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8569Dickens Charles. THE NOVELS AND TALES. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1846. 3 vols. First edition. Original deep navy-blue cloth gilt. Some fraying to spine of first volume general mild edge wear discrete library stamps on front end papers and top edges no other markings to text or binding; a bright and attractive set. Included are PICKWICK OLD CURIOSITY SHOP BARNABY RUDGE OLIVER TWIST NICHOLAS NICKLEBY and MARTIN CHUZZLEWITT. We have seen only two other sets: we sold a rebound set more than a decade ago and we have seen a set in shabby condition worn and faded original purple cloth recased with new end papers. Because these volumes were the same size and thickness as the English "octavo novels" very few survive in acceptable condition. This is the first collected edition of Dickens' works published in America and it is entirely unrecorded: Wilkins thought the 1851 Peterson edition was the first collected American edition; Podeschi records only the four-volume reprint of 1851; the McGuire collection included an 1847-8 reprint. This edition even precedes by one year the first `Cheap Edition' of Dickens WORKS published in England and the Chapman & Hall collected edition "Library Edition" of the 1850s. Rare. hardcover books
1884309191London: Chapman and Hall 1884. Facsimile edition one of three printed on vellum. Woodcut portrait vignettes on half-title and title-page woodcut frontispiece and two plates with blank vellum guards by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". iv v i 49 4 blank 1 ads pp. 4to. Contemporary three-quarter red morocco. Joints repaired flaw in margin of one leaf. Facsimile edition one of three printed on vellum. Woodcut portrait vignettes on half-title and title-page woodcut frontispiece and two plates with blank vellum guards by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". iv v i 49 4 blank 1 ads pp. 4to. One of Three Printed on Vellum. Facsimile edition printed on vellum according to Gimbel "one of only three copies that were printed on vellum." Plain paper copies were issued in wrappers with the text and imprint: "A Reproduction in Exact Fac-simile of the Excessively Rare Original. London: J.W. Jarvis 28 King William Street Strand 1884." As with the Gimbel vellum copy this copy is rebound and without wrappers. The Gimbel catalogue identifies copies with and without 4 leaves of front- and end-matter containing an introduction though to be by T.J. Wise and Jarvis ads and notes "another impression" with the heading "Sunday Under Three Heads" on p. 35. The present copy is without the the introduction and ads though the original Chapman and Hall ads are reproduced at the end and has the heading on p. 35.<br/>Sunday Under Three Heads published under the pseudonym Timothy Sparks was "a pamphlet directed against the Sunday Observance Billl an Evangelical measure which would have severly curtailed the Sunday amusements of the labouring and middle classes" Ackroyd p. 185. Gimbel B31 cf. 8th copy. Provenance: Lewis A. Bird bookplate Chapman and Hall unknown books
18481503086Bradbury & Evans 1848. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. A fine first edition in original cloth of the last of Dicken's Christmas books. Housed in a custom-made collector's case. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
185011567London: Bradbury and Evans 1850. First edition in book form of "the most perfect of all the Dickens novels" Virginia Woolf. Octavo bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with black morocco spine label lettered in gilt tooling to the spine and raised gilt bands frontispiece pictorial title page and 38 etched plates by H. K. Browne. In very good condition. 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. it would be strange if it had been otherwise" Eckel 77. "Dickens and Browne are the most celebrated author-artist team in the history of English book illustration" and Copperfield was their "most popular success" Hodnett 111-12. "Charles Dickens and Hablot Knight Browne are the most celebrated author-artist team in the history of English book illustration" and Copperfield was their "most popular success" Hodnett 111-12. Bradbury and Evans hardcover books
18372256London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition. Fine. 8vo: xvi 609 1 complete with 43 inserted plates and the half-title. Many of the textual points are corrected as usual for the book issue. Most plates are in their early state with page numbers rather than captions and without the Chapman and Hall imprints. Both Buss plates are laid in as well as various other variant states of several plates. <br/><br/>A lovely 20th century binding by Riviere and Son in full purple crushed morocco five raised bands on the spine gilt detailing top edge of page block gilt lovely turn-ins and solid blue end papers. Binding in Fine condition internal contents are generally clean although laid in variant plates show moderate darkening and foxing. <br/><br/>Dickens' first novel showcasing his astounding talent for sketching charming sympathetic characters helped to launch his career. "Its main literary value and appeal was formed by its numerous memorable characters.The Pickwick Papers are mostly a series of humorous misadventures with a bit of satire that give some insight into the mores of Victorian society. You can witness Dickens here working on a few prototypes that will show up in later novels.you also see his social consciousness manifesting itself" Inverarity. An important early work that remains beloved by Dickens' fans for its sensationalism and humor. Fine. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1837241617London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First. hardcover. very good. With 43 illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. 607pp. thick 8vo full polished tan morocco with leather labels gilt X spine & dentelles by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First Edition.<br/><br/> As often with the first edition in book form the textual points are in the second state. Less than half the plates are in the first state but this copy has been extra illustrated with 32 plates by Thomas Onwyn. Very clean without foxing or browning.<br/><br/> Chapman and Hall unknown books
1837121551London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition in book form of Dickens' first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo bound in full morocco by Morrell with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands morocco spine labels lettered in gilt triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles all edges gilt marbled endpapers ribbon bound in with 43 engraved plates by Seymour and Browne and the two Buss plates which Dickens requested to be removed in subsequent printings on pages 69 and 74. In fine condition. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional example. Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass the lover Tupman the sportsman Winkle and above all by that quintessentially English Quixote Mr Pickwick and his cockney Sancho Panza Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election via the Fleet debtors prison characters and incidents sprang to life from Dickenss pen to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention. Chapman and Hall unknown books
185529648.3London: Bradbury & Evans 1855. 1st edition Hatton & Cleaver pp 307 - 330. Blue printed wrappers though many vary from Hatton & Cleaver specific details supplied on request. Housed in a custom green morocco half-leather pull-apart case. An overall VG - VG set. Expected moderate wear and chipping. Case - modest wear spine sun-tanned otherwise VG. 20 parts in 19. Adverts per Hatton & Cleaver with the following variances: Part 7 has additional advert for Cassell's History; 12 lacks blue "English Cyclopedia" slip; 13 lacks "Ask Mamma" slip & "Wreck" slip; 14 with one advert leaf torn with loss; 17 with 4 extra adverts Cassell & Nortons; 18 lacks "Cyclopedia" but adds 3 other advert leaves. 40 steel plates by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". 8vo. <br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
18701001.11London: Chapman & Hall 1870. First edition BFTP Eckel p. 96; Smith I 16. With a Dickens AN on Gadshill letterhead plus the original addressed envelope for same. Later tan half calf binding with marbled paper boards. TEG. Original blue printed wrappers plus Drood Advertisers bound-in at rear Part II & Part III front wrappers serve as front & rear fixed eps respectively. Some rubs to spine & extremities. Occasional light foxing & period newspaper clipping affixed to rear blank. Bookplate of William Hardcastle. A solid VG copy. vii 1 190 2 pp. Adverts last 2 pp. Frontis & 12 inserted B&W plates by Luke Fildes corner stain to half just touching image portion of plate. 8vo. 9" scant x 5-3/4" <br/><br/>With a tipped-in apparently unpublished autograph note by the author in the third person on Gad's Hill Place letterhead dated Monday Twelfth October 1860 63: "In reply to Mr Donnell's letter Mr Charles Dickens begs to wish him all success. If Mr Dickens should have an opportunity of recommending him which he fears is not very likely he will most gladly do so remembering Mr Donnell for a good many years as one of the most obliging and attentive of Mr Truefitt's assistants". With accompanying envelope addressed to Donnell and small press cutting opposite stating that Donnell had shaved the Duke of Connaught in the early seventies and that this was incorrect as Donnell was not a barber but a wig maker and perfumer. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
1859Embry 184117Chapman and Hall London: 1859. First edition first issue. Some cosmetic touch up overall near fine and internally wide margined and bright in custom mylar cover and modern lightly rubbed cloth slipcase. Sixteen illustrations by H. K. Browne including the fontispiece and vignette titlepage. Green calf-backed marbled boards edges marbled. This copy is lacking page ix List of Plates but with no sign of having been excised. All other issue points conform to the first issue points called for in Walter Smith's "Charles Dickens in Original Cloth Part I. Chapman and Hall, London: 1859. First edition, first issue. hardcover books
184033147London: Chapman & Hall 1840. 12mo 26.2 cm 10.3". 3 vols. I: Frontis. 2 iv 306 pp.; illus. II: Frontis. incl. in pagination vi 306 pp.; illus. III: Frontis. incl. in pagination vi 426 pp.; illus. <br><br>First book-form edition of Dickens's weekly periodical a variety of pieces gathered under a framing device of a storytelling circle led by Master Humphrey and the other members of his club. The serial marked => the first appearance of Barnaby Rudge as well as of the enormously popular The Old Curiosity Shop which more or less took over the author's original design of focusing on articles and sketches.<br>Â Â Â Â The three volumes are => illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot "Phiz" Browne with numerous in-text engravings displaying the former artist's skill with architecture and views and the latter's with humor and character. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â NSTC 2D11892; Smith Dickens in the Original Cloth 6. Publisher's ribbed maroon cloth covers with blind-stamped floral and arabesque frame and front covers with gilt-stamped clock vignette spines gilt extra; extremities rubbed spines faded joints tender with some starting from extremities cloth showing small splits at joint and spine extremities each volume now housed in a maroon cloth chemise and the trio in a matching box. Front pastedowns with small attractive institutional bookplate; vol. III with small area of abrasion from now-lacking bookplate. Pages faintly age-toned with a very few scattered light spots overall pleasingly clean. Vol. III with small nick to upper outer edge of first few leaves. => An attractive item of Dickensiana with two of the author's most significant illustrators splendidly represented. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
108374London: Chapman and Hall April 1838 - October 1839. Thick 8vo. 24ads 8ads 8ads 2ads 4 original wrappers 4 ads xvi 1-624 4 ads 6 ads 8ads 8ads pp. 40 plates including frontisportrait. Full dark-brown calf backstrip with maroon label and title stamped in gilt. All plates are foxed though text and binding are bright; very good. § First edition bound from the original parts with blue wrappers from number eighteen and numerous advertisements bound in. A unique selection and collation of choice advertisements and all relevant material to the novel collected and handsomely bound. Chapman and Hall unknown books
21845London: Chapman and Hall 1865. First Edition. 2 volumes; octavo 23cm.; original burgundy blind-tooled cloth decorative gilt spines; xi132036;vii130933pp.; frontis. & 38 plates. Both volumes recased with new endpapers to match original yellow glazed endpapers half titles preserved; cover blind-tooling neary imperceptible extremities a bit rubbed and faded spine crowns reinforced to match though affecting gilt ruling; Vol. I plates uniformly dampstained apparently before binding. Still a Very Good sound set. GIMBEL A150; SMITH 15. Chapman and Hall unknown books
18401271871840. First Edition. DICKENS Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock. London: Chapman and Hall 1840-41. Three volumes. Large octavo contemporary full green cloth burgundy morocco spine labels uncut. $2500.First edition in book form with frontispieces and almost 200 in-text illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Knight Browne ""Phiz"". Includes The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge.When Dickens conceived of this work he ""had already written his preface to Nickleby in which for the first time he adopts that fond and agreeable tone towards his audience which he wished to continue"" in Master Humphrey's Clock ""his aim being he said that of ' one who wished their happiness and contributed to their amusement.' Here is Dickens as the man of feeling uniting all his readership in a concord of affection and brotherhood"" Ackroyd 291. First issued in both weekly and monthly parts. Bound without dedication leaf in Volume I. Hatton & Cleaver 163-64. Eckel 67-70. Smith 6. Interiors clean and fine just a touch of rubbing to extremities mild toning to spines near-fine. hardcover
1853140945989London: Bradbury & Evans 1853. First Edition. Very Good. First edition in book form first issue with 'Christmas 1851' on dedication page and ad pages as described by Eckel. 1852 1853 1854 but actually 1851-1853. Complete in three volumes. x 210pp; viii 214pp; x 210pp ads in rear of each volume Bound in red blind stamped publisher's cloth titled in gilt with pictorial gilt decoration at centers. Very Good with fading at spines slight lean to bindings. minor soiling and dust staining to covers; volume two has heavier staining to top edge of front board and crown; staining persists through binding in first gathering. All edges marbled. Contents slightly tanned with minor instances of foxing. Dickens' anti-aristocratic and anti-monarchical history of England written for children in the original cloth. Bradbury & Evans unknown
186096189London: St. Lukes Hospital 1860. First edition first issue of Charles Dickens' article on Saint Luke's Hospital "for the gratuitous treatment of the insane poor." Octavo loosely bound in wrappers. In near fine condition. Housed in a custom full morocco and chemise pull-off box. Rare. Dickens' A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree was published by St. Luke's Hospital in 1860 to raise funds for their Hospital for Lunatics. The volume contains a sketch about a visit to St. Luke's at Christmas by Dickens along with another piece he wrote about the hospital from an unsigned article in the London Times. St. Lukes Hospital unknown
1842776261842. DICKENS Charles. American Notes for General Circulation. Original embossed cloth. London: Chapman and Hall 1842. 2 Vols. First edition first issue. HOWES D-316. Eckel p.108. Smith II:3. Dickens' reactions to his visit badly affected his relations with American readers for some time. Of Philadelphia he wrote "It is a handsome city but distractingly regular. After walking about it for an hour or two I felt that I would have given the world for a crooked street." Spines very slightly sunned. Very good or better. unknown
1853148214London: Bradbury Evans 1853. First edition of this Dickens' classic. Octavo bound in full calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands top edge marbled marbled endpapers illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispiece engraved title page and 39 engraved plates by H.K. Browne. With three key typographical errors called for in the first edition: "elgble" on page 19 line 6; "chair" instead of "hair" on page 209 line 23; and "counsinship" instead of cousinship on page 275 line 22. In near fine condition with light toning. Original cloth covers bound in at rear. Ownership plate to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. "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
1846149076London: Bradbury & Evans 1846-48. First edition in the scarce original parts of Dickens tale of the fortunes of the Dombey shipping firm. Octavo 20 parts in 19 original wrappers with 40 etchings by Halbot Knight Brown containing all advertisements as issued. A mixed state set with the following points: Part I with no ads on inner front wrapper rear wrapper blank all other parts with called for ads on wrappers; twelve-line errata slip present in Part V "delight" for "joy" twice on page 284; "Captain" on last line of page 324;  page 426 “if†is not present on line 9; on page 431 the page number is not present which marks it as the earliest issue. In very good condition. Housed in a custom cloth chemise and slipcase. Scarce and desirable. 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 & Evans hardcover
1873840771873. DICKENS Charles. Dickens' Works spine title. London: Chapman and Hall 1873-76. 30 vols. Illus. frontises. Three-quarter blue morocco spine gilt in six compartments t.e.g. With bookplate of Jane Thayer Lough on front pastedowns. Partially unopened. Fine. Undated thirty volume set of Dickens' collected works. A set of Dickens' works was first issued in 22 volumes in 1858-9 as the Library Edition; it was reissued with additional works in 30 volumes and illustrated title pages between 1861 and 1874 and was known as the Illustrated Library Edition. "Recognizing the continuing potential for sales of Dickens's works Chapman and Hall in 1873 published a prospectus for the Second Illustrated Library Edition containing they contended all the works the novelist wished to preserve. Calling it the first well-printed issue with specially cast type and better paper than that used in previous editions this set was published in 30 volumes between 1873 and 1876 and sold at 15 for the set a high price for the time" - Oxford Companion to Dickens. See also Gimbel D72. unknown
18486253London: Bradbury & Evans 1848. First edition. First issue with the 'eight-line errata' following all but a very few of the points in Smith in book form of Dickens' seventh novel bound from the original monthly parts with stab-holes present in the inner margins of gatherings. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in; 222 x 138 mm. xvi 1 errata 1 blank 624 pp. Engraved frontispiece titlepage and thirty-eight plates after Hablot K. Browne "Phiz" including the 'dark' plate "On the Dark Road" facing p. 547. Some of the plates with light foxing mainly marginal otherwise a very clean and partially uncut example. Publisher's 'primary' binding of moderate olive-green fine-diaper grain cloth; the front and back covers entirely stamped in blind with a three-line border which encloses a rectangular frame that occupies the length of the covers. The frame contains an ornament of leaves and stems in each corner and a chain-like design that runs along its inner edge; each segment of the chain encloses a four-headed flower and is bordered by a nipple. The spine is lettered in gilt and stamped in blind with a thick band at its top and bottom and four rectangular panels. Original pale orange-yellow coated endpapers. With nearly all of the 'internal flaws' mentioned by Smith uncorrected. Front joint head and tail of spine and inner hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired spine slightly faded. An excellent example far better than is usually seen of this now hard to find Dickens novel in the original cloth. <br /> <br /> Dombey and Son tackles a number of key themes that appear throughout Dickens' authorial career-concerns about family duty class position child welfare and the dangers of arranged marriages in particular. As the titular Dombey builds his shipping company he fantasizes that his son will someday take over the business and continue his legacy. But England is changing rapidly due to the effects of industrialization and its effects ripple throughout Victorian culture. One symbol of industrialization's promise and its perils is the railroad. In chapter six Dickens calls the railroad's impact a "great earthquake." Dombey and Son grapples with the effects of industrialization and the railroad is one of the novel's symbols for this momentous era. The book first "appeared in twenty numbers bound in nineteen monthly parts the last forming a double number from October 1846 - April 1848. It was published in book form on April 12 1848. at 21s. Dombey and Son contains the first published example of a so-called dark plate which was created by a machine process that tinted the etched plate and heightened its black-and-white contrast. The one dark plate in Dombey and Son is "On the Dark Road" p. 547. The smooth blending of light and shadow on this illustration vividly contrasts it with the other illustrations in the novel and is a fine example of the dark plate process" Smith.<br /> <br /> Smith I:8. Sadleir 687. Wolff 1798. Bradbury & Evans unknown
021131London; from March 30 1850-May 28 1859: Bradbury and Evans. Octavo. In 19 volumes double-column. A weekly collection of stories a mixture of fiction and nonfiction along with social issues of the time. While Dickens was the editor and he did serialize a few of his stories through this magazine it have several "unnamed" contributors. An American edition was published but not well received as it pertained to the English way of life not American. Complete London editions are scarce. A complete set bound in 3/4 contemporary red morocco over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers all edges marbled. raised bands gilt title within one compartment gilt. All hinges and joints are fine and tight internally clean and bright without foxing. Some rubbing or darkening to bindings. From the library Joseph Greene with his armorial bookplate. A very nice set containing six of the nine extra Christmas numbers. (Bradbury and Evans) unknown
1861308427N.p. London 1861. Lithographic facsimile printing of the original autograph letter. Two pages printed in blue-black ink on laid paper. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Old fold. Lithographic facsimile printing of the original autograph letter. Two pages printed in blue-black ink on laid paper. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Uncommon printed facsimile of this notable letter from Charles Dickens writing as the editor of All the Year Round to Rev. Hughes of St Gallgo's Church whose heroic efforts at the time of the wreck of the Royal Charter off the coast of Anglesey in August 1859 inspired Dickens to write the "little article" mentioned here published in All the Year Round for 28 January and subsequently adapted as the first chapter of The Uncommercial Traveller. The invitation extended by Dickens to the minister and his family is poignant as the strain of the exertions contributed to Hughes' untimely death on 4 February 1862.<br /> <br /> In the British Academy/Pilgrim Edition of Dickens' letters the original letter is recorded as in the collection of Mrs. A.K. Frazer; it is further noted that "facsimiles of this letter were sold by Hughes to provide a monument now in Llanallgo Church to those drowned in the Royal Charter." This allows a narrow dating to 1860 or 1861. No copies of this facsimile are recorded in the Gimbel collection in other major Dickens holdings or in OCLC.<br /> <br /> The facsimile reproduces Dickens' Office of All the Year Round letterhead in monochrome slightly reduced and the text is as follows:<br /> <br /> My Dear Mr Hughes <br /> You will receive from my printer's office by this same post a Proof of the little article I have written on the subject of my late visit. I am under the necessity of asking you to send it back to W. Wills here by return of post. For although a fortnight will elapse before it is published the mechanical necessities of this Journal and its simultaneous publication in England and America render its going to press at once imperative.<br /> I doubt whether I am quite right respecting the number of the drowned buried in your churchyard and the greatest number that lay in the church at one time. Will you do me the favour to correct me on those points And if you should observe any similar inaccuracy will you do me the additional kindness to mark it I trust that there is nothing in the article that you or your household will find displeasing. I have written it out of the honest convictions of my heart and in the hope that it will at least soften the distress of many people from whom you have not yet heard. It says for me all that I should otherwise have attempted to say in this note and merely strives to express what any visitor to you must surely feel. <br /> My daughters have taken a great interest in all I have told them and particularly in Mrs Hughes's idea of coming to London in the summer. They earnestly beg me to assure her and you that they hope to know you both very well and that it will be an uncommon gratification to them if you will come and see us down at my Kentish house on the top of Shakespeare's Gad's Hill which is little more than an hour's railway ride from town. <br /> I beg to present my true regard to the ladies of your house and to your brother and to assure you of the hearty esteem and respect with which I am Very faithfully yours <br /> Charles Dickens. <br /> This same post will also bring you the documents you also lent me returned with thanks. The Letters of Charles Dickens British Academy/Pilgrim Edition Vol. 9: 1859-1861 pp. 196-7 unknown
1857295638London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrations by H.K. Browne. 625 pages. Thick 8vo old calf re-backed in modern tan leather with leather spine label. Bound in at the end are all the front and back blue printed wrappers from the serial edition as well as most of the trade ads. London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First Edition.<br/> <br/> First issue with the 3 line errata on p. xiv signature B2 on p. 371 and "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on p 469-474. The plates are browned at the edges but not foxed.<br/> <br/> Bradbury & Evans unknown
185755017London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First edition with early issue points as per Smith pp. 467-474 uncorrected etc. Illustrated with 40 etched plates after drawings by H.K. Browne "Phiz". 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt spine darkened covers a little rubbed and faded; plates with usual darkening at margins title and frontispiece slightly foxed and darkened -- still quite a good copy and infrequently seen in publisher's cloth. First edition with early issue points as per Smith pp. 467-474 uncorrected etc. Illustrated with 40 etched plates after drawings by H.K. Browne "Phiz". 1 vols. 8vo. Smith 12 Bradbury & Evans unknown