with the vignette title showing a "100 £" reward sign affixed to the post. Includes first issue errors such as single quotes on page 163 no dot on the i in "time" on page 311 and "thresh-hold" on page 587. Eckel 66 Smith 7 Hatton and Cleaver 185-212. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit was originally published as a 20-part monthly serial from January 1843 through July 1844. Chapman and Hall unknown
18392491London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First edition. Very Good. A rare copy of Nickleby in the original publisher's cloth. This copy without some of the earliest issue points: pg. 123 and pg. 160 with corrected spellings first four plates without Chapman and Hall imprints. A Very Good copy with wear to the cloth along the lower spine hinge and at the board edges. Original yellow end-papers with some splitting at the inner hinges. Moderate foxing to the plates pages generally clean. But on the whole and authentic and attractive copy of the first edition in book form. <br /> <br /> "Dickens' third novel has always been a favourite with the general public. Indeed it was the book's huge sales that enabled Dickens to give up parliamentary reporting and become a full-time writer.The theatricality of the novel attracted new and more appreciative critical attention and it demonstrates the inextricable link between public and private" Bannerjee. A satire tackling the injustices faced by both women and men within the Victorian class system that relied so heavily the social status of the patriarch the novel follows Nicholas Nickleby as he seeks to support his mother and sister after his father's death. When Nicholas' father dies after losing all of the family's money it is up to the young man to emerge as the new and more morally sound patriarch. Dashing and likable Nicholas ultimately prevails dodging shady characters along the way and securing a respectable life in Devonshire for his extended family. A favorite among Dickens' works Nicholas Nickleby has been adapted into a much-loved film. Very Good. Chapman and Hall unknown
183934820London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First edition early state in book form with the issue points as called for in first issue with "latter" for "letter" p.160 line 43; "flys" for flies on p. 245 line 10; and "visiters" for "visitors" on p. 272 line 2. also with the first state of the first two plates bearing the publisher’s imprint on bottom and with the portrait in first state. Engraved portrait frontispiece and 39 engraved illustrations by 'Phiz.' 8vo 3/4 styled red morocco over marbled boards with raised bands and gilt decorations. xvi 624 2 ads pp. A handsome copy the binding in fine condition and the text and plates are surprisingly clean. Discreet blind-stamps on the plates. FIRST EDITION EARLY STATE. ONE OF DICKENS’ MOST GROUNDBREAKING NOVELS. NICHOLAS NICKLEBY rode on the coattails of the success of THE PICKWICK PAPERS commissioned by Chapman and Hall in November of 1837 for Å150 per monthly installment which was ten times the amount Dickens had received for THE PICKWICK PAPERS. 1838 was an incredibly prolific year for Dickens; he worked on NICKLEBY concurrently with OLIVER TWIST and BARNABY RUDGE eventually deciding that the latter must be postponed in the interest of producing quality work on the projects already undertaken. In addition to his fiction that year he became the first editor of the periodical BENTLEY’S MISCELLANY in which OLIVER TWIST appeared. The success of NICKLEBY benefited from Dickens’ established popularity: the serial began in April 1838 and sold 48000 copies of the first installment. It ended in October 1839 and the bound edition followed within a few months of its completion.<br> NICHOLAS NICKLEBY represents the beginning of Dickens’ lifelong warfare against the bad old methods of education. He deals with social abuses while still maintaining his characteristic good humor attempting to address painful material while still “making the reader mirthful over every detail that can be turned into merriment.†His style of prose and character development ushered in a new school of intense realism of human portraiture and helped him early on to secure a place as a great figure in the annals of classic literature. Chapman and Hall hardcover
1840882283London:: Chapman and Hall 1840. 3/4 Geen Morocco. Excellent. 8vo. The First Edition in a wonderful decorative contemporay green morocco binding over marbled boards and marbled edges. Contents show some very light occasional foxing. Bindings are rubbed and corners show wear. But a lovely set notwithstanding. 3 Volumes. Chapman and Hall, hardcover
18533163<p>Hardcover Condition: Fine. 1st edition 1st issue. 624 pages. Almost no foxing. Beautifully bound by <strong>Bayntun-Riviere</strong>. Five raised bands with gilt image of Charles Dickens on cover and facsimile of Charles Dickens' signature on rear. Text block edges in gilt. Beautiful end papers. An exceptional copy. First edition issue points present: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" on page 209 line 23; "counsinship" on page 275 line 22. Forty plates Including frontis. Half-title is present.<br /><br />Additional shipping for international orders.</p> Bradbury and Evans hardcover
1865001851London: Chapman and Hall 1865 1865. FIRST EDITION A PERFECT SET IN THE ORIGINAL 19 PARTS. first issue of text with "pricipal" for "principal" in part 14 illustrated by Marcus Stone original pictorial blue paper wrappers a completely unsophisticated set with none of the spines being rebacked some wear to the head and foot of spines chipping to a few corners internally clean and bright housed in a red cloth clamshell box gilt lettered spine. A PERFECT SET. With the "Our Mutual Friend Advertiser" in each part an additional Ad in Part 18 for "Chapman & Hall's New Publications" not called for in Hatton & Cleaver otherwise matching all Hatton & Cleaver points. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865 hardcover
1839308986London: Chapman & Hall 1839. First. hardcover. near fine. Frontispiece portrait by Maclise. 39 Illustrations by Phiz. 8vo full tan leather by Bayntun with leather labels raised bands gilt decorated spine and dentelles all edges gilt. London: Chapman & Hall 1839. First Edition. Near fine.<br/> <br/> First state with the misprints on pages 245 272 & 160 with the first 4 plates bearing the publisher's imprint. Second state reading on p. 123.<br/> <br/> Chapman & Hall unknown
18501002Y36London: Bradbury and Evans 1850. First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". H. K. Browne . A smart first edition first impression of Charles Dickens' bildungsroman narrated by the eponymous David Copperfield. First edition first impression in book form.With the following first issue points identified by Eckel and Smith: dated 1850 to the engraved title page; Chapter XXVII is at page 282 rather than 283 as listed to the contents; the final 'i' to page viii is misaligned; misspelling of 'coroboration' to page 387 six lines from the bottom; and 'screamed' for 'screwed' to page 132 line 20. In a half calf binding with marbled paper covered boards. Bound without half title. Bound with the errata leaf with six lines of corrections.Illustrated by H. K. Browne 'Phiz' with a frontispiece engraved title page and thirty-eight plates. Collated complete.Charles Dickens' partially autobiographical novel chronicles the life journey of the eponymous David Copperfield. It begins like other novels by Dickens with a bleak picture of childhood in Victorian England followed by young Copperfield's slow social ascent as he painfully provides for his aunt while continuing his studies. In a half calf binding with marbled paper covered boards. Bound without half title. Externally smart with rubbing to the extremities and scuffs to the boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with occasional spots typically found and heaviest to the plates. Contemporary ownership inscription of one Robert Knight dated 1850 to the front endpaper. Very Good Bradbury and Evans hardcover
1850844g40London: Bradbury & Evans 1850. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". H. K. Browne Phiz . A smart first edition copy of Charles Dickens' renowned novel David Copperfield with illustrations throughout by Phiz. The first edition. With the following first issue points: Chapter XXVII is at page 282 rather than 283 as listed to the contents the final 'i' to page viii is misaligned misspelling of 'coroboration' to page 387 six lines from the bottom 'screamed' is not corrected to 'screwed' at page 132 line 20. Including six lines of errata. Rebound in full cloth with gilt detail to the spine. With an engraved title page and frontispiece alongside thirty-eight plates. Collated complete. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne known by his pen name "Phiz" an English illustrator who contributed his work to ten of Charles Dickens' books including 'Bleak House' and 'Dombey and Son'. A somewhat autobiographical novel Dickens's celebrated bildungsroman follows the eponymous character from infancy to maturity. Claimed by Dickens to be his own favourite amongst his works it marked a turning point in his oeuvre separating his novels of youth and those of maturity. The half title page is present. Rebound in full cloth. Externally very smart with some shelf wear to the edges. Light marks to the boards. Internally binding strained to the half title page but otherwise firmly bound. Pages age-toned but generally bright and clean. Spotting throughout heavier to the plates. Spotting and darkening to the frontispiece and engraved title page. Scattered handling marks throughout. Very Good Bradbury & Evans hardcover
1851111255London: Bradbury & Evans 1852-54 1851-53. In the original cloth First editions in book form. Dickens's history of England for children "intensely anti-aristocratic and anti-monarchical" ODNB originally appeared anonymously in Household Words between January 1851 and December 1853 with the volumes published in book-form in the December of those years post-dated to the following years. In style subject and composition the book differed from all Dickens's other works. 3 vols duodecimo. Each vol. with the half-titles and engraved frontispieces by F. W. Topham. Original red cloth gilt titles and decoration to spine blind stamped border and gilt pictorial decoration to front board marbled endpapers and edges. Spines slightly faded a couple of ink splashes to covers small puncture to spine of Vol. III minor wear to spine ends and tips some pencilled notes and the odd spot of foxing to contents. A very good set. Smith II 10. hardcover
1843158901843. Browne Hablot K. "With the Publisher's Compliments" His Relatives Friends and Enemies. Comprising all his wills and his ways; with an historical record of what he did and what he didn't. Edited by Boz. With Illustrations by "Phiz." London: Chapman & Hall 1843-1844. Original light blue-green pictorial wrappers.<br/> <br/> First Edition as originally issued in 20-in-19 monthly serial parts beginning in January 1843 and ending in July 1844. With MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT Dickens reverted to the conventional method of serializing his novels with monthly parts each illustrated with two engraved plates; after NICHOLAS NICKLEBY he had experimented with the idea of a weekly serial under the umbrella-title "Master Humphrey's Clock" illustrated with woodcuts within the text -- in which format THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP and BARNABY RUDGE had been introduced to the public. This set includes of course all forty H.K. Browne "Phiz" plates -- two each in the first 18 parts then four in the final double-number; all are in quite clean condition though browned in Part XVI and with darkened margins in Parts V and XIV. The vignette title plate supplied in the final part has the curious reading "100 " not as is often claimed an issue point but simply a matter of several steels being used to print the etchings simultaneously. As is frequently the case there are several wrappers that are "supplied" from other copies: the Part XV front wrapper is a carefully-amended Part XVII from another set and three rear wrappers IX X and XIX/XX were similarly transferred -- discernible only by the content of the inside advertisements. As for ads CHUZZLEWIT is one of the more difficult "Dickens in parts" to find complete due to the plethora of inserted advertisements. This set lacks a few leaves from the preliminary "Advertiser"s and maybe a dozen other individual insets; it also includes maybe ten insets NOT called for -- reflecting how haphazard this process of inserting ads was. Included are all three Christmas Carol slips and three of the uncommon E. Moses 32-page booklets of verse. Ask for further detail. The front wrapper of the final XIX/XX part is inkstamped "With the Publisher's Compliments" -- which we have not seen before. Condition is very good XIX/XX wrapper darkened some spines carefully restored minor edge-wear. Hatton & Cleaver pp 183-212. Housed in two chemises within a worn morocco-backed slipcase. unknown
1848023006London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. First Edition. Octavo. First issue with the 8 line errata inserted after p. xvi. 624pp. illustrated by H.K. Browne with 40 plates including frontispiece and vignette titlepage Bound from the original parts with with stab marks present. . Domby and Son contain the first published example of the so called dark plate which was created by a machine process that tinted the plate and heightened it with a black and white contrast. And this is the first time Browne etched some of his horizontal plates. Frontispiece and vignette title have some scattered foxing other plates mostly have browning to upper margins with occasional spots of foxing. Text is clean and bright. Bound in full green morocco double ruled gilt spine has changed to an even tone of brown raised bands with compartment fully decorated and lettered in gilt top edge gilt marbled endpapers From the library of E.G. Pool with his bookplate. A very nice copy. Bradbury and Evans unknown
1857148221London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First edition in book form of one of Dickens’ most outstanding novels with the three line errata on page xiv "William" for "Frederick" on page 317 line 27 lacking errata on page 467 and "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pp. 469 470 472 and 473. Octavo bound in full polished calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt turnins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers tissue-guarded frontispiece engraved vignette titles. With 40 illustrations by Hablot Knight Brown “Phiz†including frontispiece and vignette title page. In near fine condition bookplate to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. “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. Bradbury and Evans unknown
184095854London: Chapman and Hall 1840. First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo 3 volumes original blindstamped pictorial cloth gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel marbled endpapers all edges marbled engraved frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. In very good condition with a few chips to the spines. An attractive example. Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly serial that contained both short stories and two novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Some of the short stories act as frame stories to the novels so the ordering of publication is important. 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
1839139459London: London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First edition of the last of Dickens' picaresque novels. Octavo bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels all edges gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers illustrated with by "Phiz" with 40 plates. With a clipped signature of the dedicatee Angela Burdett-Coutts laid in. The dedicatee Angela Burdett-Coutts became one of the wealthiest women in England in 1837 when she inherited her grandfather's fortune of around £1.8 million following the death of her step grandmother Harriot Beauclerk Duchess of St Albans. She spent the majority of her wealth on scholarships endowments and a wide range of philanthropic causes. One of her earliest philanthropic acts was to co-found with Charles Dickens a home for young women who had "turned to a life of immorality" including theft and prostitution. The home was known as Urania Cottage. In near condition. The last of Dickens picaresque novels The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit was originally serialized between 1843 and 1844. Dickens thought it to be his best work and William Boyd proclaimed it "Dickens' funniest novel." Like nearly all of Dickens's novels Martin Chuzzlewit was first published in monthly instalments. Early sales of the monthly parts were lower than those of previous works so Dickens changed the plot to send the title character to the United States. He satirized the country as a place filled with self-promoting hucksters eager to sell land sight unseen. The novels main characters include two of Dickens's great villains Seth Pecksniff and Jonas Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman and Hall unknown
1839Dickens-27Chapman and Hall 1839. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition mixed state. Frontis and 39 plates by Hablot K. Browne Phiz. Nicholas Nickleby was Dickens third novel and was issued in monthly installments March 1838 October 1839 before it was published as this single volume. An instant success it both solidified Dickens voice as a social critic and marked his first of many romances. Description: Half green morocco leather over green cloth by Birdsall of Northampton 5 raised bands title and author in gilt in two compartments TEG marbled endpapers. Xvi 624 pp. frontis & 39 plates 2 pp. ads including an advertisement for New Work by Boz. and another advertisement for A Paperof Tobacco. Octovo size 8 ½ by 5 ½. Pagination: front free endpaper i half-title ii blank Frontispiece iii title page iv copyright v dedication vi blank vii-x preface xi-xiv contents xv-xvi list of plates 1-624 i-ii ads free end paper marble pastedown. Condition: Overall in very good plus condition clean straight text block. Lightly bumped slightly worn corners head bands in place prior owners bookplate affixed to front pastedown booksellers stamp to front blank binders stamp Birdsall Northampton to front blank some minor toning and foxing to plates as is commonly found. Contains the following first issues points: page 18 illustration marked Chapman & Hall flys for flies p. 245 line 10; visiters for visitors p. 272 line 2; incontestible for incontestable p.297 line 22; suprise for surprise p. 586 line 24. This is a mixed state due to lacking the following first issue points: illustrations on pages 25 38 and 44 do NOT say Chapman & Hall; visitor has been corrected to sister on page 123 line 17; and latter has been corrected to letter on page 160 line 6 from the bottom. An attractive copy by a prominent binder that will fit nicely into any collection of Dickens works. Chapman and Hall hardcover
1838ST13648London: Richard Bentley 1838. FIRST EDITION Second State with frame around final plate "The Last Song". 204 x 125 mm. 8 x 4 7/8". With half titles and with 36 pp. of ads at the end of Vol. II. Two volumes. <br/> HANDSOME FOREST GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO GILT BY RIVIERE & SON stamp-signed on front turn-in covers with French fillet borders raised bands spines gilt in delicately tooled compartments with scrolling centerpiece within a lozenge of small tools volute cornerpieces gilt titling turn-ins densely gilt with floral rolls and plain and decorative rules purple endpapers top edges gilt other edges untrimmed. Original purple cloth binding bound in. With 13 plates by George Cruikshank. Eckel pp. 140-42; Kitton pp. 177-83; Gimbel Collection B-64. ◆Spines evenly sunned to tan as usual with green morocco faint offsetting from final plate otherwise A VERY FINE COPY with only the most trivial imperfections internally and in a sparkling binding.<br/> <br/> This is an extraordinarily attractive copy of the biography of Joseph Grimaldi 1779-1837 called by Britannica "the most celebrated of English clowns" and generally considered without equal as a clown of pantomime. There has been much debate about the exact nature of Dickens' role in the writing of this book. Forster said that Dickens wrote only the introductory chapter; others have said that he edited the manuscript with the help of his father; and Bentley has stated in print that Dickens wrote a significant portion of the work. Eckel says "It is plain that the last chapter is in Dickens' style and that other parts of the book are his. Grimaldi laid the foundation for his memoirs but in a rough and diffuse manner. He gave the manuscript to Thomas Egerton Wilks who after some condensing sold the manuscript to Bentley who in turn passed it to Dickens for the purpose of embroidery." According to Kitton copies with the frame around the final plate as here are more valuable than others because of their relative scarcity; the border was added without Dickens' consent and when he expressed his displeasure it was quickly removed. The especially pretty Riviere binding is typical of the firm's first-rate work and use of the best materials. Richard Bentley unknown
183900007117London: Chapman & Hall 1839. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good or better. 8vo. 7 viii-xvi 1 2-624 pp. Later sheep over beveled-edge boards with gold borders on the boards gold borders on the turn-ins spine in six compartments with gold rules and lettering on the spine; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portait of the author engraved by Finden from a painting by Maclise along with 39 additional plates by H.K. Browne 'Phiz'. First edition bound from the parts with the front wrapper of part XVIII bound in at the rear. All is as called for in Smith for the first state including the errors on page 123 and page 160 and the imprint of Chapman & Hall on the first four plates and the frontispiece n.b the imprint on the frontispiece is at the very bottom edge and is only visible upon close inspection. Gimbel A 40; Smith I 5. A very attractive copy of Dickens' third novel. The sheep lightly rubbed at its edges the plates toned. Chapman & Hall hardcover
