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185382586London: Bradbury & Evans 1853. Fine. Bradbury & Evans London 1853 13.50 x 21.50 cm relié First edition illustrated with an engraved title with vignette 39 plates by H. K. Browne including 10 mezzotints including the frontispiece. All the drawings were executed according to very precise recommendations by Dickens the mezzotint engravings expressing despair and the dark sides of the novel while the caricatural figures express joy and humor. As with all of Dickens's works this novel first appeared in serial form March 1852 to September 1853. First printing points: ""elgble"" p19 line 6; ""chair"" p209 line 23; ""counsinship"" p275 line 22 English binding in half burgundy shagreen with small corners. Spine with false raised bands richly decorated. Brown shagreen title label. Traces of rubbing to joints headcaps bands corners and edges. Boards also rubbed. While the text paper is rather clean despite yellowing of some margins near the figures that of the engravings constantly shows browning sometimes heavy mainly in the margins an almost systematic case in Dickens editions due to the use of more acidic paper for the engravings. A few small stains or foxing in the text. Good copy well bound a rare case for these popular editions. The ninth novel published by Dickens and the first of the great panoramic novels depicting society Bleak House came to life in France in 1858 under the title: La maison d'âpre-vent. A profound originality at the time the novel uses two narrators one in the third person the other in the first. The opposition of the two narrations stigmatizes the relationship of the individual to the functioning of society. Many critics see it as one of the author's finest creations. Bookplate of Syan Siennen. Bradbury & Evans hardcover
1959031927UK: Chapman and Hall 1959. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Three-Quarter Leather. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. H K Browne. 1st Edition 1st Issue 1859. Eckel pp. 86-90; Podeschi A143; Smith I pp. 96-98. First issue copy with p. 213 misnumbered 113 misspelling 'affetcionately' to line 12 p. 134. Chapman and Hall 1859 etched frontispiece additional title and 14 further plates by H. K. Browne. LACKING PAGE DETAILING THE LIST OF PLATES WITHIN THE BOOK. ALL PLATES ARE PRESENT. A few light marks modern black half morocco. Illustrated by H K Browne. Book is fine and very bright. Contents good with quite clean bright pages. Plates a little age toned. Ref19396 <br/> <br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover
185099845London: 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 morocco over marbled boards gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments raised bands red morocco spine labels. With frontispiece engraved title-page and 38 plates inserted throughout. Plates by H.K. Browne. In near fine 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
186803030GEORGE SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION in Atlantic Monthly for January February & March 1868 first edition some chipping to the spine extremities of one volume else a vg set in wraps last auctioned as a set in 1986! This group of three individual issues also contains OUR SECOND GIRL by Harriet Beecher Stowe HAWTHORNE IN THE BOSTON CUSTOM-HOUSE by Nathaniel Hawthorne MRS. JOHNSON by W. Dean Howells ASPECTS OF CULTURE by Ralph Waldo Emerson THE ROMANCE OF CERTAIN OLD CLOTHES by Henry James et.al. Rare in this original format. Housed in a fine custom tray case. Atlantic Monthly paperback
1855240424<p>London: Bradbury And Evans 1855 - 1857. First edition. Sewn wrappers. Octavo; xiv 625 pages; very fresh with intact spines wrappers text and plates in a vintage half morocco Solander case by the Morrell Bindery <br /><br />IN MONTHLY PARTS. 20 parts in 19 monthly issues; States: pt.1 rear ads has a duplicate folio of 3 "The National Review" but lacks 6 the 16 pp. "John Cassell's Works and Publications"; pt.2 rear ads lacks 5 "The Eclectic Review" ff.; pt.3 Advertiser ads lacks leaf 3/4 & 9/10; pt.11 rear ads lacks 2 "British College of Health" and has 1 followed by 3 which is a variant gathering with pages devoted to "Baron Sonville's Axtra Mankaz" for constipation preceding "John Cassell's Coffee"; pt.12 lacks slip for "The English Cyclopedia" at rear; pt.13 Advertiser lacks leaf 1/2 pp. 5-8 vary w. ad for "General Guide to the Crystal Palace and Park" and lacks the 12pp. List of Publications for 1857 of Bradbury & Evans; at rear the London Stereoscopic Company catalogue ends a p.18 not 24 lacks 3 "Publications of the London Printing & Publishing Co."; pt.15 rear ads 2 the "Curiosities of History" has 2pp. not 4; has the error of "Rigaud" for "Blandois" pp. 469-73. This volume matches the first state points: B2 instead of BB2 on page 371 and Rigaud for Blandois on pages 469 number of p. 573 corrected. Smith 12; Gimbel A141. 40 plates by H.K. Browne.</p> Bradbury And Evans
183787474Chapman and Hall | London 1837 | 13.50 x 21.30 cm | relié
1855814P1London: Bradbury & Evans 1855-57. First edition. Paperback. Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Hablot Knight Browne; Phiz. The original twenty parts in nineteen of the influential Dickens novel 'Little Dorrit' uncommon to see in the original parts like this with all the original plates present including the dark plates. Complete as twenty parts bound in nineteen as issued with parts XIX/XX being published as a double-decker.First edition first issue of the text with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" in Part XV to pages 469-473.In a custom cloth box in a very good indeed condition.Collated all front advertisements slips and errata and present.Complete with two plates to each part besides part XXIX/XX which as a double-decker volume has four plates. Including the engraved title page bound in to Part XIX/XX.Dark plates present to Parts I II III IV VII VIII and XIX/XX.Collated; the extra 'Winter Season advert' to Part I is lacking; in Part X the first and second adverts are torn with significant loss; in part XI 'Cassell's Illustrated Almanack' is only six pages rather than the eight pages called for; and in Part XIII lacking the slip 'New Serial Work.Ask Mama'.'Little Dorrit' follows Amy Dorrit who was born and raised in the Marshalsea debtors prison. It was originally published in monthly instalments over nineteen months and this is the first edition published in a complete book.Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne most often known by his penname 'Phiz'. As Phiz he illustrated many of Dickens' novels including 'David Copperfield' 'Dombey and Son' and 'Bleak House' as well as illustrating for 'Punch' throughout his life. In the original publisher's paper wraps in a custom cloth box. Externally generally smart with some discoloration to the wraps. Light edge wear to the wraps heavier to the backstrip where edge wear has resulted in loss. Both wraps to Part I are detached but present. A few light handling marks to the wraps. Front wrap of Part VI is detached but present. Wraps of Part VII are lifting a little to the tail. Wraps of Part VIII are detached but present with large closed tears to the front wrap and a few smaller closed tears to the following leaves of adverts. Part IV has been rebacked with white paper to the spine. Circulating library sticker to the front wrap of Part XVI. Prior owner's ink inscription to the head of the wraps. Internally firmly bound. Pages are a little age-toned and clean with the occasional spot including some spots to the plates. Faint tide mark to the dark plate of Part II. Cloth box with a few light marks in a very good indeed condition. Good Bradbury & Evans paperback
1850839F33London: Bradbury & Evans 1850. First edition. Leather. Good. 5" by 6". Phiz Hablot Knight Browne. A smart first edition first issue of Charles Dickens's Victorian bildungsroman David Copperfield. Illustrated throughout by Phiz. The first edition first issue. Bound from the parts with small stab holes to the gutters.With first issue points including six lines of errata. With the following first issue points identified by Eckel: dark plate facing page 482; Chapter XXVII is at page 282 rather than 283 as listed to the contents and the final 'i' to page viii is misaligned; misspelling of 'coroboration' to page 387 six lines from the bottom.; 'screamed' is not corrected to 'screwed' at page 132 line 20.Illustrated with an engraved title page and frontispiece alongside a further thirty-eight plates. Collated complete.Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne known by his pen name "Phiz" an English illustrator who contributed his work to ten of Charles Dickens' books including 'Bleak House' and 'Dombey and Son'.Bound without half title.A somewhat autobiographical novel Dickens's celebrated bildungsroman follows the eponymous character from infancy to maturity. Claimed by Dickens to be his own favourite amongst his works it marked a turning point in his oeuvre separating his novels of youth and those of maturity. Rebacked in a full morocco binding with original back strip laid down and boards restored. Fading to rear board with light rubbing to board perimeters. Area of discolouration to front board. Tail of front hinge starting with board holding firm. Hinges reinforced with tape with further tape reinforcement between pages 622 and 623. Internally firmly bound. Heavy discolouration and foxing to engraved title page and frontispiece with significant spotting to further plates. Pages generally bright. Good Bradbury & Evans hardcover
1881951P36London: Chapman and Hall Limited 1881-82. Cloth. Good. 11" by 8". Various. An impressive edition de luxe of the collected works of Charles Dickens an illustrated set limited to one thousand copies. Complete in thirty volumes.An edition de luxe of one thousand copies of which this is numbered nine hundred and seventy seven.A set of the complete works of Charles Dickens.Containing:Volumes I and II 'The Pickwick Papers'; Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece vignette title and twenty-tour plates; Volume II is illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates. Volumes III and IV 'Barnaby Rudge' and 'Hard Times'. Volume III is illustrated with a frontispiece seven plates and in-text illustrations; Volume IV is illustrated with a frontispiece eleven plates and in-text illustrations.Volume V 'Sketches by Boz' illustrated with two vignette title a frontispiece and thirty-eight plates. Volume VI 'Oliver Twist' illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-three plates. Facsimile of the original front wrap bound to the front.Volumes VII and VIII 'The Old Curiosity Shop and Reprinted Pieces'. Volume VII is illustrated with a frontispiece fifteen plates and in-text illustrations; Volume VIII is illustrated with a frontispiece five plates and in-text illustrations. Volumes IX and X 'David Copperfield'. Volume IX is illustrated with a frontispiece a vignette title and nineteen plates; Volume X is illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates. Facsimile of the original front wrap bound to the front of Volume IX.Volume XI 'A Tale of Two Cities' illustrated with a frontispiece vignette title and fourteen plates. Facsimile of the original front wrap bound to the front.Volume XII 'Great Expectations' illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen plates.Volumes XIII and XIV 'Little Dorrit'. Volume XIII is illustrated with a frontispiece vignette title and twenty plates; Volume XIV is illustrated with a frontispiece and seventeen plates. Facsimile of the original front wrap bound to the front of Volume XIII.Volumes XV and XVI 'Christmas Stories and The Uncommercial Traveller'. Volume XV is illustrated with a frontispiece and ten plates; Volume XVI is illustrated with a frontispiece and nine plates.Volumes XVII and XVIII 'Martin Chuzzlewit'. Volume XVII is illustrated with a frontispiece a vignette title and nineteen plates; Volume XVIII is illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates. Facsimile of the original front wrap bound to the front of Volume XVII.Volume XIX 'American Notes and Pictures from Italy' illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates.Volume XX 'Christmas Books' illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece a monochrome frontispiece three hand-coloured plates eight plates and in-text illustrations.Volume XXI 'A Child's History of England' illustrated with a frontispiece vignette title page and eighteen plates.Volumes XXII and XXIII 'Nicholas Nickleby'. Volume XXII is illustrated with a frontispiece and nineteen plates; Volume XXIII is illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates. Facsimile of the original front wrap bound to the front of Volume XXII. Volumes XXIV and XXV 'Dombey & Son'. Volume XXIV is illustrated with a frontispiece a vignette title and nineteen plates; Volume XXV is illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates. Facsimile of the original front wrap bound to the front of Volume XXIV.Volumes XXVI and XXVII 'Bleak House'. Volume XXVI is illustrated with a frontispiece a vignette title and nineteen plates; Volume XXVII is illustrated with a frontispiece and eighteen plates. Facsimile of the original front wrap bound to the front of Volume XXVI.Volumes XXVIII and XXIX ' Our Mutual Friend'. Volume XXVIII is illustrated with a frontispiece and nineteen plates; Volume XXIX is illustrated with a frontispiece and nineteen plates. Facsimile of the original front wrap bound to the front of Volume XXVIII.Volume XXX 'Master Humphrey's Clock Hunted Down A Holiday Romance; George Silverman's Explanation and The Mystery of Edwin Drood' illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen plates. Facsimile of the original front wrap for 'Edwin Drood'.Collated complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally generally smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities resulting in small tears to the spines and joints heavier to 'Pickwick Papers' Volume I. Spines are a little discoloured spine labels are age-toned. Light rubbing to the cloth heavier to 'Old Curiosity Shop' Volume II and 'Bleak House' Volume II. Marks to the front board of 'Great Expectations'. Mark to the spine of 'Oliver Twist' Volume I. Small amount of wear to the fore edge of the front board of 'Barnaby Rudge' Volume I. Mark to the front board of Volume XXV. Front hinge of 'Martin Chuzzlewit' Volume II is starting but firm as is the front hinge of Volumes X XI XIII XV XVI XIX XXVI XXVIII XXIX and XXX. Front hinge of Volume XXV is a little strained. Rear hinge of 'Old Curiosity Shop' Volume II is starting but firm. Internally generally firmly bound 'A Child's History of England' is tender between pages 168 and 169 and requires careful handling. Pages are bright and clean with a few scattered spots heavier to the endpapers. 'Pickwick Papers' a few pages are working loose. Good Chapman and Hall Limited hardcover
1848154186London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. In the primary cloth First edition bound from the original parts in the publisher's primary cloth binding. The novel 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. Following issue in parts from September 1846 to March 1848 Bradbury and Evans issued the novel in book form in the present cloth. In the 19th number of the part issue a slip advertised the novel ready for delivery on 12 April at £1 1s. in cloth or £1 4s. 6d in half morocco. The slip goes on to note "Subscribers desirous of having their copies bound in a similar style can have them done by Messrs. Chapman & Hall 186 Strand or through their Booksellers at the following prices:- Whole bound morocco gilt edges 6s. 6d. Half bound marble leaves 4s. 6d. In cloth lettered 1s. 6d". This copy represents an owner of the parts making use of these binding services with the characteristic stab-holes in the gutter where unstitched from the wrappers. At such a reduced price 1s. 6d compared to £1 1s for a new copy in cloth it is evident why an owner of a complete set in parts would prefer having them bound rather than purchasing a new book-form copy. For Dickens's novels the publisher kept a stock of first edition sheets and bound up copies and issued them over time as demand required. So too owners of the parts could make use of the binding services long after publication. Changes in the cloth design over time allow the binding to be dated and a primary binding to be identified. Smith noted this binding style as a variant but incorrectly identified a binding with a chain design as the primary - the chain design was in fact introduced by Chapman and Hall in the 1860s after they acquired remaining first edition sheets from Bradbury and Evans. Similar bindings with a chain design can be seen in Chapman and Hall's Dickens publications of the 1860s see Kremers p. 249. Kremers has subsequently identified this design which he dubs "marigold" as the primary binding. "Marigold" is unique to Dombey and Son. Copies of the novel were subsequently bound into the "lineal-globe" cloth in the 1850s with a central arabesque on the covers which is the primary binding of Bleak House 1853 and Little Dorrit 1857 and the "chain" cloth in the 1860s as stated above; these are secondary bindings. The primary "marigold" binding has two variants of blocking with ornamentation on the inner frame as here and without; the variant with ornamentation is presumed by Kremers to be the earlier. The spine lettering also has two variants indiscriminate with the blocking variants the base lettered either "London 1848" or "London" only as here; the absence of the date is presumed by Kremers to be secondary state. Demy octavo. Frontispiece vignette title and 38 plates by Hablot Knight Browne Phiz; plate 35 being the first published example of a "dark plate". Original green diaper cloth Kremers' "marigold" primary spine lettered in gilt spine and covers with elaborate design in blind cream endpapers. Expertly recased with neat repair at spine ends and joints spine and extremities a little sunned slight stain to front cover and ring stain to rear some foxing as usual plates browned and stained at foot. A very good copy. Smith I 8. Lars Kremers "A Comparative Bibliography of the Sheets and Publishers' Cloth Cases of the Demy Octavo Works of Charles Dickens 1837-1872" 2013 pp. 210-211. hardcover
1845188336London: Bradbury & Evans 1846 1845. The rare first state First edition with the first state of the advertisement leaf only seen by Smith in a small number of copies. The Cricket on the Hearth the third of Dickens's five Christmas books was published on 20 December 1845 with a title page post-dated to 1846. It proved enormously popular doubling the circulation of its predecessors. Octavo. Engraved frontispiece and title page illustrations in text; leaf of advertisements at end. Original red vertically ribbed cloth boards blocked in blind spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt yellow coated endpapers edges gilt. Old pencilled price on rear pastedown. Recased a little marking to cloth spine ends and tips bumped light scuffing to engraved title page contents otherwise bright: a very good copy indeed. Eckel pp. 119-120; Smith II 6 see pp. 40-1 for the two states of the advertisement leaf. hardcover
1839166960Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1839. Nickleby in America First US edition in book form in the original quarter cloth binding and scarce thus. The novel was first serialized in the US in parts from May 1838 to November 1839. On 15 November 1839 it was published in book form in two simultaneous formats: in full cloth with 39 plates and as a cheaper option the present quarter cloth with two plates. To his irritation Dickens received no payment for the publication which was not subject to any copyright protection in the US. Octavo. With 2 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne Phiz re-engraved by Joseph Yeager. At rear is 2 pp. advertisement "Lea and Blanchard. Have Just Published a Poetical Annual For 1840" variant to the 12 pp. catalogue Smith calls for. Original blue quarter cloth other variants in grey or brown cloth no priority neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down drab boards. Housed in blue quarter cloth box. Recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box. Sides a little rubbed inner hinges neatly reinforced contents clean. A very good copy. Gimbel A43; Smith First American Editions pp. 121-3. hardcover
1897WN35526London: Chapman & Hall 1897. Original red calf gilt with 5 bands surrounding dark and light brown morocco titling labels and fleurons. TEG other edges untrimmed. Introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. Illustrations by the usual Dickens artists. The set makes an an impressive shelf array. Gadshill Edition. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Chapman & Hall Hardcover books
186444650.1London: Chapman & Hall 1864. 1st edition Hatton & Cleaver pp. 345 - 370. Original green printed wrappers. Housed in a custom chemise and deep green full morocco pull-apart case with elaborate gilt decoration to spine. Age-toning. 1st two parts as well as the final show some wear & edge chipping. Part 12 with largish chip to top of front wrapper affected "April". Part 15 lacking tip of front wrapper lower corner. Part 18 with tear to rear wrapper fore-edge. Overall condition of Parts: VG - VG. Case: Some minor wear with interior lip showing some chafing at top corners from removal of top portion's tight fit. Overall VG. 20 parts in 19. Some advert variances /- from that found listed in Hatton & Cleaver; specific collation supplied on request. Illustrated with 40 plates by Marcus Stone. 8vo. 8-3/4" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall unknown books
0035109London: Psychedelic Press 2012-2023. First Edition. Softcover Paperback. Fine Condition. 23cm x 15cm. 40 volumess. Illustrated wrappers. A complete run of the psychedelic studies journal Psychedelic Press early issues also titled psypressUK and billed as an Anthology of Pharmacography. Comprising 40 issues published between 2012 and 2023 edited by Robert Dickins and Nikki Wyrd together containing hundreds of papers on the history literature philosophy and culture of psychoactive plants and substances. Features contributions by Andy Roberts David Graham Scott Reverend Nemu Martin W. Ball Nikita Petrov Are Thoresen David Nickels Mike Crowley Ben Sessa Havelock Ellis Julian Vayne LiZ Elliot Mike Jay Roger Keen Henrik Dahl Thomas Hatsis James W. Jesso Ross Heaven Peter Sjostedt-H Stanislav Grof Graham St John James Oroc Rick Strassman and many others. Category: Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia; Inventory No: 0035109. BZDB407 Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia; Unbranded Robert Dickens; Nikki Wyrd Psychedelic Press Complete Set 40 Volumes Psychedelic Press paperback
199434093PABEL/MOEWIG VERLAGSUNION 1994. 1. hardcover. Skatolo! PABEL/MOEWIG VERLAGSUNION hardcover
18378060London Chapman & Hall 1837 1837 Half-Leather. No Jacket. First Edition. HB NODJ ISSUED measures approx 5 1/2 X 8 1/4 inches in Original Green Slate Cloth boards with tooled Black Leather corners & Spine NF/VG- AS-IS NODJ engraved title page has " Tony Weller" on the signboard above the inn doorGold gilt decorations & lettering spine 1837 on half title & title page 1st book edition 2nd Issue with S. Veller on page 342 line 5 has his friends page 400 line 21 page 260 line 29 reads holding with F in of imperfect in Healine on Page 432 has notation on bottom pg.9 Cover some rub wear Scuff tiny Chips primarily Extremities edges Interior nice tight with much FoXing thruout & some Wear few pencil mrks 609 pages edges pages Gold Gilt Possible repair Cover & Spine. First Edition. Half-Leather. London Chapman & Hall, 1837 hardcover
1845008498London: Chapman and Hall 1845. First edition. Hardcover. Richard Doyle John Leech Daniel Maclise Clarkson Stanfield. This is a handsome copy of the first edition first state of the second Dickens Christmas book unrestored in the publishers original illustrated red cloth. <br /> <br />Condition is very good. The elaborately gilt and blind stamped red cloth is square and tight. Color is noteworthy the covers bright the spine only slightly dulled. Soiling is quite light. Shelf wear manifests primarily at the gently bruised corners wrinkled spine ends a slightly frayed spine heel and the joints which show a few tiny abrasion holes. Overall presentation is nonetheless quite good and binding integrity uncompromised. The contents are notably clean. The only previous ownership mark found is a tiny gilt and black printed booksellers ticket HALE & ROWORTH Stationers Bookbinders & c. of MANCHESTER - affixed to the upper front pastedown. The gilt edges remain bright. We find no appreciable spotting. First state is confirmed by CHAPMAN & HALL printed within the bottom edge of the vignette title page illustration above the names of the artist and engraver rather than below. The binding is protected beneath a clear removable mylar cover. <br /> <br />Although the title page of The Chimes is postdated 1845 publication was on 16 December 1844. <br /> <br />Charles John Huffam Dickens 1812-1870 was an English writer and social critic widely viewed as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. In October 1843 he had the sudden inspiration of writing a Christmas story intended to open its readers' hearts towards those struggling to survive on the lower rungs of the economic ladder and to encourage practical benevolence but also to warn of the terrible danger to society created by the toleration of widespread ignorance and actual want among the poor. The result written at white heat was A Christmas Carol: in Prose published by Chapman and Hall on 19 December as a handsomely bound little volume which met with marked success. The first edition sold out by Christmas Eve. By 1844 the novella had gone through 13 printings. Myriad editions as well as stage and screen adaptations continue to accumulate with no apparent slackening of pace or interest over time. <br /> <br />Christmas Carol was only the first and foremost of several Christmas-themed stories. Dickens eventually produced five Christmas books. The Carols more overtly political successor The Chimes followed in December 1844 The Cricket on the Hearth in December 1845 and The Battle of Life in December 1846. Dickenss fifth and final Christmas Book The Haunted Man was published in December 1848. <br /> <br />The Christmas books particularly The Chimes The Cricket and the Carol were the centerpiece of Dickens public reading tours in the 1850s and 60s. In The Chimes the story centers around Trotty Veck a poor ticket porter whose outlook is converted from despair to hope by the spirits of the chimes on New Year's Eve. <br /> <br />Reference: Smith II 5; ODNB <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover
19354698New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1935. 4to. Superbly bound by Albert Oldach accomplished American bookbinder who took over his father's bindery Frederick J. M. Oldach and Company in the early 1900's a successful bindery in Philadelphia that bound editions of Whitman and other notable authors in 19th Century. Exquisite full crushed dark blue morocco with bold gilt design and patterning on both covers and spine five raised bands gilt panels. Especially of note are the wonderful full morocco doublures much more elaborately tooled and than the covers and each with a central inlaid maroon morocco face large groupings of vine and blossoms including a central tree design and the front doublure with gilt Presentation: "George N. J. Sommer/ 1936." Sommer was a prominent surgeon. AEG. Beautiful maroon silk mauve endsheets. Book and binding are perfectly fine. <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover books
1853145511853. in the primary cloth binding With Illustrations by Hablot. K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans 1853. Original blind-stamped olive green cloth all page edges gilt.<br/><br/> First Edition in book form following issuance in 20-in-19 monthly parts of Dickens's famous novel that attacks Chancery the London legal system. Included are forty plates by "Phiz" of which ten are "dark plates" made possible by a new procedure. This copy is still in the original cloth binding -- the primary one with blind-stamping that includes 16 little beads around each cover's outer margin. An ad in the final serial part urged customers to either a buy the book in this binding for one guinea £1/1s/0d or b take their serial parts to "their Booksellers" to arrange for the parts to be bound up in this binding for 1s/6d. This copy -- bound without the half-title and of course without all the ads -- is from the latter option as one can see the parts' stab-holes; the owner of these parts paid extra though to have gilding added to the page edges. Condition is good-to-very good -- actually near-fine except for the rear joint where there is wear along the rear joint and a little at the spine ends though no cloth is missing and nothing new other than glue has been added. The pale-yellow endpapers are original though substantially cracked at the gutter again glued in place so all is tight. Lastly all forty plates are present but as is often the case they are browned at the outer margin and some have moderate foxing; as always the spine is sunned to a honey brown -- unavoidable with olive green cloth. These hefty octavo Dickens volumes this one is 624 pages not including the plates were much too heavy for their delicate cloth and endpapers -- which is why the vast majority of copies have been rebound; in our experience BLEAK HOUSE is considerably more difficult to find in original cloth than in serial parts. With Inspector Bucket investigating BLEAK HOUSE is a Haycraft-Queen "Cornerstone" of Detective Crime & Mystery Fiction; the book first appeared on the screen as a silent film in 1920 and more recently 2005 as a British TV mini-series. Smith I pp 79-84. unknown books
1848WRCLIT82006London: Bradbury & Evans 1848. xvi624pp. Original medium green cloth stamped in blind lettered in gilt the secondary binding. Frontis vignette title and 38 engraved plates by H.K. Browne "Phiz". Ink name on free endsheet spine a bit sunned and rubbed a few trivial nicks at crown of spine but a very good copy internally fresh and clean. First edition with the eight-line errata but with the later form of the vignette title with the imprint of Chapman & Hall representing sheets passed from Bradbury & Evans to Chapman & Hall ca. 1861. The substantial majority of the textual errors far exceeding those mentioned in the errata are uncorrected. This work includes the first example of the "dark plate" process facing page 547. SMITH 8. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
122700London: Chapman and Hall n.d. Finely bound example of two of Dickens' best-known works with a fore-edge painting. Octavo bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands marbled endpapers illustrated by Cruikshank and Browne all edges gilt with a fore-edge painting by Martin Frost displaying four scenes from Oliver Twist. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. "Dickens turned in Oliver Twist to the novel of crime and terror Some characters are drawn with humorous realism but for the most part humor is dimmed by gloomy memories of the author's own neglected childhood and sensational scenes are shrouded in an atmosphere genuinely eerie and sinister That Dickens shared with his contemporaries the conviction that the novel should be an instrument of social reform is evident in Oliver Twist" Baugh. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
186520795London: Chapman and Hall 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green wrappers housed in very good maroon leatherette chemise and slipcase backstrip lettered in gilt. Stone Marcus. 626 pages in text. 22 x 13.5 cm. First edition in the original 20 issues in 19 parts with 40 inserted plates by Marcus Stone. The title to the book was selected four years before the issue but Dickens' effort to keep "All The Year Round" afloat and his illnesses compelled him to write at a diminished speed.Thirty thousand copies were sold of the first number see: ECKEL p.94. With page "31" misprint instead of "13" in number ten and Our Mutual Advertiser in each issue. Lacking the scarce 4-page inset of "The Economic Life Assurance Society" in no. 14 but retaining the "Foreign Bank Notes" slip in nos. 19/20. HATTON & CLEAVER pp. 345-370. A few numbers with corner tears and creases twelve issue have their backstrips restored the plates generally clean practically all with the original tissue guards. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1850117844London: 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
184641524London 1846. Matted & housed in a handsome gilt-edged wooden frame. Nr Fine condition in a frame showing little wear. Engraving: 13-1/8" x 9". Frame: 28-1/4" x 22-1/2" <br/><br/>Engraved by D. J. Pound after a photograph by Mayall. A handsome piece destined to grace a study wall. unknown books
