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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
184969551London: Bradbury & Evans 1849. First edition in the original 20 parts in 19 8vo pp. 624 xiv 2; engraved frontispiece and title page 38 engraved plates; conforming almost precisely to Hatton and Cleaver with the single exception of missing the folding ad for Lett's Diaries in part VIII and with 6 samples tipped in rather than the more typical 8; first state with 'Lile' for 'Life' in part VIII alternate state of ads in vol. XII without the Kaynes and Almanack ads; all in the original green pictorial wrappers expertly and almost imperceptibly rebacked; part V with owner's signature of "Rev. J. Barlow" on top right edge of wrapper; part X with a circular owner's stamp smack in the middle of upper wrapper many plates evenly toned a few with a touch of foxing the whole clean and sound a near fine set in a blue cloth clamshell box the lid detached. Hatton & Cleaver 235-271; Eckel 75. Bradbury & Evans unknown
122135London The Nonesuch Press 1937-38. . Nonesuch edition number 433 of 877 limited sets; 25 volumes including 'Dickensiana' large 8vo 260 x 180mm; with illustrations printed from the original plates pages are fresh; publisher's vari-coloured cloth morocco labels top edges gilt on the rough others uncut a near-fine set.<br /> With the original steel plate 'Fagin in the condemned Cell' from Oliver Twist with letter of authenticity from the publisher. Text based upon the Charles Dickens Edition the last to be revised by Dickens himself. <br /><br />After the Depression of the early thirties the Nonesuch Press was effectively saved from bankruptcy by the intervention of the American George Macy. 'The Dickens' set was very much his project and it was due to his great energy that it was produced so quickly. It was described at the time by the Daily Telegraph as 'one of the most glorious achievements of publishing in our time. Robert Lynd in the News Chronicle declared it the most pleasant Dickens to read that has ever been published while The Scotsman observed: No more handsome edition of Dickens has yet appeared; nor is it easy to conceive of any which might surpass this one.' - Dreyfus.<br /><br />Dr. Raymond Lister 19192001 miniaturist illustrator and writer born and lived in Cambridge. In 1934 Lister was apprenticed to the family firm eventually becoming a director of George Lister & Sons specialising in architectural metalwork and carrying out restoration around the country. He was made Prime Warden of the Blacksmiths' Company 198990. Dr Lister was a noted art historian specialising in British romantic art a fellow of Wolfson College and a syndic of the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 198190. Among his many books were Samuel Palmer and his Etchings 1969; The Letters of Samuel Palmer 1975; George Richmond 1981; and Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer 1988. His autobiography With My Own Wings appeared in 1994. Lister studied privately with the miniaturist Albert Cousins.<br /> Dreyfus 108. London, The Nonesuch Press, 1937-38. hardcover
1952LZ369142121379FZ<b><i>Fine Second Edition and </i></b><b>was </b><b>leather-bound</b><b> and published / with an Introduction by Norman </b><b>Collins</b><b>.</b><br />For many lovers of the author's works DAVID COPPERFIELD ranks as the finest of his writings. "Of all my books" Dickens declared "I like this the best."<br /><b>With an Introduction by NORMAN COLLINS AND GENERAL EDITOR: G.F.MAINE. </b><b>George Frederick Maine</b> is a Scottish author and editor. British Literature Theology.<br /><b>Condition: Very Good: </b> VERY GOOD. Light rubbing wear to cover spine and page edges.<br /><b><i>Leather Bound</i></b>.<b><br /></b><b>Author Charles Dickens 1812-1870 the greatest English novelist of the Victorian age.</b><br /><b>HISTORY:</b><br />If <i>David Copperfield</i> has come to be Dickens's "darling" it is because it is the most autobiographical of all his novels. Some of the most painful episodes of his life are barely disguised; others appear indirectly termed "oblique revelations" by Paul Davis. However Dickens himself wrote to Forster that the book is not a pure autobiography but "a very complicated weaving of truth and invention". <br /><br />Between 1845 and 1848 Dickens wrote fragments of autobiography excerpts of which he showed to his wife and John Forster. Then in 1855 he made an attempt at revising it. This was a failure because as he tells his first love Maria Beadnell now Mrs Winter when he began dealing with his youthful love for her "I lost courage and burned the rest". Paul Schlicke points out that in fact not all the pages have gone through the flames and that as Dickens began writing <i>David Copperfield</i> some pages were unearthed. Proof of this is found in the eleventh chapter of the novel: "I begin Life on my own Account and don't like it" where the story of Dickens's experience at the Warren Shoe Factory is told almost verbatim with the only change "Mr Micawber" instead of "my father". John Forster also published substantial extracts relating to this period in Dickens's biography including a paragraph devoted to Wellington House College which corresponds with the second stage of childhood recounted in the novel. Thus Dickens looks back on his painful past already evoked by the martyrdom of Little Paul in <i>Dombey and Son</i> though voiced by an omniscient narrator in that earlier novel. Until Forster published his biography of Dickens in 1872–1874 no one knew that Dickens had worked in a factory as a child not even his wife until Dickens wrote it down and gave the papers to Forster in 1847.The first generations of readers did not know this part of David Copperfield's story began like an incident in the author's life. COLLINS LONDON AND GLASGOW hardcover
18375000624London: Chapman and Hall 1837. Some wear to a couple of spines some stitching a little loose; the first part a little aged; generally in fine original condition. Twenty numbers as published in the original nineteen monthly wrappered octavo parts; forty-three inserted engraved plates including frontispiece and vignette title-page; original green printed wrappers designed by Seymour; in a custom-made quarter morocco case. <p><p>A most attractive set of Pickwick in original parts well-preserved by a series of owners and in unsophisticated condition.</p> <p>Collation of a Pickwick in parts is famously laborious. There are often multiple varying states or issues of individual components whether text engravings wrappers or advertisements. Changes were made to engravings as they were reprinted sometimes because the plates wore out errors in the text were corrected and changes to the wrappers were frequent to revise the advertisements that they included.</p> <p>Suffice to say of this set that as with most it is made up from different states. What is important is its impeccable original condition as sold by the Belfast bookseller Hodgson probably to H.W. Calmount who has boldly signed each part presumably a Dublin reader since there is a Calmount Park in Dublin.</p> <p>The exhaustive description by Hatton and Cleaver is recognised as the standard bibliographical analysis: a full collation has been prepared of the present set. In summary: Parts I-XIII are in the later or reprinted wrappers with the others in the primary wrappers. The plates are mostly in their later states where priority is distinguished until the tenth part after which they are a mixture of first and second states. Most texts are in their corrected later state. Four of the seven inserted "address leaves" by the author and publisher are present. Also present are Calmount's copies of "Illustrations to the Pickwick Club. by Samuel Weller" E. Gratten 1837 parts I & II in the original green wrappers. </p> <p>Nowadays as it should be as much attention is paid to the coherence of a set and to be able to show as with this one that there has been no sophistication attempted. The set is as issued as purchased serially by its first owner and in original condition.</p> <p></p> <p>In the past collectors have been anxious to acquire so-called "prime" sets composed only of first states or issues of the various components. This was especially the case in the 1930s when enormous premiums were paid. Since only a few hundred copies of the first few parts were published in 1836 and those parts were later reprinted to meet demand as the novel's popularity snowballed after part IV this is an almost hopeless ambition - at any rate to find a set issued in that form rather than later merged or made up. Over the years collectors have exchanged parts between sets often improving individual plates and exchanging earlier states of wrappers for older ones thus terribly muddying the bibliographical waters.</p> </p> . Provenance: Hodgson Belfast bookseller small label on most front wrappers; each front wrapper inscribed at head "H.W. Calmount"; Arnold Greenhill pictorial bookplate; H. Bradley Martin emblematic bookplate sale Sotheby's New York 30 April 1990 lot 2766 $6000; private collection Australia. Chapman and Hall unknown
113319London Chapman & Hall 1861. . Second second and third 'editions' issues; 3 vols 8vo 195 x 130 mm; vol. I: title & dedication leaves 344 pp. vol. II: title & dedication leaves 351 pp. vol. III: title and dedication leaves 344 pp. without publisher's catalogue at rear of vol. III but Smith states that 'some copies of the first five issues did not contain catalogues'; contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards morocco labels light wear to boards neat repairs to upper hinges a very good clean set.<br /> An attractive set of Great Expectations the most popular of Dickens' novels in a contemporary binding.<br /><br />Although the title-pages states 'Second and third editions' in fact the first five editions are really only different impressions of the same edition. Apart from the title-pages the only differences are in the text where the type in the earliest impressions shows fewer signs of wear and damage. The title-pages were altered to encourage sales.<br /> See Smith I 14. London, Chapman & Hall, 1861. hardcover
1861189746London: Chapman and Hall 1861. In the well-preserved original cloth The fourth impression published two months after the first. The novel's instant popularity meant that five impressions were published in quick succession; copies of any impression in the original cloth are desirable. These first five impressions were printed sequentially in short order. To imply and encourage rapid sales Dickens's publishers advertised each fresh impression as a new edition. The present fourth impression stated on the title pages as the "fourth edition" had the smallest print run 500 copies and was published in September 1861 following the first in July. The second edition followed in 1862 when Chapman and Hall reset the text for their "library edition". 3 vols octavo. Publisher's 32-page catalogue at end of vol. III dated August 1861. Original purple wavy-grain cloth spines lettered in gilt floral decorations to covers in blind pale yellow coated endpapers. Cloth a little foxed but smart minor nicks and rubbing to extremities occasional mark or spot to margins. A bright copy in the original cloth untouched by restoration or repair rare in this condition. Smith I 14 but superseded by Cardwell/Clarendon; Sadleir 688; Wolff 1799. hardcover
1843004998London: Chapman and Hall 1843 1843. FIRST EDITION SECOND ISSUE. 1 vol. 6-9/16" x 4-5/16" 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 clean and bright throughout neat contemporary gift inscription to half-title dated 1883. Bound in fine full red morocco ribbed gilt decorated spine covers ruled and paneled in gilt front cover with gilt portrait of Dickens rear cover with Dickens signature in gilt gilt dentelles marbled pastedowns and endpapers all edges gilt original cloth covers and 1 yellow endpaper bound in by Bayntun In AS NEW condition. Regarded as Dicken's most widely read novel and considered to be "the greatest Christmas book ever written in any language" Eckel p. 116 selling more than 6000 copies in the few days leading up to Christmas. The work was extravagantly costly as Dickens for the first time and incidentally his last used color in the title-page and etchings as he wanted to make the book a beautiful gift and to be a celebration of the Christmas spirit. After the initial success Dickens continued the series throughout the 1840's maintaining "the Carol" philosophy to "strike a sledgehammer blow" for the poor uneducated and repressed. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843 hardcover
1838375243London: Richard Bentley 1838. First edition first issue earliest title page with "Boz" with Fireside plate opposite p. 313 in vol. III. 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank. Ad leaf present at beginning of vol. III. 3 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth decoratively blind stamped on boards; stamped in gilt on spine; some minor bumping and edge wear; light water stain to rear board of vol. I and front of vol. II; small bookplate on first pastedown endpaper of each volume with ownership signature on title page of vol. I; very light foxing to interior pages with additional toning to plate pages; held in brown cloth box. Cruikshank George. First edition first issue earliest title page with "Boz" with Fireside plate opposite p. 313 in vol. III. 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank. Ad leaf present at beginning of vol. III. 3 vols. 8vo. Dickens' second novel was intially published in monthly installments in Bentley's Miscellany from February 1837 to April 1839 with each issue featuring an illustrative etching by George Cruikshank. Richard Bentley the owner of the Miscellany printed the three-volume first book edition six months before the series' end but instead of using Dickens' name employed the author's pseudonym "Boz" which is present here on both the book spines and title pages.<br /> <br /> Half-titles in vols. I and II as issued; terminal ads in vol. I; initial advertisement leaf in Vol. III. First state of volume III with "pilaster" instead of "pier" or "pedestal" on page 164 and the Fireplace plate opposite p. 313 in vol. III. Smith pp. 30-37 Richard Bentley unknown
06271London: Bradbury and Evans 1849. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world."<br /> Charles Dicken's David Copperfield in the Original Parts<br /> <br /> DICKENS Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. With illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans 1850 i.e. May 1849-November 1850. <br /> <br /> First edition in the original monthly parts twenty numbers bound in nineteen; first issue following all points in Hatton & Cleaver. <br /> <br /> Octavo. 8 7/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 226 x 142 mm. i-vii viii ix x-xii xiii xiv xv-xvi 1 2-624. Forty inserted plates including frontispiece and vignette title. Complete with all called for advertisements with the exception of the rare Lett's Diary fold-out advertisement and the eight sample pages all other slips present; Part VIII "Advertiser" without the erratum "Lile" for "Life." <br /> <br /> Publisher's light blue printed pictorial wrappers. Expert and almost invisible restoration to spines of wrappers. Text and plates remarkably clean some of the text unopened. All plates with tissue guards. Subscribers name on front wrappers of parts II & VIII small booksellers label at foot of front wrapper of part IX. Part VII with small professional repair to lower corner of front wrapper; part VII rear wrapper re-margined and first leaf of advertiser with small loss at lower gutter. Parts XIX/XX with professional repair to corner of rear wrappers. A near fine and complete set albeit without the Lett's Diary fold-out advertisement and eight pages of samples rarely seen in this condition. Chemised in a later quarter purple morocco over decorative paper boards slipcase spine with four raised bands lettered in gilt in compartments. <br /> <br /> A remarkably clean set of one of Charles Dickens's best loved novels.<br /> <br /> David Copperfield is one of the rarer Dickens titles in the original first issue parts.<br /> <br /> "As is well known this novel being largely biographic was the first one written in the first person. The original sales did not exceed 25000 copies its later popularity more than equalized the failure as an early money-maker. With many lovers of the author's works "David Copperfield" ranks as the finest of his writings. With a book which gave to the world such characters as Betsy Trotwood Micawber the Pegottys and Mr. Dick to mention only a few it would have been strange if it had been otherwise. The rather meagre profits again brought to the author the necessity for a personally-owned and conducted periodical and this subsequently formulated itself into his Household Words. Eckel pp. 77-78.<br /> <br /> References: Hatton & Cleaver pp. 253-272; Podeschi Gimbel Collection A121; Sadleir Excursions in Victorian Bibliography p. 261. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1849 unknown
1849719871849. DICKENS Charles. The Personal History of David Copperfield. Original pictorial wrappers housed in custom 3/4 green morocco solander case with inner cloth chemise. London: Bradbury & Evans 1849-1850. 20 Parts in 19. First edition in the original monthly parts with most of the advertisements called for by Hatton and Cleaver pp.253-72. Part Two has rear advertisements called for Part Three; Part Five has the inside rear wrapper called for Part Eleven; Part Eight has the first issue point of "Lile" for "Life on p.3 of the "Copperfield Advertiser"; lacks advertising slip on green paper and rear advertisement. Part Nine has advertisement on rear inside wrapper called for Part Eight. Part Twelve duplicates rear leaf advertising "Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Charles Dickens" "Exhibition of Industry of All Nations" lacks final two leaves. Part Sixteen lacks advertising slip for Punch's Holidays. Part Eighteen lacks rear advertisements. Final Part lacks final leaf of rear advertisements for Waterlow. Some minor chipping to spines some spines expertly repaired; former owners' names in several parts a small amount of faint foxing else a very good or better set with all plates. unknown
183668995London: John Macrone 1836. CRUIKSHANK George. . Sketches by "Boz". Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. London: John Macrone 1836.<br> <br> Full Description:<br> <br> DICKENS Charles. CRUIKSHANK George illustrator. Sketches by "Boz". Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. In Two Volumes. Volume I II. London: John Macrone 1836.<br> <br> First edition first printing i.e. by Whiting. Two twelvemo volumes 7 15/16 x 4 7/8 inches; 201 x 125 mm. viii 348; iv 342 pp. With the date on the preface reading 'February 1836' and with almost every internal flaw called for by Smith in both volumes except five in volume I 1 is not spaced apart in 100; "o" is not missing in "thought" on 107; "S" not missing on page 143 only some copies; 'r' not missing on pg 258; and plate has imprint on pg 329 and two in volume II 9pg 287 with hyphen; page 305 spacing is okay in some copies only. No half-titles called for. Some internal pages bear no pagination as called for by Smith. Sixteen inserted engraved plates by George Cruikshank eight in each volume. These two volumes have the frontispieces bound in at their respective chapters Vol I is bound facing page 47 and Vol II is bound facing page 24.<br> <br> The first printing of the first edition carries the imprint of Whiting whereas the second and third printings carry those of Hazard and Vizetelly respectively.<br> <br> Original dark green leaf-patterned cloth. Spines lettered and stamped in gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. Some very minor shelfwear to head and tail of spines. Bindings slightly skewed. Pages lightly toned. A few pages roughly opened but never affecting text. Housed together in a half green morocco clamshell. A near fine copy of this rare first edition of Dickens' first book.<br> <br> "Those to whom the Sketches revealed a new writer saw in them many merits which to us are obscured: they broke entirely new ground were written in a new style and despite their frouzy topics seemed to bring a refreshing breath of reality into the literary atmosphere. Nowadays the best parts of the book seem to be those which are purely descriptive. Remembering how rare a thing is the ability to depict really to depict in words and especially to make interesting a description of the everyday the commonplace we gladly recognize in Boz's handwork the first proofs of Dickens' extraordinary power" Gissing The Immortal Dickens.<br> <br> Cohn 232. Gimbel A1. Smith Dickens I 1.<br> <br> HBS 68995.<br> <br> $12500. John Macrone unknown
18467710London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. First edition. Very Good . Vignette title in the fourth state Smith II.8. Some edgewear to binding and covers marked lacking advertisement leaf but with half-title present early blue ink gift inscription 'JMH from HH' to the front free endpaper a little spotting small portion of loss to foot of title inner margin. Bound in a publisher's red full morocco gilt with the original gilt designs to both covers within a foliate border all edges gilt yellow endpapers gilt-lettered and decorated spine. A Very Good copy. <br /> <br /> An exceedingly rare survival by all appearances an unrecorded publisher's presentation morocco binding. We have been unable to trace another example at auction or in commerce. While there are extant copies of most of Dickens' published works in presentation or deluxe bindings we cannot trace another example of a Christmas book in this form. The original cover illustrations of the trade edition have been produced here in the same form. <br /> <br /> The Battle of Life was the fourth of the Christmas books and one of the lesser known works from the series. It centers on two sisters Grace and Marion who must contend with shared romantic attachments. After Marion disappears with a presumed libertine Michael Warden the family struggles to make sense of her sudden departure. But in standard Dickensian fashion the plot twists get resolved and happiness prevails for everyone. <br /> <br /> The Christmas books are outliers in terms of their publication history when compared to other Dickens works as they were first published in this form rather than in serial parts. It was first published on December 19 1846 and priced at 5 shillings however it is certain the present copy would have cost more due to the deluxe binding. The work is illustrated throughout with four contributions by Daniel Maclise three by Richard Doyle three by Clarkson Stanfield and three by John Leech. Very Good . Bradbury & Evans unknown
1850375324London: Bradbury and Evans 1850. First Edition in the Original Monthly Parts. 40 etched plates by H.K. Browne "Phiz". 19 vols. Demy 8vo. In the original blue printed wrappers all as called for by Hatton & Cleaver and with all of the inserted ads and slips called for by Hatton and Cleaver including the very elusive folded sheet for "Lett's Diaries" and its specimen leaves 6 in this case in part 8 "more often than not a missing quantity" - H & C. Some of the spines with minor reinforcement. In general both text and plates are quite clean; and overall this is an exceptionally complete copy in a remarkable state of preservation. In half-morocco clamshell box. Browne H.K. First Edition in the Original Monthly Parts. 40 etched plates by H.K. Browne "Phiz". 19 vols. Demy 8vo. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 253 ff Bradbury and Evans unknown
09945London April 1836 - November 1837: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. First edition in the original monthly parts 20 parts in 19 with 43 illustrations by Seymour Phiz and Buss. A near prime copy lacking just 3 of the 11 points required in Eckel's bibliography "The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens." The three points lacking are #2 3 and 8; all 11 of Eckel's points are enumerated below. Part numbers which are complete and in accord with Hatton & Cleaver are XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII and XIX/XX - Part XI lacks only 2 leaves of the Advertiser and part XII lacks only the Mechi catalogue. Additionally let us name the parts and the ads they are lacking: Part I lacks only the Chapman & Hall ad; part II lacks only the author's Address; part III lacks the Chapman & Hall ad The Toilet ad and the Address; part IV lacks only the Advertiser; part VII lacks the Advertiser and Phrenology ad; part VIII lacks the Advertiser and Geo. Henekey ad; part IX lacks the Advertiser and The Parterre ad and Geo. Henekey ad; part X lacks one leaf of the Advertiser and both rear ads; part XI lacks two leaves of the Advertiser; part XII lacks only the Mechi ad; part XIII lacks the Pigot's Colored Views ad Ward's Miscellany ad and the Argyll Rooms ad; the remaining parts XIV through XIX/XX are COMPLETE and in accord with Hatton & Cleaver. THE WRAPPERS; all front wrappers are dated MDCCCXXXVI 1836. Wrappers of part I early meaning not 1st or 2nd issue; part II early; part III early part IV early with inside of wraps blank; part V front wrap is 1st issue rear wrap is 2nd issue with inside blank see Hatton & Cleaver pp. 25-28; part VI front wrap is 2nd issue rear wrap is early 1838; part VII front wrap is 2nd issue rear wrap is 2nd issue Oct. 1836 same month as 1st issue; part VIII Front wrap is 1st issue rear wrap is 2nd issue; part IX early; part X correct; part XI correct; part XII early; part XIII correct; XIV correct; part XV correct; part XVI correct; part XVII correct; part XVIII correct; part XIX/XX correct. THE PLATES; all plates are before letters i.e. without captions. As called for in Hatton and Cleaver plates in parts I through XI have page numbers; plates in parts XII through XIX/XX have no page numbers. Relative to the plates in part XII Hatton & Cleaver agree with Miller & Strange see Miller & Strange "A Centenary Bibliography of the Pickwick Papers page 45 "Both plates in part XII appear unpaged as well as paged the former prior to the latter." Therefore the plates in part XII are first plate second state. Notably this exceptional set has the first issue of the vignette title with "Tony Veller" on sign as well as the suppressed Buss plates in part III. The plates in part I are as follows: 1 first state of the second Seymour plate; 2 second state of the second Seymour plate; 3 first state of the second Seymour plate; 4 first state of the second Seymour plate. The plates in part II: 5 first plate first state; 6 first plate first state; 7 first plate first state. The plates in part IV: 10 second state of first plate; 11 second state of first plate. The plates in part V are first state part VI are second state part VII are first state part VIII are first state part IX are first state part X are first plate part XI are first plate part XII are first plate second state part XIII are first plate part XIV are first plate part XV plate 32 is first plate and plate 33 is second plate; part XVI is first plates; part XVII plate 36 is first plate plate 37 is second plate; part XVIII has first plates and in part XIX/XX all are first plates. In part X the obverse of plate 23 is ANNOTATED by Thomas Hatton thus: "only state of this plate: another plate exists." Plates are very good to fine with the exception of those in part IX which are browned at edges not affecting illustrations. THE TEXT is first issue in parts VII XIII and XIV; the text is mixed in parts VI and VIII; parts XV through XIX/XX have no textual points of priority. Previous owner names appear on front wraps of parts VI XII XVIII and XIX/XX. Now we will list the 11 points required by Eckel for a prime Pickwick: #1. All front covers must bear the date 1836. #2. Parts I and II front wrappers must carry the words "With four illustrations by Seymour. #3. Part III front wrapper must carry the words "With Illustrations by R. W. Buss." #4. Part I must have four plates by Seymour signed and not re-etched by Phiz. #5. Part II must have 3 plates by Seymour signed. #6. Part III must have the two plates signed "Drawn and etched by R. W. Buss" and the page numbers. #7. Part IV has the two plates indistinctly signed "Nemo" and not "Phiz." #8. Parts II III and XV must have the Addresses by the Author. #9. Parts XVII XVIII and XIX/XX must have the Addresses by the publishers. #10. Parts I to XII must have no captions only page numbers where they are inserted; parts XIII to XIX/XX must have neither captions nor page numbers. #11. On the vignette title page the name "Weller" on the signboard above the door must appear with a "V" and the signature "Phiz fecit" must surround the tablet at the bottom of the frontispiece. The present Pickwick is lacking only numbers 2 3 and 8 above. Light soiling on some wrappers; small corner repair to rear wrap of part X. Internally clean and bright. Housed in a custom green quarter leather slipcase with chemise. Armorial bookplate is affixed to the chemise. This exceptional set comes with a pedigree - it is from the legendary Hatton & Cleaver collection. Provenance: The Hatton & Cleaver collection The Heritage Bookshop Charles Parkhurst Rare Books Inc. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 1-88. Chapman & Hall unknown
1843005108London: 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. Bound in the original straight grained rose colored cloth gilt tile and wreath to spine and front cover front cover has a perfect 'D' in 'Dickens' yellow pastedowns and endpapers all edges gilt. Back corners still square head of spine expertly renewed otherwise entirely unsophisticated foot of spine fine inner and outer hinges fine internally clean and bright small bookplate to front endpaper neat contemporary gift inscription to half-title dated "Jan. 2 1844" overall a VERY GOOD copy. Regarded as Dicken's most widely read novel and considered to be "the greatest Christmas book ever written in any language" Eckel p. 116 selling more than 6000 copies in the few days leading up to Christmas. The work was extravagantly costly as Dickens for the first time and incidentally his last used color in the title-page and etchings as he wanted to make the book a beautiful gift and to be a celebration of the Christmas spirit. After the initial success Dickens continued the series throughout the 1840's maintaining "the Carol" philosophy to "strike a sledgehammer blow" for the poor uneducated and repressed. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843 hardcover
1859149368London: Chapman and Hall 1859. First edition mixed issue of one of Dickens' most enduring works. Octavo bound in three quarters modern half calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands all edges marbled marbled endpapers illustrated with sixteen plates after H.K. Browne including the frontispiece and title vignette. A mixed issue copy with first state "b" signature to the list of plates at the rear and "affectionately" misspelled on page 134 line 12 and second state correctly numbered page 213. In near fine condition with light toning. Accompanied by an autograph note written by Charles Dickens in the third person in blue ink and addressed to Messrs. Head & Co. The letter reads in full "Mr Charles Dickens sends his compliments to Messrs. Head and Co. and begs to signify his ready compliance with their request concerning the gardener. He would be happy to facilitate any other preparations on Sir Charles Rowley's return. 3 Hanover Terrace Seventh June 1861." Together with the original envelope with Dicken's personal monogram to the verso and addressed by him on the recto "Messrs. Head and Co. Upper Baker Street." In very good condition with mailing creases and remnants of mounting to verso corners with the envelope in good condition. The piece measures 5 inches by 8 inches. The most famous and possibly the most popular of Dickens's novels A Tale of Two Cities shows a master of dramatic narrative extracting gold from the ore of history. If the bloody tableau of the French Revolution were not in itself sufficient for a dozen novels Dickens added to it a professional resurrectionist an authentic ogress and an antihero as convincingly flawed as any in modern literature. “Dickens had always admired Carlyle’s History of the French Revolution and asked him to recommend suitable books from which he could research the period; in reply Carlyle sent him a ‘cartload’ of volumes… So great was Dickens’ enthusiasm for the story that it had indeed ‘taken in possession’ of him… The force of the novel springs from its exploration of darkness and death but its beauty derives from Dickens’ real sense of transcendence from his ability to see the sweep of destiny†Ackroyd 858. The last of Dickens’ books to be illustrated by H.K. Browne “Phiz†with 16 engraved plates by him. “Browne for 23 years responsible for all the etchings which had so successfully embellished these Dickens’ books produced his last drawings for the present work… Bradbury and Evans the printers of all and publishers of five of Dickens’ works as issued in monthly parts had ceased to act in this dual capacity after completion of Little Dorrit… resulting in the return of Chapman and Hall as publishers of this and all succeeding works†Hatton & Cleaver 333. Chapman and Hall hardcover
1873143537London: Chapman and Hall and Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. 1873-1876. Finely bound set of the works of Charles Dickens uniformly bound with John Forster's definitive biography of Dickens. Octavo 30 volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt illustrated with numerous etched plates after H.K. Browne George Cattermole George Cruikshank Marcus Stone and others including frontispieces and engraved vignette titles. In near fine condition. A very nice set. 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. Chapman and Hall and Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co. hardcover
18871297661887. DICKENS Charles. Works. London: Chapman and Hall circa 1887. Thirty volumes. Octavo contemporary three-quarter dark green morocco raised bands elaborately gilt-decorated spines marbled boards and endpapers top edges gilt uncut. $11000.Illustrated Library Edition with over 400 black-and-white plates after the original illustrations handsomely bound by Blunson.""His imaginative freshness his deep and sincere tenderness and pity his whole-souled humor that is seldom sharpened into wit his superabundance of creative energy have built a deathless niche in the temple of fame for Charles Dickens"" Kunitz & Haycraft 184. This edition includes all of Dickens' major works including The Pickwick Papers Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities Oliver Twist David Copperfield and the Christmas books chief among them A Christmas Carol. Generously illustrated with over 400 black-and-white plates after the original illustrations by ""Phiz"" H.K. Browne Cruikshank and others. Laid into Volume IIPickwickis an illustration by R.W. Buss for a cricket match described in Chapter VII. Bookplates.Plates and text generally clean with light foxing to text block edges occasional scattered foxing to frontispieces and title pages heavier in Sketches by Boz. Very handsomely bound. hardcover
1859031178London: Chapman & Hall 1859. Book. Illus. by H. K. Browne. Near Fine. Full Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Full Hunter Green morocco leather gilt. Gilt ruled 6 times on front and rear panels with olive branch decorations. Spine with 6 compartments and elaborate gilt. Gilt dentelles with 8 gilt ruled panels over patterned endpapers. Followed by marbled pages front and rear. All edges gilt. All by MARIUS MICHEL and so signed. Housed in cloth slipcase consisting of the original red cloth binding. Conforms to Major 1st ed 1st printing points of page 213 printed 113 and letter b at bottom of plate list. Some wear along joints. Darkening of leather on spine. Mild foxing to front blanks but text remarkably clean. A beautiful copy of one of the Dickens favourties. Chapman & Hall Hardcover
183811647London: Richard Bentley 1838. First edition first issue. With the 24 engraved plates by George Cruikshank all a little spotted as usual. 3 volumes. Large 12mo and 8vo. with the terminal 2 leaves of advertisements in Vol. I and the initial advertisement leaf in vol. 3 half-titles present in vols 1 and 2 not called for in volume 3 original reddish-brown publisher’s cloth vol. 1 skilfully recased variant state binding with “London/ Bentley†at the foot of the spines according to Smith not a point of any significance spines lettered in gilt arabesque blind-stamps to sides. Spines faded slight chipping to spine ends a little marking to sides but generally a very good copy and unusually in the original cloth.The first issue with the “Boz†title-pages and the final “fireside†plate. After publication Dickens objected to both and the second edition has his name author on the titles and the final plate was substituted by the “Church†plate. The printing was shared between two or maybe three printers hence volumes 1 & 3 are in large 12mo format and volume 2 in 8vo.<br>Oliver Twist first appeared in Bentley’s “Miscellany†from February 1837 to April 1839.<br>In book form it constitutes Dickens’s first novel to be published in the standard three-decker format of the day.<br>Provenance: Vols 2 & 3 have the understated “Sudeley†provenance at the head of the titles.Smith 4; Eckel pp. 51-56 First edition first issue with “Boz†titles and the fireside plate; in original cloth Richard Bentley hardcover
1937190014London: The Nonesuch Press 1937-39. Including an original steel plate illustrating Dickens's first published story First Nonesuch edition number 51 of 877 sets with an original plate. This example includes the steel plate that was used in the first edition of Sketches by Boz 1836 to illustrate "Mr Minns and his Cousin". The story represents a revised version of Dickens's first published work of fiction "A Dinner at Poplar Walk" The Monthly Magazine December 1833. The limitation matches the 877 original plates that were used for the first editions and kept in the archives of Dickens's publisher Chapman and Hall. Most of the plates were on steel though they also included woodblocks. This plate accompanied by a press pull as issued illustrates a startled Mr Minns "casting a diabolical look at the dog" of his cousin as the canine climbs up the dinner table. The Nonesuch Dickens was the press's largest project and greatest triumph. The publisher boldly claimed that "it will never be possible for a more complete and perfect edition to be put upon the market". Together 25 vols large octavo including the plate volume containing an original steel plate after Cruikshank and the Nonesuch Dickensiana in glassine and orange card box without lid. Illustrated throughout after the original plates. Original buckram in various colours black spine labels top edges gilt on the rough fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Letters I with indent to rear cover. Spines variously sunned wear to a couple of spine labels not affecting lettering cloth occasionally rubbed and with a few marks contents clean. A very good set. Dreyfus 108. hardcover
100106London Chapman & Hall 1843 1st.ed. 1st.issue. Small 8vo. 16.5 cm x 10.5 cm. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Bound in beautiful full RED morocco with with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels To the upper board the title and a small gilt motif in gilt. Gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Bound in to the rear is the original cloth upper cover. Externally in good order with crisp stamping and the gilt bright. The binding strong and handsome with hinges firm and gutters intact. Some very light rubbing on hinges. Ends of spines a little darkened looks to have been slightly touched up at some point. Internally a few light spots to a handful of pages and the illustrations as good as we have seen. It remains largely bright throughout. Overall still a very good copy of an extremely scarce and popular book. 167p.p plus the publisher’s double-sided advertisement leaf. Four hand coloured plates and three black and white line steel engravings by Leech. Attractive checkered red and black endpapers. VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION. For the first time and also the last time Dickens decided to print not only the title-page but also the etchings in colour. "A Christmas Carol" is one of the "greatest Christmas books ever written". It was issued just before Christmas 1843 in an edition of 6000 copies. Up to Jan.3.1844 two of the three thousand copies of the second and third editions were sold. Of the first edition there are 3 different issues: Red & blue title-page dated 1843 / red & green title-page dated 1844/ and a few copies are said to exist with the red & blue title-page and the later date. The real first edition 1st.issue is the red and blue title-page printing of "Stave I" instead of Stave One. Written by Dickens during a period when the British were exploring and re-evaluating past Christmas traditions including carols and newer customs such as Christmas cards and Christmas trees. He was influenced by the experiences of his own youth and by the Christmas stories of other authors including Washington Irving. The novella captured the mid-Victorian revival of the Christmas holiday. Dickens acknowledged the influence of the modern Western observance of Christmas and in turn his novella would go on to later influence several aspects of Christmas traditions including family gatherings seasonal food and drink dancing games and a festive generosity of spirit. London Chapman & Hall 1843 (1st.ed., 1st.issue) hardcover
1837149754London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition in book form presented in an attractive Cosway-style binding with miniature portrait of the author First edition in an extremely attractive Cosway-style binding featuring an oval miniature portrait of Dickens aged 27 after the painting by Daniel Maclise. All plates are present and in their early states with page numbers as called for but with no titles or imprints. Two plates by R. W. Buss were suppressed and the replacement illustrations by H. K. Browne "Phiz" are present in this copy. The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens's first novel transformed the obscure journalist into England's most famous writer within months. The first monthly instalment was issued in an edition of 1000 copies in April 1836. The work became a publishing sensation after the introduction of Sam Weller in chapter 10 the fourth instalment issued in July 1836 after which the publishers reprinted the earlier instalments so that readers could catch up. By the time the book publication was issued in November 1837 many textual corrections had been made. Booksellers often list numerous and confusing text points that might conceivably apply to a perfect set of Pickwick Papers as originally issued in parts but all these points could never be found together in the issues in book form. The serial was originally intended to be primarily a vehicle for the cartoons of Robert Seymour until he died by suicide after the first number was published. Robert William Buss then took over but he was inexperienced in steel engraving and had to be replaced. The final choice Hablot Knight Browne "Phiz" was to be Dickens's chosen collaborator for the next two decades. Octavo 210 x 122 mm. Etched vignette title page frontispiece 41 plates by Robert Seymour and H. K. Browne. Early 20th-century green full morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for Charles J. Sawyer spine elaborately gilt in six compartments covers with gilt borders front cover with circular red morocco onlay with Dickens's monogram in gilt gauffered edges gilt red morocco doublures with elaborate gilt dentelles front doublure in Cosway-style with central oval miniature portrait of Dickens after Maclise under glass and framed in brass watered silk endpapers gilt-stamped facsimile of Dickens's signature to front free endpaper. Housed in a custom green cloth folding box. A remarkably clean and fine example with some light foxing to frontispiece and etched vignette title page as usual some cockling to paper lining of free endpapers and bound without half-title. Smith I.3. hardcover
72180London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. no date 1897-1908. Complete Works FINELY BOUND COMPLETE WORKS the Gadshill Edition. Complete in 38 volumes. Octavo 20 x 15cm. With original illustrations by Cruikshank and numerous additional ones by Charles Green Harry Furniss etc. Very fine contemporary or slightly later red half morocco for BUMPUS with raised bands gilt titles and ruling to spines and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt with marbled endpapers. Some toning and spotting to edges otherwise clean bright copies in an exquisite fresh binding. Near fine. The first complete and fully edited edition of Dicken's works including notes and an introduction to every book actually provided by B.W. Matz rather than Andrew Lang as stated on the title page. SPENCER Andrew 'Charles Dickens: A Guide to the Collected Editions' Chesney Wold 2021 pp.36-39. London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., no date [1897-1908] unknown
