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183751511837. London: 1837. <br /> <br /> 8vo xvi 609 4 ads 1 address. Forty-three plates including "Veller" title-page. Old half red morocco gilt top bookplate of James Burra. Some edge-browning or foxing to some plates but a pleasant almost untrimmed copy. <br /> <br /> § First edition bound from the parts with half-title. First states of most of the points. A very acceptable copy of one the great classics of English literature. Gimbel A15. Grolier 100 English 78. Hatton & Cleaver pages 3-88. Smith I 3. unknown
000008Society of English Fiction. One of 750. edition. 3/4 morocco. Some slight rubbing - Excellent. 8vo. 15 volumes. A complete set beautifully bound in 3/4 brown morocco. Society of English Fiction. unknown
GT13181860: Chapman and Hall. 1st edition 3rd Issue . Hardcover. Fine. large 8vo. H.K.Browne. 2 x 254 2pp. Single Volume. Original green buckram blocked with gilt titles to the spine and dec. borders to the front and rear boards. Spine a trifle toned.16 plates by Phiz. P 213 corrected. but 'affectionately' corrected on p134 and 'Stryver' is mis-spelled on p.94. The original end-papers are unmarked and both fine. No inscriptions marks or under-lining. Please email for photos. <br/> <br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover
1983ZB1313227Oxford University Press & The Franklin Library 1983. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 21 volumes limited to 7500 sets gilt-stamped full red leather hardcovers moire endpapers and pastedowns a.e.g. some rubbing and light flecking to page edge gilt mostly the top edge of pages else a fine set. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Oxford University Press & The Franklin Library hardcover
183761136London: Chapman & Hall 1837. First edition 8vo pp. xiv 2 609 1; a set likely bound from the original parts generally a mixed issue as is typical with many early points present; 43 etched plates by Robert Seymour H. K. Browne "Phiz" and Robert William Buss engraved title page reads "Veller" Buss plates not replaced by Phiz plates 20th-century half blue morocco over blue cloth gilt decorated spine in 6 compartments gilt title in 6 t.e.g.; joints rubbed and just starting frontispiece with short crease bookplate of William Howard Bovey and his blind stamp on title page and p. 99 very light occasional spotting all else very good. A notoriously difficult book bibliographically. This copy with Directions to the Binder leaf with 6 line errata on verso; pages 25-26 a single inset leaf; that and the following leaf both bearing the signature mark `E'; page 341-2 is in its second state Hatton & Cleaver variant B frontispiece has 4 stripes on the chair later there were five stripes; engraved title page reads "Veller" second plate" etc. Eckel pp. 23-50; Hatton & Cleaver pp. 3-88; Podeschi A16. Chapman & Hall unknown
1987043816Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 21 Volume Set Complete With Original Box. The Box Is In Good Shape With The Word Sold On An Attached Sticker. The Word Sets Written With Black Marker On The Top. A Few Volumes Have Light Dust Soiling To The Upper Page Edges. Most Volumes Show A Trace Of Wear At The Lower Board Edges. Sketches By Boz Has A Crease To The Front Flap And A Brown Mark On The Ffep. Includes The Following: V. 1 Sketches By Boz - V. 2 The Pickwick Papers - V. 3 Oliver Twist - V. 4 Nicholas Nickleby - V. 5 The Old Curiosity Shop - V. 6 Barnaby Rudge - V. 7 Master Humphrey's Clock ; And A Child's History Of England - V. 8 American Notes ; And Pictures From Italy - V. 9 Martin Chuzzlewit - V. 10 Christmas Books - V. 11 Dombey And Son - V. 12 David Copperfield - V. 13 Bleak House - V. 14 Hard Times - V. 15 Little Dorrit - V. 16 A Tale Of Two Cities - V. 17 Great Expectations - V. 18 The Uncommercial Traveller ; And Reprinted Pieces - V. 19 Christmas Stories - V. 20 Our Mutual Friend - V. 21 The Mystery Of Ediwn Drood. Each Volume Has Special T.P. And Includes The Original Illustrations By "Phiz" Hablot K. Browne And Other Artists. Earlier Published As: The New Oxford Illustrated Dickens. <br/> <br/> Oxford University Press hardcover
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18432158<p>It is bound as one book which makes me uncertain however. <br />I think that this is the tauhe actual first rare state of A christmas carol published 1843 by Tauchnitz from 1846 actually since all are bound together rare regardless. <br />The book is very good. Free from writing inside and stains. The original binding is beautiful. <br />It is also bound with the haunted man and the chimes later though.<br />The book has all of the following first edition identifiers as seen in my further description</p><p>There is a later Tauchnitz edition with 1843 as the printing year but it does not have the 78 pages of the genuine first edition nor the text "Edition sanctioned by the Author" on the title page or the shortened version of the title page publisher where the correct one is "Leipzig Bernh. jun. Tauchnitz 3 Jun. Tauchnitz". Finally the genuine edition has "The End" at the end while the "nd" has been dropped in the later edition which says "The E" and which has 112 pages etc.</p><p>References:<br />https://victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/tauchnitz.html</p> Leipzig tauchnitz hardcover
1867961F40London: Chapman and Hall 1867-1868 . Leather. Very Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. A handsomely bound fourteen volume set of the works of the most important novelist of the Victorian era illustrated throughout and in half calf bindings. An impressive fourteen volume set of Chapman and Hall's 'The Charles Dickens Edition' of the works of Charles Dickens beautifully uniformly bound in half calf with gilt detailing to back strips.Published in 1867:'Dombey and Sons' illustrated with eight plates.'The Old Curiosity Shop' illustrated with eight plates.'The Personal History of David Copperfield' illustrated with eight plates.'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club' illustrated with eight plates.'Martin Chuzzlewit' illustrated with eight plates.'Nicholas Nickleby' illustrated with eight plates.'Oliver Twist' illustrated with eight plates.Published in 1868: 'Our Mutual Friend' illustrated with eight plates.'Sketches by Boz' illustrated with eight plates.'A Tale of Two Cities' illustrated with eight plates.'Bleak House' illustrated with eight plates.'Christmas Books' illustrated with eight plates.'American Notes and Reprinted Pieces' illustrated with eight plates.'Barnaby Rudge' illustrated with eight plates.Collated complete.Dickens is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.With the stamp of bookseller Edmund Durrant to a front blank of each volume. In half calf bindings with gilt detailing to back strips and cloth covered boards. Externally lovely. A touch of fading to back strips as is common with calf of this shade. A touch of rubbing to back strip heads and tails. Tail of front joint of Bleak House starting with boards firmly held. Internally firmly bound. Pages age toned with instances of significant spotting to each volume most concentrated to leaves surrounding plates. Very Good Chapman and Hall hardcover
181976264London / Oxford: Miller 1819 / 1820 / 1822 / 1837 / 1840 / 1836. 12mo.Illustrated. viii 123; iv 192; 20; viii 80; viii 76; 92; viii p.40; viii 34 pp. Full black morocco bearing gilt lettering and decoration to the spine alongside gilt ruling devices and turn ins to the boards. All edges gilt. With in-text illustrations and engraved plates throughout. some edgewear at the spine and corners with scratching and faint white markings to the spine and boards. Slight lean to binding. Occasional spots and pencil inscriptions throughout. With a Malayan and British Borneo dollar dated 1941 loosely enclosed in the prelims. This volume privately bound brings together 8 early 19th century titles of humorous witty and satirical prose and verse. Volume 1: Broad Grins by English dramatist George Colman the Younger. Formerly published under the title 'My Night-Gown and Slippers' this edition of Colman's humorous writings includes a number of additional coarse satirical verses. Volume 2: The first edition of Henry Lutrell's Advice to Julia his most famous work of London society verse. Volume 3: The Pleasure of Making a Will which is an extract from William Kitchiner's 'The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life'. Volume 4: The first edition of Sketches of Young Ladies by "Quiz" Edward Caswall illustrated by "Phiz". Volume 5: The first edition of Sketches of Young Gentlemen by Charles Dickens also illustrated by "Phiz" written as a satirical response to Caswall's Sketches of Young Ladies the previous title in this volume. Volume 6: The first edition of Sketches of Young Couples by Charles Dickens illustrated by "Phiz". Following on from Sketches of Young Gentlemen this title was the second and last in series of humerous sketches by Dickens. Volume 7: A New Art Teaching How to Be Plucked by Scribelerus Redivivus Edward Caswall providing a satirical treatise on the 'art' of failing exams. With a fold out 'Synopsis of Drinking' at p.22. Volume 8: The Devil's Walk: A Poem jointly written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey published under the pseudonym Professor Porson. . Very Good. Full Morocco. 1819. Miller 1819 / 1820 / 1822 / 1837 / 1840 / 1836 unknown
1880014879London: Chapman & Hall 1880. Books measure 22.5x16.cm. No printed date circa 1880. Illustrated by Cruikshank Browne Stone. Bound in original publishers green cloth with black stamped tooling gilt lettering. Cloth lightly rubbed some abrasion wear 5 volumes have light staining to cloth 2 volumes have heavier staining. Generally all bindings in good clean firm condition. Internally light browning to endpapers minor spotting. Pages and illustrations in good clean condition. A nice clean set. Complete in 30 volumes plus 2 volumes. Life of Charles Dickens. 1.The Adventures of Oliver Twist. 2. American Notes for General Circulation and Pictures from Italy.3 & 4 Barnaby Rudge. 5 Sketches by Boz. 6 & 7 The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club. 8 & 9 The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. 10 &11 The Old Curiosity Shop. 12 A Tale of Two Cities. 13 The Uncommercial Traveller. 14 &15 Little Dorrit. 16 &17 Bleak House. 18 & 19 Dombey and Son. 20 & 21 The Personal History of David Copperfield. 22 Great Expectations. 23 The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Stories. 24 A Child's History of England. 25 Christmas Books. 26 & 27 Our Mutual Friend. 28 & 29 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. 30 Christmas Stories. 31 & 32 The Life of Charles Dickens. C2. Cloth. Near Very Good. Illus. by George Cruikshank. 8vo. Chapman & Hall Hardcover
1860138191London: St Luke's Hospital 1860. A rarity in original wrappers First edition second issue. Together with the original stamped and addressed envelope for the return of donations tipped-in at the end. In this second issue the appeal for funds was emphasized by placing the final paragraph in bold text and it included a stamped and addressed envelope for the return of donations. The sketch was first published in Household Words 17 January 1852 and here published as a pamphlet by the management of St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics as a means of soliciting donations. Octavo 20 pp. Original pink wrappers printed in black expertly rebacked. Housed in a custom black solander cloth box printed paper label to spine. Traces of vertical fold otherwise a particularly fine copy. Eckel p. 188; Gimbel B216. hardcover
1870136324London: John Camden Hotten 1870. The suggestion that created Oliver Twist First edition of the first posthumous biography of Dickens signed and heavily annotated by the journalist Edmund Ollier 1826-1886. Ollier's marginalia draw on long acquaintance: his father the publisher Charles Ollier had known Dickens and was a central figure in early 19th-century literary London issuing Shelley's works publishing Keats's Poems 1817 and advising Colburn and Bentley. Edmund grew up amid this milieu later contributing poetry and prose to Dickens's Household Words and earning Dickens's praise as "an excellent and true young poet". Ollier read Taverner and Hotten's hasty biography - rushed to press within a fortnight of Dickens's death - with evident irritation. He corrects factual errors journal titles illustrators dates prices adjusts several claims about Dickens's professional commitments and adds observations drawn from personal knowledge. He also records contemporary opinions such as Douglas Jerrold's views on public executions. One annotation is particularly striking: "I recollect my father used to say that Dickens originally intended to make only a short story of Oliver Twist but he my father recommended him to give it the usual three-volume dimensions. My father was at that time engaged at Bentley's." This claim - absent from standard Dickens biographies - would if accurate assign to Charles Ollier the suggestion that transformed Oliver Twist from a short tale into a full-length novel. Ollier's notes also reveal his sensitivity to his own place in Dickens's circle. On finding himself insufficiently acknowledged he protests in the third person only to retract the complaint when he discovers a reference to his contributions. His use of proofing marks and direct appeals to Hotten suggest he hoped these emendations might inform a corrected edition; none were adopted. The volume was subsequently rebound and extensively extra-illustrated in the early 20th century with over 60 added plates of Dickensian subjects producing a characteristically grangerized and visually impressive copy. Octavo 187 x 124 mm. Vignettes in text; extra-illustrated with portrait frontispiece 52 portraits 11 views and 5 facsimiles. Early 20th-century calf with straight-grain pattern by Morrell red and brown morocco labels spine gilt to compartments triple gilt fillet to covers gilt floral turn-ins light blue endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed. Joints expertly restored short closed tear at head of p. 239 a few other minor peripheral nicks and chips. A very good copy. unknown
1848159902London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love First edition bound from the original monthly parts as first published from September 1846 to March 1848 with the stab-holes visible and with a selection of the original wrappers bound in. Dombey and Son is "now recognized as one of the greatest of all his works. It is also the first one to have an explicitly contemporary setting" ODNB. The novel is further noted for containing "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. The technique was later put to use for ten plates in Bleak House and eight in Little Dorrit. Octavo 220 x 140 mm. Etched frontispiece vignette title page and 38 plates by Hablot Knight Browne Phiz. Complete with half-title. Near-contemporary green half calf by Tout spine with raised bands compartments tooled in gilt marbled sides ruled in gilt marbled and gilt endpapers top edge gilt green silk bookmarker. With 15 wrappers from the original monthly parts bound in at rear. Contemporary ownership inscription of one E. C. Murray dated 1886 to a binder's blank contemporary newspaper clipping containing an article on Dickensian names in the London Directory pasted below further signs of ownership to wrappers. Spine sunned a couple of small scuffs to sides front joint superficially split but firm very occasional and mainly marginal foxing to contents plates generally bright a few small marks otherwise clean. A very good copy attractively bound. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 227-50; Smith I 8. hardcover
1836138190London: Chapman and Hall 1836-37. With early Dickens stories First editions in book form the first volume containing two early pieces by Dickens as Boz - "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" and "A Little Talk About Spring and the Sweeps". Both were collected in Sketches by Boz published later in the same year. The second volume completing the publication does not contain any work by Dickens but contains illustrations by his illustrators Phiz Seymour and Buss. 2 vols octavo. 28 plates by Hablot Knight Browne Phiz R. Seymour R. W. Buss and others. Original dark green diced cloth secondary bindings - the primary binding in black and blue cloth respectively rebacked with original spines laid down spines lettered in gilt. Housed in red cloth chemises within red morocco book-form box spines lettered in gilt. Refurbished with expert repair to bindings and hinges some spotting and browning. Very good copies. Eckel pp. 137-39; Gimbel E122. hardcover
1857191181London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind First edition bound from the original monthly parts as published from December 1855 to June 1857. Peter Ackroyd declares the novel is Dickens's "single most ferocious onslaught against England and English society; against its government against its financiers against its artists and even against its ordinary citizens. He had of course made attacks of such a kind before but they had always been directed against specific abuses and in Oliver Twist for example the powers of money and benevolence together could at least rescue the doomed orphan child. In Little Dorrit money itself is seen to be a faithless and corrupt delusion" p. 758. Octavo 212 x 132 mm. Etched frontispiece vignette title page 38 plates 8 of which are "dark plates" by H. K. Browne Phiz. Contemporary brown calf black leather spine label compartments tooled in gilt marbled sides blind roll to sides and corners orange-pink endpapers edges sprinked red. Bookplate and ownership inscription of stockbroker Harman Grisewood 1821-1874 Daylesford House Worcestershire. A little rubbed edges lightly worn couple of pencil annotations to contents occasional foxing bright overall. A very good copy. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 307-30; Smith I.12. Peter Ackroyd Dickens 1990. hardcover
1839175745London: Chapman and Hall 1839. His third major novel First edition bound from the parts of one of Dickens's most politically pointed novels. Nicholas Nickleby was written at the end of a turbulent decade in which the Reform Act and Poor Law Amendment Act had led to widespread unemployment and depression and published in the year of the first Chartist uprising at Newport. Written after the widespread success of The Pickwick Papers and at the same time as Oliver Twist Dickens wanted to capitalize on the best aspect of both of these works - the comedy in Pickwick and the social criticism in Oliver. According to Dickens's biographer "he did not want to lose either his reputation as a topical and polemical novelist or his fame as a comic one. So in Nicholas Nickleby he devised a plot capacious enough to include both aspects of his genius" Ackroyd p. 254. The edition was issued in monthly parts from April 1838 to October 1839 with sheets issued in book form on completion. This is a copy bound from the parts with stab-holes. Provenance: William Frederick Fownes Tighe 1784-1878 with his contemporary ownership inscription to the title page and his bookplate to the front pastedown. The heraldic device of the Tighe family is in gilt on the top compartment of the spine identified by the British Armorial Bindings project at the University of Toronto accessible online. Tighe was first cousin once removed to the poet Mary Tighe and in 1825 married Louisa Maddelena daughter of Charles Lennox 4th duke of Richmond. Octavo 209 x 131 mm. Engraved portrait of Dickens after D. Maclise with facsimile signature 39 plates by H. K. Browne Phiz. Contemporary red half morocco spine lettered in gilt with raised gilt bands compartments decorated in gilt red cloth sides marbled endpapers and edges. Bound without half-title. Slight discolouration to cloth sides occasional foxing marks and creasing to pages two small closed tears. A very good copy. Eckel p. 64-66; Hatton & Cleaver p. 131-160; Smith I 5. Peter Ackroyd Dickens 1990. hardcover
1836138195London: Richard Bentey 1836. Dickens rarity in original unsewn sheets First edition of Dickens's comic opera in the original sheets never bound or sewn. The Village Coquettes opened on 6 December 1836. "The quaint humour unaffected pathos and graceful lyrics of this production found prompt recognition and the piece enjoyed a prosperous run" George Sala Speeches Letters and Sayings of Charles Dickens p. 10. Octavo. Original unbound and unsewn sheets five signatures. Preserved in card folder inside custom green velvet-lined red morocco gilt box upper lid of box detached the box preserved for protective reasons only. Light foxing and toning minor chipping at peripheries. Eckel p 158; Gimbel A25. unknown
1840355971London: Chapman and Hall 1840. Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. 3 Volumes as originally issued and bound in 2. Good copies only in contemporary calf over marble board bindings. Spine bands worn. Scattered foxing as with age. Physical description: 3 Volumes bound in 2. Subjects: Gordon Riots 1780; Fiction. Historical fiction. English fiction 19th century. Gordon Riots 1780; Fiction. Dickens Charles. London: Chapman and Hall hardcover
1877ST20685-8Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1877. First American Edition. 123 x 85 mm. 4 3/4 x 3 1/4". 80 pp. 4 leaves ads. <br/> VERY PLEASING GREEN MOROCCO BY RIVIERE & SONS stamp-signed on front turn-in covers framed with gilt rules densely tooled cornerpieces with floral sprigs on a stippled ground raised bands spine panels lavishly gilt with a starburst of floral tools emanating from a central medallion all on a stippled ground gilt lettering turn-ins gilt ruled with floral garlands at the corners all edges gilt original very well-preserved gilt cloth wrappers bound in at rear. Half-title with ink inscription: "Wm H. Drake / July 4 '83." Eckel pp.159-61; Podeschi B-62. Spine just slightly sunned though difficult to tell because of all the gilt but a very fine copy in a gleaming unworn binding and with only the most trivial imperfections internally.<br/> <br/> Attractively bound by a major workshop this is Dickens' third stage play a one-act farce heavy on confusion and coincidence focusing on jealousy and misunderstandings between two married couples. Its stage run in 1837 coincided with a printed version of the play but Eckel says that copies of this first edition no longer exist. The publisher of our edition James Osgood had acquired the sole surviving copy of the 1837 edition which was subsequently lost in a fire in 1879. There was also a London reprint of the play published circa 1873 which Eckel tells us exists in only three known copies the same number being verified by OCLC. Given all this the present Boston imprint is the first obtainable edition of this work. Our copy was handsomely bound by the celebrated Riviere firm established by Robert Riviere in Bath in 1829. He later set up shop as in London in 1840; in 1881 he took his grandson Percival Calkin into partnership at which time the firm became known as Riviere & Son. The bindery continued to do business until 1939 when it was acquired by George Bayntun of Bath. Rivere's work has consistently been of the highest standard throughout its long years of operation and the present volume is no exception. James R. Osgood and Company unknown
1877ST20685-9Boston: James R. Osgood and Company 1877. First American Edition. 123 x 85 mm. 4 3/4 x 3 1/4". 96 pp. 2 leaves ads. <br/> Appealing forest green morocco covers with French fillet borders raised bands spines gilt in delicately tooled compartments with scrolling centerpiece within a lozenge of small tools volute cornerpieces gilt titling turn-ins densely gilt with floral rolls and plain and decorative rules purple endpapers all edges gilt original extremely well-preserved gilt cloth wrappers bound in at rear. Eckel pp. 164-65; Podeschi B-215. A very fine and very pretty copy with only quite trivial imperfections.<br/> <br/> This is a very attractively bound copy of the first trade first American and first obtainable edition of a play on which Dickens collaborated as editor and in which he appeared as a player during performance. "Mr. Nightingale's Diary" was written for performance by the Company of Strolling Players an acting troupe organized by Dickens to support the Guild of Literature and Art which provided financial aid and housing to struggling writers and artists. Dickens had initially intended to write the farce independently but due to time constraints passed the project over to his friend and the editor of "Punch" magazine Mark Lemon. However Dickens revised the play during the production process so thoroughly that he is considered a full co-writer; Eckel says that it "was as much Dickens' as it was Lemon's." The play was performed at Devonshire House in May of 1851 with a cast including Dickens and Lemon as well as sensation novelist Wilkie Collins. The first edition of this work was privately printed for Dickens but that printing is quite rare: Eckel writes that he was able to trace only three copies. The present Boston reprint was made from an original pamphlet said to have been lost in the same 1879 fire as the last original copy of "Is She His Wife" another Dickens play. Our copy is a particularly fine one; the unsigned but handsomely decorated binding is very probably by the Riviere bindery since it exactly matches a copy of "Is She His Wife" currently in our inventory in a signed Riviere binding. James R. Osgood and Company unknown
183930547Chapman and Hall 1839. Believed First Edition. Hardcover. Good. This is a slightly unusual format in that the text has been rebound into two hardback volumes to accomodate the ninteeen front and rear covers of the original magazines which have been bound into the rear of both volumes along with some of the adverts. This has neccessitated the whole being bound in two volumes which are backed in light brown leather. Both volumes have recently had the boards professionally re attached using the original boards and decorative spines the spines have been replaced on top of the spinal repair the boards are in good order but the spines somewhat rubbed and worn. The title page in volume one is dated 1839 which indicates first edition in book form so it is unclear if the text is taken from the magazines or is a first in book form. The magazines are undated and are in nineteen parts part nineteen also includes part twenty all priced at one shilling apart from the last part which was two shillings for the double edition. All 39 plates and the frontespiece are presentsome of the plates are quite mottled. The text itself is quite clean there do not appear to be any loose pages. This is a heavy item and would require additional postage and insurance outside the UK. We would be happy to supply any further information pictures etc on request please do not hesitate to conatact us. Chapman and Hall hardcover
18485168London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. First edition. Fine. Very early issue with all but 5 of Smith's 'internal flaws.' Finely bound full red morocco with a portrait of Dickens on the front cover and his signatures on the rear in gilt binding unsigned but seems to be Bayntun. Gilt titles and decorative spine compartments on the spine all edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Bound without half title else complete with vignette title eight-line errata and all 40 engraved plates including the first example of a "dark plate" facing page 547. A handsome copy in a lovely binding. Housed in a custom slipcase. <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. <br /> <br /> Smith 8. Fine. Bradbury and Evans unknown
1837ECKeDICK72London: Chapman And Hall 1837. 1837. 8vo. pp. xiv 2directions to binder & errata 609. with half-title. 43 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne Robert Seymour & Robert William Buss incl. frontis. & additional title. 19th century full dark blue calf gilt back joints cracked spine ends worn some foxing to plates some quite so. armorial bookplate of Lieut.-General Sir Thomas Molyneux with his gilt crest at foot of spine. ownership entry of American screenwriter Frances Marion. First Edition bound from the original parts. Signboard on etched title with earlier Veller reading and with two original suppressed Buss plates 8 & 9 the last 16 plates without etched plate numbers or captions. Smith I 3. Ray The Illustrator And The Book In England From 1790 To 1914 125. Sadleir 698. NCBEL III 788. 1st Edition. Hardcover. London: Chapman And Hall, 1837. Hardcover
184421257London: Chapman and Hall 1844. First edition first issue with "100Å" on the signpost in the engraved frontispiece. With frontispiece and 39 engravings after illustrations by 'Phiz'. 8vo handsomely bound in fine 3/4 antique morocco over cloth boards the spines with raised bands gilt ruled lettered in gilt in two compartments bordered in blind a.e.g. fine marbled endleaves. xiv errata 624. A very handsome and appealing copy in an unusually fine state of preservation. A few plates with the typical aging but a copy generally free of the inevitable toning associated with the engravings in copies of Dickens’ first edition novels. FINE AND SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Some critics have stated that this novel is Dickens at his best with the character Pecksniff being one of Dicken's most brilliant contributions to English literature. Critics generally agree that while MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT is somewhat roughly put together in its artistic structure it more than makes up for it in its brilliant character development and descriptive prose that reveal Dickens’ talents at their finest. “In the book he displays the fulness of his preservative power the ripeness of his humour the richest flow of his satiric vivacity and the culmination of his melodramatic vigour.†Some declare that the character of Pecksniff to be one of Dickens' most brilliant contributions to English literature; Gissing calls him and Mrs. Gamp “masterpieces of genius in its happiest mood.†Chapman and Hall hardcover
