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1840325London: Chapman & Hall 1840. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. George Cattermole & Hablot Browne. THIS THREE VOLUME SET IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN 3/4 LEATHER WITH MARBLED BOARDS SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINES WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES PAGES ARE WITHOUT MARKS SOME LIGHT SPORADIC FOXING / SOILING TO PAGES. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CATTERMOLE AND HABLOT BROWNE BOOKS MEASURE 10" TALL. FIRST EDITION 181 YEARS OLD. AN ATTRACTIVE SET IN GREAT CONDITION. Chapman & Hall hardcover
18536707London: Bradbury & Evans 1853. First edition in book form. Very Good. Octavo xvi 624 pages frontispiece engraved title and 39 engraved plates by H. K. Browne a.k.a. Phiz. In original publisher's maroon cloth sunned to tan on spine. Scattered foxing to plates as usual but text is clean. Charles Dickens Centenary Testimonial stamp dated 1912 on front free endpaper. Ownership autograph on front free endpaper. Few stains and cello-tape ghosts on pastedowns. <br /><br /> Bradbury & Evans hardcover
1848131468London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. First edition in book form of Dickens’ novel of “Pride†with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne “Phizâ€. Octavo bound in original cloth. With 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and engraved title by H. K. Browne. In very good condition. A nice example. Dombey and Son "was well received by its readers and is considered to be the first novel that reflects Dickens's artistic maturity… Dickens told his first biographer 'It was to do with Pride what its predecessor Martin Chuzzlewit has done with Selfishness" Schlicke 280. The work "has a sense of the numinous is more profoundly touched by the sense of last things than any of Dickens' previous novels. It is larger in conception so that human life is seen in terms of its beginning and its end so that grief and forgiveness become more powerful forces within it… Dickens is aware of its status as art and provides here a simulacrum of human life touched by majesty and purpose" Ackroyd 526. The original serials contain the first of Browne's "dark plates" "On the dark Road" in part 18 created by the engraver's lining machine and roulettes that tint the etched plate creating heightened contrast Johannsen Phiz 309. Bradbury and Evans hardcover
183914351London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First Edition Mixed Issue. Full leather. Near fine. First edition mixed state of Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens finely bound by Bayntun. Octavo xvi 624pp 1. Full green morocco portrait and signature stamped in gilt to covers. Five gilt-embellished raised bands title in gilt on spine. Ornate gilt trim turn-ins and gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Bayntun in Bath England. Solid text block with a few spots of toning throughout. Lacking half title. Includes many first state points as named in Smith notably "latter" for "letter" on page 160. Lacking the "s" on "yesterday" on page 198 and the "Chapman and Hall" imprint on frontis and first four plates. Complete with frontis and 39 full-page plates. Smith I 5 Gimbel A41 A striking example. Chapman and Hall unknown
1837140607London: Chapman and Hall 1837. full crushed black morocco with gilt borders and ornamentation on boards gilt decorations on spine with five raised bands leather turn-ins with gilt marbled endsheets all edges gilt. 8vo. full crushed black morocco with gilt borders and ornamentation on boards gilt decorations on spine with five raised bands leather turn-ins with gilt marbled endsheets all edges gilt. xvi 609 pages with numerous plates bound-in. First edition in book mixed issue points but containing the name "Tony Veller" on the signboard on the engraved title page Smith I.3. Private bookplate of Frederic William Bois on front pastedown. Preliminary pages lightly foxed with some of the preliminary plates showing moderate foxing. This copy is an extra-illustrated copy with 86 total plates bound-in by Phiz i.e. Hablot Knight Brown Robert Seymour as well as one of the two supressed Robert William Buss plates. A beautiful copy.<BR> <br /> <BR> <br /> 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. <BR> <br /> <BR> <br /> Very uncommon to find with a plate by Robert William Buss. Chapman and Hall unknown
06155London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1890. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club<br /> In a Fine Binding by The Guild of Women Binders<br /> <br /> DICKENS Charles. GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS The. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With illustrations. London: Chapman & Hall n.d. ca. 1890. <br /> <br /> Two octavo volumes 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 216 x 140 mm. i-vii viii-xvi 2 list of illustrations verso blank 1-471 1 imprint pp.; i-v vi-viii 2 list of illustrations verso blank 1-491 1blank pp. Forty-three engraved plates by George Cruikshank including two frontispieces and engraved title.<br /> <br /> Bound by The Guild of Women Binders stamp signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full red Morocco covers bordered in gilt with four gilt floral decorations. Spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt in the Art Nouveau style with hearts and flowers lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Armorial bookplate of Adam Rivers Steele on front paste-down. Half-title to volume one slightly creased. A fine copy.<br /> <br /> The Guild of Women-Binders was an organization founded to promote and distribute the work of women bookbinders at the turn of the 20th century. It was founded by Frank Francis Karslake in 1898 and disbanded in 1904. It helped sell bindings produced by women binders already practicing and instituted training programs to teach other women. Frank Karslake was a London bookseller and a founder and financial backer of the Hampstead Bindery. At the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibition at Earl's Court he encountered several bindings by women including Annie S. Macdonald on display and his interest was piqued. Soon after he invited several women binders to exhibit their work in his London shop; this "Exhibition of Artistic Bookbinding by Women" which ran from November 1897 to February 1898 garnered a substantial amount of interest from the public and convinced him that promoting women's bookbindings could be a profitable venture if perhaps partially for the novelty. Whatever his motivations Karslake soon began acting as an agent to women binders already practicing such as Annie MacDonald and Edith and Florence de Rheims.<br /> <br /> The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club also known as The Pickwick Papers is the first novel by English author Charles Dickens. His previous work was Sketches by Boz published in 1836 and his publisher Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour and to connect them into a novel. The book became a publishing phenomenon with bootleg copies theatrical performances Sam Weller joke books and other merchandise. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1890 unknown
1839137984London: London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First edition of this classic work. Octavo bound in full calf by Root and Son gilt titles and tooling to the spine raised bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels all edges gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers illustrated with 40 plates. In near fine condition remnant of a bookplate to the front free endpaper. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is considered the last of Dickens picaresque novels. It was originally serialised in 1843 and 1844. Dickens thought it to be his best work. "Dickens' funniest novel" William Boyd. London: Chapman and Hall hardcover
187036283Boston: Fields Osgood & Co 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. The complete first appearance of The Mystery of Edwin Drood as serialized in Every Saturday April 9 1870 to September 17 1870. 880pp. Brown half calf spine lettered in gold. Also includes the obituary of Charles Dickens July 2 1870 p. 418 and an essay on the unfinished novel September 17 1870 p.595. Illustrated with spectacular engravings by C. G. Bush John Gilbert Godefroy Durand Gavarni Pearson Bodmer and many others. Comes with a scarce contemporary Charles Dickens silk bookmark manufactured by Bollans & Co. of Leamington. Covers are worn front cover partially split at spine some very minor insect damage to the edges of some of the leaves. Binding is still solid. Internally very clean. At the time of this writing this is the only complete set of The Mystery of Edwin Drood published by Osgood available. ; Folio. Fields, Osgood, & Co hardcover
1865BB1984London: Chapman & Hall 193 Piccadilly 1865. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. First Issue with all issue points per Smith and November not December catalog at end of volume II. Demy 8vo 211 x 134mm: xii3203-36first advertisement leaf not bound in; viii3124pp with 20 full-page plates in each volume. Publisher's original dark purplish-brown sand-grain cloth covers blocked in blind with decorative arch frame embellished with leaves and flowers; spines richly gilt with leaves flowers and flourishes and lettered in gilt; coated yellow end papers; fore-edge untrimmed. Contemporary ownership inscription of James Martin Wainfleet on fly-leaf and half-title one dated 1866. Original spines very skillfully laid down paper hinges neatly reinforced faint spotting and offsetting from plates else an excellent set tightly bound and clean throughout. Smith I 15. Sadleir 697. Wolff II 1809. Podeschi Gimbel Collection A. Grolier Dickens pp. 154-56. Dickens's last completed novel in two volumes as issued. "Our Mutual Friend had a mixed reception the young Henry James's harshly dismissive review in The Nation is notorious but its stock has risen dramatically in recent years and it is now generally regarded as one of his very greatest works." ODNB. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly unknown
1837BB1712London: John Macrone from 1836 1837. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. Second series" of this collection of short pieces of literary journalism that marked the launch of the young author’s meteoric career. Crown 8vo 194 x 120mm: 4viii3771pp with 10 steel-engraved plates including frontispiece and vignette title page dated 1836 by George Cruikshank. Complete with catalogue of Macrone's publications dated December 1836. Page vi is misnumbered "viii;" list of illustrations gives "Vauxhall Gardens by Day" twice in error and omits final plate "Mr. Minns and his Cousin." All required first edition points present per Smith who notes: "it does not appear possible to associate definitely early or late copies totally with states of the spine endpapers pale yellow or blue location of the plates and whether or not they contain the volume number the absence or presence of the list of illustrations and internal flaws." Publisher's original moderate red morocco-grain cloth covers bordered and decorated in blind with wreath centerpieces black pigmented panels on spine lettered in gilt yellow coated end papers. Blind-embossed in tiny type centered at foot of front cover: "Remnant & Edmonds London" see Ramsden p. 121 and Jamieson p. 11. Housed in made-to-order folding box. Excellent original cloth barely any lightening plates moderately foxed but mostly marginally so pages generally clean bright and virtually free of foxing. Original spines very expertly relaid retaining "dark pigments" for both lettering pieces. The fragile cloth makes this second series devilishly difficult to obtain in such collectible condition. Smith I: 2. Sadleir 700 Eckel pp. 12-13. First Edition of Dickens's rare first work second series in original cloth introducing a major literary talent to Victorian England. In February 1836 John Macrone published Sketches by Boz illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People which came to be known as the “first series." This “second series†appeared in December. Sadleir ranked both series on his list of Dickens raities although in our experience the second series is now the more elusive. "Dickens originally published most of the pieces collected under Sketches in a wide variety of newspapers and periodicals between December 1833 and December 1836 at the beginning struggling just to appear in print. . . . The appearance of 'Boz' as Dickens’s pen-name a corruption of a family nickname Moses via Dickens’s younger brother’s mispronunciation in one of these seven pieces “The Boarding House†marked to a certain degree the young writer coming into his own. . . . " Literary Encyclopedia N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. John Macrone [from 1836] unknown
1853844g45London: Bradbury and Evans 1853. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". H. K. Browne Phiz . A handsome first edition first issue of one of Charles Dickens' most celebrated novels. The first edition first issue. With first issue points as identified by Eckel: 'elgble' to page 19 line 6 "chair" to page 209 line 23 'counsinship' to page 275 line 22 and "picter" to page 529 line 32. Bound from the parts with small stamp holes to the gutter. The original serialisation ran from March 1852 to September 1853 across twenty issues. Each issue cost one shilling though the final double issue cost two shillings.Rebound in a smart quarter morocco binding with gilt lettering to the spine. With the original front paper wraps for No. V of the serial bound in. With a frontispiece engraved title page and thirty-eight full-page plates including the ten dark 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 'David Copperfield' and 'Dombey and Son'.Narrated by Esther Summerson Dickens's novel concerns the long running legal case Jarndyce and Jarndyce in the Court of Chancery. The case surrounds a number of several conflicting wills written by the same person. Inspired by a true story the novel actually helped support a judicial reform in the form of the 1870s Judicature Acts.The half title page is present. With the previous owner's ink signature to the title page. Rebound in quarter morocco. Externally excellent with little shelf wear. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with some age-toning to the edges and spotting to the plates. Scattered spots and handling marks throughout. Previous owner's ink signature to the title page. Small amount of loss to the lower part of page viii. Very Good Indeed Bradbury and Evans hardcover
1870814P2London: Chapman & Hall 1870. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Samuel Luke Fields. The original six parts of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' the final unfinished work of Charles Dickens here in the original serialised parts. Complete in the six original parts - no more parts were published as Dickens died whilst writing.First issue with the "eighteenpence" slip over the one shilling price to the front wrap of Part VI. Complete with all twelve plates called for a well as a portrait frontispiece and engraved title page to Part VI.Collated; Part I lacks page 26/27 of the front advertisements and the four pages of adverts for 'Henry Brett' to the rear; Part III lacks all adverts to the rear besides the Chapman Petter and Galpin 'Publications' adverts; Part V lacking the eight pages of Chapman & Halls 'Recent Publication' adverts to the rear; and Part VI bound without the Wilcox and Gibbs advert 'Concerning Stitches' to the rear.The very scarce fragile advert for 'Cork Hats' to the rear of Part II is present but detached.In a custom cloth box in a very good indeed condition.'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' was Dickens' final work left unfinished upon his death in June 1870 - of the twelve instalments planned only these six had been written. As Dickens hadn't left a clear or detailed plan as to the continuation or resolution of the plot the 'Mystery' was left unsolved.Charles Dickens is possibly the most well-known Victorian author with his fifteen novels still being widely read and performed as well as being studied in school and enjoyed by people of all ages. In the original publisher's paper wraps in a custom cloth box. Externally generally smart. A little edge wear to the wraps resulting in some chips as is usual heavier to the backstrips. Some discolouration to the wraps and a few light handling marks. Front wrap of Part VI is detached but present. Prior owner's pencil note to the head of the front wrap of Part II IV V and VI. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots including to the plates. Portrait frontispiece to Part VI is detached but present. Cloth box with a few light parts in a very good indeed condition. Very Good Chapman & Hall paperback
18372160London: Chapman & Hall 1837. First edition. First edition. Three-quarter contemporary calf. Rare first edition featuring six full-page illustrations by Phiz. Together with the same title Sixth Edition Bound also in three-quarter calf. Both very good tight copies with some wear and brown-toning. Chapman & Hall unknown
1842882246<p>London:: Chapman and Hall 1842. First Edition/First State with the preliminary pages of volume I misnumbered. Smith Part II. 3 - this copy with the variant binding of vertically ribbed cloth.Original Leighton & Eeles cloth binding with their ticket in volume I. Uncut and housed in a 1/2 leather slipcase. Moderate wear and minor foxing and soiling but an exceptionally fresh and sound copy. First Edition - First State. Original Cloth. Very Good. 8vo.</p> Chapman and Hall hardcover
185354782London: Bradbury and Evans 1853. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Large Octavos 8 3/4 x 5 1/2". Original illustrated blue wraps with black lettering on cover housed in custom made clamshell box half morocco over marbled boards with gilt ruling and lettering on spine.<br /> <br /> Original twenty monthly installments in nineteen volumes as issued between March 1852 and September 1853. "Bleak House" is Charles Dickens' ninth novel. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels containing one of the most vast complex and engaging array of minor characters and subplots in his entire canon. The story is told partly by the novel's heroine Esther Summerson and partly by an omniscient narrator. Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce and the childish Harold Skimpole as well as the likable but imprudent Richard Carstone.<br /> <br /> The set has 68 of the 82 back ads called for; "Advertiser" complete in all parts except parts IX and eleven with one leaf each torn out. Back wrappers substituted on parts I> VI> XI> and XVIII; misprint of back cover in part X partially blank. "Newcomes" slip torn out of XIX/XX; a few "Household Words" slips and ad slips torn out or substituted. <br /> <br /> Minor to light rubbing to clamshell box. Wrappers with light soiling fraying around edges. Some paper repair. Limited light marginal pencil notes. Bradbury and Evans unknown
1853141572London: Bradbury Evans 1853. First edition of this Dickens' classic. Octavo bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands top edge gilt marbled endpapers illustrated with engraved title page and 39 engraved plates by H.K. Browne. In very good condition. "In Bleak House for the first time society is seen as an absurdity an irrelevance almost a madness. A dark force from which the real people must escape in order to create another society of their own Dickens had been preparing for this novel all his life and despite the calamities which had helped to provoke it in the first place was even happy while he was writing it It might even be said that Bleak House cured the very malaise which was responsible for its composition" Ackroyd 649-50. "The Dickens cosmos his phantasmagoric London and visionary England emerges in Bleak House with a clarity and pungency that surpasses the rest of his work before and after" Bloom 311. Bradbury Evans hardcover
59751Norwalk CT: Easton Press. Leather. As New. This 21 volume set includes the Easton Press collector's editions of Charles Dickens' complete works bound in genuine burgundy decorated leather. All edges gilt. Some titles have the pasted down Easton Press bookplate with previous owners name on verso of title page. Some titles include blank Easton Press bookplate laid in. Shipping will be expensive especially for international and priority. Be prepared. The list of works includes: A Christmas Carol The Haunted Man The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life The Chimes; Barnaby Rudge A Tale of the Riots of '80; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; The Personal History of David Copperfield; Dombey and Son; Hard Times For These Times; The Old Curiousity Shop; Miscellaneous Papers from 'The Morning Chronicle' 'The Daily News' 'The Examiner' 'Household Words' 'All the Year Round' Etc.; Little Dorrit; American Notes Pictures From Italy The Uncommercial Traveller The Life of Our Lord; Master Humphrey's Clock; Bleak House; Christmas Stories; A Tale of Two Cities; Our Mutual Friend; Sketches by Boz; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Great Expectations; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit; The Adventures of Oliver Twist. 9 x 6" shipping will be extra please inquire. Easton Press unknown
18582161London: Bradbury & Evans 1858. First edition. First edition. Superb full green crushed morocco with gilt edge ruling and lettering with multiple ruled compartments more ornate gilt designs on dentelles by Zaehnsdorf signed “Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1896†in publisher’s stamped letters bottom verso of front endsheet. Original bright green printed wrappers bound in place i.e. entire book bound together as a unit. A superb early Zaehnsdorf binding in near fine condition; contents near fine. Bradbury & Evans unknown
18422230London: Chapman & Hall 1842. Second edition. Second edition. Two volumes. Original light brown fine-grained cloth with elaborate blind-stamped design on both covers and spine gilt lettering on spine smooth yellow endsheets. 308pp; 306pp; 6 page publisher’s prospectus at end. A superb copy in original cloth with slight sunning else fine with cloth clean and crisp gilt on covers bright and all hinges fully intact. Scarce thus. Chapman & Hall unknown
185724318London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue pictorial wrappers. Very good in fine custom felt lined three quarter maroon morocco and marbled and red cloth drop down case. Browne H.K. 625 pages. 22 x 13 cm. In the 20 original parts in 19. 40 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne Phiz including frontispiece and vignette title with latter title page Contents and List of Illustrations housed in last issue. The business relations of Dickens with Bradbury & Evans ended with "Little Dorrit." It was the last of the big novels issued by this firm. This novel like "Pickwick" was an assault on the archaism of imprisonment for debt. First issue with white slip in the center of p. 481 in part XVI and uncorrected errors Rigaud/Blandon in part XV B2 instead of BB2 on page 371 with Gimbel second issue point of page 573 correctly numbered. Text generally clean some plates browned at margins spines have a few nicks and small losses moderate chipping to extremities of some issues. ECKEL pp. 82-85. HATTON & CLEAVER p.307 Bradbury & Evans hardcover
1840132470London: Chapman and Hall 1840-1841. First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo 3 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands morocco spine labels lettered in gilt top edge gilt marbled endpapers tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to each volume illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. In very good condition. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. 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
09573London May 1864-November 1865: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. Original Wraps. In the original monthly parts 20 parts in 19. Original green printed wrappers; ALL wrappers are correct. ALL the ads slips and Advertisers called for by Hatton & Cleaver are present except for the rare ad "The Economic Life Assurance Society" following the plates in parts 14 and 19/20 and "The Churchman's Family Magazine" in part 1. FIRST ISSUE of the wrappers without the imprint at the foot of front wrapper of part 1 and with the first issue text with the misspelling "pricipal" in part 14 page 115 line 38. Part 10 with the text UNOPENED. The plates are very good to fine; tissue guards are in place. Light soiling to some wrappers. Some spines are expertly renewed. Small corner repair to front wrapper of parts 3 4 and 6; small corner repair to rear wrap of part 19/20 and loss at edges. Neat owner name on front wrapper of part 18. Our Mutual Friend has more of the Advertiser ads than any of Dickens' other works having 320 pages and 89 insets and slips in the rear of the parts. Altogether a very good set lacking just two scarce ads and having the first issue points in the wrappers and text. Handsomely presented and it has a pedigree - it is from the famed Thomas Hatton & Cleaver bibliographers collection. Housed in a green faded to brown full leather turn-of-the-century pull-off-top slipcase with chemise. Provenance: The Hatton & Cleaver Collection The Heritage Bookshop Charles Parkhurst Rare Books. Chapman & Hall unknown
184876126London:: Bradbury & Evnas 1848. First edition; slight damage to the page numeral on p. 166. publisher's red gilt- and blind-stamped cloth; a.e.g. Slight use to the backstrip; a very attractive fresh copy. 16mo. Frontispiece; added illustrated title page; engraved text illustrations. Bradbury & Evnas, hardcover
1844023005London: Chapman and Hall 1844. First Edition. Octavo. First issue with "all" the issue points of Smith and Hatton and Cleaver. Although the present copy does have the pound sign before the £100. According to Hatton and Cleaver p.86 the vignette title page was etched in triplicate two of the etchings reading "£ 100" and one "100£". Since all these plates were contemporary and used simultaneously in the printing of the parts there is no first state or priority of the illustration as has been often cited in catalogs. A very handsome copy bound by Morrell in full tan polished calf triple ruled in gilt raised bands with compartments fully gilt decorated red and brown morocco spine labels gilt all edges gilt. Frontispiece does have some scattered foxing but the other plates are clean with an occasional spot or spots of foxing. An exceptionally nice copy. Chapman and Hall unknown
18706257Chapman and Hall 1870. First edition. First edition in book form. Octavo 8 3/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 208 x 133 mm. vii 1 "Illustrations" 190 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens "Engraved by J.H. Baker from a Photograph taken in 1868 by Mason & Co." wood-engraved vignette title by J. Brown and twelve wood-engraved plates two by the firm of Dalziel Brothers ten by Charles Roberts all after Samuel Luke Fildes. Occasional marginal staining wood-engraved plate facing p. 98 with small 1/4 inch marginal tear. A very good copy.<br /> <br /> Together with:<br /> <br /> Edwin Drood Morford Henry attributed to. John Jasper's Secret: Being a Narrative of Certain Events Following and Explaining "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." With Twenty Illustrations. London: Publishing Offices 1872. <br /> <br /> First English edition in book form. Octavo 7 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 201 x 133 mm. iv 252 pp. Twenty wood-engraved plates. Uniformly bound ca. 1920 by Zaehnsdorf for the Gardenside Bookshop Boston stamp-signed in black on verso of front free- endpapers. Full polished tan calf covers decoratively bordered in gilt. Gilt corner pieces with small floral onlays in black morocco decorative center pieces stamped in blind. Spines with five raised band decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with small brown morocco floral onlays. Edwin Drood with two brown morocco labels lettered in gilt John Jasper's Secret with one brown morocco label lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled board edges decorative turn-ins marbled end-papers top edge gilt. Joints a little rubbed but quite sound. A very attractive example housed together in a felt-lined fitted marbled board slipcase.<br /> <br /> The Mystery of Edwin Drood was Dickens's final work left unfinished at the time of his death. "When Dickens died on June 9 1870 he had completed only enough of his manuscript to make up six instalments leaving unfinished a work which had commanded the widest attention for its opening numbers and which promised to be one of his most effective and popular books. Although only three parts had been issued prior to his death publication of the work continued and on completion with Part 6 of all available material the vast army of readers was left high and dry as to 'The Mystery.' The Author during the writing of the story never disclosed the ultimate development of his plot" Hatton and Cleaver. John Jasper's Secret-written by New York journalist Henry Morford 1823-1881 and his wife-was the first of many literary attempts to solve The Mystery of Edwin Drood.<br /> <br /> Smith 16; Gimbel H330; Sadleir 705a; Not in Sadleir. Chapman and Hall unknown
