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194040137London: Chapman and Hall for the Dickens Fellowship 1940. 37 vols. Red cloth with original wrappers bound in at end; the last 7 issues still in the original wrappers & housed in broken chemise. Generally very fine. 37 vols. Gimbel H575-H578; Graham English Literary Periodicals p. 308 Chapman and Hall for the Dickens Fellowship unknown
125268Easton Press. Leather. Like New. Easton Press Complete Works of Charles Dickens 21 volume set in as new unread condition but not in shrink wrap. oversized and overweight. Will ship in 2 boxes. Please email for photos. Easton Press hardcover
183816547London: Richard Bentley 1838. Full leather. Near Fine. George Cruikshank. The 1838 true 1st edition with no border to "The Last Song" in a sumptuous light-blue full-leather binding. 5 raised bands highly-decorative gilt-ornamented compartments along the spine. Clean tight and Near Fine and internally bordering on immaculate with no writing or markings of any kind. 12mos all edges gilt full-page illustrations thruout by the great George Cruikshank. Also includes a handsome custom-made blue-cloth slipcase housing the set. Richard Bentley unknown
1865176971London: Chapman and Hall 1865. 1st Edition. Leather. 320p; 309p. FINE LEATHER BINDING BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE. A hardcover book bound in full red leather with ornate gilt decorations on the spine which has five raised bands. Portrait of Dickens on front board and facsimile signature on back both stamped in gilt. Features marbled endpapers gilt foredges and gilt dentelles. Original teal paper cover bound in back with the chipped-off bottom corner restored. The back board is slightly warped. Foxing on and around the plates. Otherwise text unmarked and binding secure. The leather is in beautiful condition unmarred by soiling or chafing. The first edition two volumes in one. Illustrated with black and white plates by Marcus Stone. Contains the bookplate of Christopher Clark Geest. Chapman and Hall unknown
1850008500London: Bradbury & Evans 1850. First edition. Full leather. H. K. Browne "Phiz". This is a finely bound first edition of one of the greatest novels of the greatest Victorian novelist. <br /> <br />The magnificent fine binding by Bayntun is full polished tan calf. The covers feature triple gilt rule borders with corner devices. The spine features raised gilt-decorated bands and dark red calf labels title in the second compartment author in the fourth compartment and a narrow label at the spine heel dated 1850" - each label gilt rule bracketed and tooled. Each unlabeled spine compartment features a uniform central gilt design framed by extensive gilt bracketing and tooling. The spine ends and cover edges are gilt-hatched as are the cover edges at the corners. The contents are bound with brown and tan silk head and tail bands twin brown satin ribbon markers all edges gilt and marbled endpapers framed by gilt dentelle turn-ins. BAYNTUN. BINDER. BATH. ENG. is stamped on the upper left corner of the front free endpaper verso. George Bayntun founded his bindery in 1894. In 1939 the year the Second World War began Bayntun acquired the Rivière Bindery. The Bindery has been in residence on Manvers Street in Bath ever since. <br /> <br />The first edition contents are collated complete. H. K. Browne Phiz prepared 40 illustrations for this novel including the frontispiece and vignette title page. The sole dark plate created for this novel The River at p.482 is present as are all of the many small misprints Internal flaws per Smith I 9. pp.76-78 with one exception; screwed in lieu of screamed at p.132 line 20. <br /> <br />Condition is very good overall. The calf binding is clean unfaded and sound square and tight. Shelf presentation is excellent. The vintage calf binding inevitably shows some shelf wear to extremities and joints but only trivial scuffs and blemishes to the boards and spines. The contents are well suited to the fine binding quite respectable with only mild age toning no previous ownership marks and only mild spotting primarily confined to the plates. <br /> <br />English writer and social critic Charles John Huffam Dickens 1812-1870 is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. David Copperfield published at the height of Dickens celebrity was considered to be largely autobiographical. <br /> <br />It is Dickens's first first-person novel David as narrator calls it 'my written memory' and in it he draws much more directly than hitherto on events and people from his own personal life in 'a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction'. The misery of the blacking factory days his notes for writing the number describing little David labouring in Murdstone and Grinby's bottling factory contain the poignant phrase 'What I know so well' the details of his career as a young journalist and the raptures of his love for Maria Beadnell are all presented with only the lightest fictional disguise. In depicting the Micawbers and their recurrent crises Dickens draws on the personalities and former financial problems of his parents. Although the novel's initial sales were rather lower than those of Dombey Copperfield received considerable critical acclaim and before long was widely held to be his greatest work. Undoubtedly it became for very many readers then as now his best-loved novel an opinion in which Dickens himself coincided. In an 1867 preface Dickens called David Copperfield a favourite child and wrote of it Of all my books I like this the best. <br /> <br />As was custom with many Dickens novels the publisher Bradbury & Evans originally serialized David Copperfield in 20 numbers bound in 19 parts between May 1849 and November 1850 before this publication as a book on 14 November 1850. <br /> <br />Reference: Smith I 9; ODNB <br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans hardcover
003936Easton Press. Hardcover. Near Fine. Complete in 21 volumes a set of Easton Press black label Charles Dickens. All are in very good to near fine condition with no attached bookplates. American Notes and Christmas Stories have one or more bald spots on the upper page ends. This set is not in mint condition so do not buy it with the expectation that it is. All of the books are in very good or better condition. Postage for this set will be $50.00 media mail only. Will ship priority if asked but buyer will be responsible for added cost. <br/> <br/> Easton Press hardcover
183816547London: Richard Bentley 1838. Full leather. Near Fine. George Cruikshank. The 1838 true 1st edition with no border to "The Last Song" in a sumptuous light-blue full-leather binding. 5 raised bands highly-decorative gilt-ornamented compartments along the spine. Clean tight and Near Fine and internally bordering on immaculate with no writing or markings of any kind. 12mos all edges gilt full-page illustrations thruout by the great George Cruikshank. Also includes a handsome custom-made blue-cloth slipcase housing the set. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley hardcover books
1864L1190<p>20 parts in 19 as issued. First issue of part 1 without the printer's imprint on front wrapper wood engraved frontispiece and 39 plates after Marcus Stone by Dalziel and W.T. Green part 1 lacks Thorley's 4 pages of ads part 6 lacks Armadale slip and Norton's Pills 4 pages of ads part 7 with Thorley's Farmer's Almanack duplicated at front of ads part 14 lacks Mappin Webb & Co. 4 pages of ads. part 18 lacks Norton's Pills and Liverpool & London & Globe ads but with 8 pages Chapman & Hall ads not called for part 19/20 with additional 2 ads for John F. Dunn's City Book Mark each 2 pages inserted at front and back all other slips and advertisements as called for Octavo 8 3/4" x 5 1/4" bound in original green wrappers. House in two red enclosures with gilt letter to spine and marbled end boards. Hatton & Cleaver pp.343-370 First edition.</p><p><em>Our Mutual Friend</em> written in 1864–1865 is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works combining savage satire with social analysis. It centers on in the words of critic J Hillis Miller quoting from the character Bella Wilfer in the book "money money money and what money can make of life". Most reviewers in the 1860s continued to praise Dickens' skill as a writer in general but did not review this novel in detail. Some found the plot both too complex and not well laid out. <em>The Times</em> of London found the first few chapters did not draw the reader into the characters. In the 20th century however reviewers began to find much to approve in the later novels of Dickens including <em>Our Mutual Friend. </em>In the late 20th and early 21st centuries some reviewers suggested that Dickens was in fact experimenting with structure and that the characters considered somewhat flat and not recognized by the contemporary reviewers were meant rather to be true representations of the Victorian working class and the key to understanding the structure of the society depicted by Dickens in the novel.</p><p><strong>Condition: </strong></p><p>Part 13 with light damp-staining to plates occasional spotting but generally clean internally original printed blue wrappers some occasional light repair or retouching to spines part 1 upper cover rather creased and soiled with some chipping to head an foot part 6 with hole to lower wrapper part 19/20 a little soiled with some chipping still a very good set generally preserved in two custom red calf drop-front boxes</p> Chapman and Hall paperback
1848100525Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz jun 1848. First Tauchnitz editions. Christmas Carol with handcolored lithographed frontsipiece of Marley's Ghost and Scrooge after John Leech each work with its half-title. Together 5 works in one volume vols. 8vo. Nineteenth-century purple cloth gilt; spine faded. A bit of scattered foxing. First Tauchnitz editions. Christmas Carol with handcolored lithographed frontsipiece of Marley's Ghost and Scrooge after John Leech each work with its half-title. Together 5 works in one volume vols. 8vo. Tauchnitz Editions of Dickens' Christmas Books. A brilliant Sammelband of the first Tauchnitz editions of Dickens's Christmas books each set from advance proofs and issued essentially simultaneously with the first London editions. Todd & Bowden Tauchnitz A1Ab A3a A5a A6 A9a Bernh. Tauchnitz, jun unknown books
1859268799London: Chapman and Hall 1859. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrated by H.K. Browne 8vo newly re-bound in full red morocco. London: Chapman & Hall 1859. First Edition.<br/><br/> The title page & frontispiece are heavily foxed; some other plates are lightly foxed but otherwise a clean copy. Second issue without typographic misprints on pp. 134 & 213; "b" signature on list of plates.<br/><br/> Chapman and Hall unknown books
185768171In the Original Monthly Parts DICKENS Charles. Little Dorrit. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First edition in original monthly parts: twenty numbers bound in nineteen as issued in the original blue printed wrappers. With forty inserted plates. First state text in XV with "Rigaud" for "Blandois." Original wrappers with the usual minor chipping and occasional splitting along spines. Some discreet repairs a few stains and tears to wrappers light edge-wear some light foxing to plates. Still a bright very nice copy. Front wrapper of part I with a 3-inch closed tear. Chemised and housed in a half green morocco pull-off case spine faded to brown. In the back of part XVI lacking the correction slip and the "32 Fleet St." four-page slip on green paper; otherwise all parts collates complete with all wrappers correct all"Advertisers" and all back ads. In the back ad of part XI all ads are present but bound in a different order than as stated in Hatton & Cleaver. Part XVIII complete with all text pages but they are bound in incorrect order. Part VII with tearing to lower outer corner of front ads pg 3-6 minimally affecting text. Part XIII with a corner torn on the ad slip for "Household Words" not affecting text. Hatton and Cleaver 305-333. Smith Dickens I 12. HBS 68171. $2000 Bradbury and Evans unknown books
184099753London: Chapman and Hall 1840. First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo 3 volumes original blindstamped pictorial cloth gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel marbled endpapers all edges marbled engraved frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. In near fine condition. An exceptional example. Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly serial that contained both short stories and two novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Some of the short stories act as frame stories to the novels so the ordering of publication is important. Although Dickens' original artistic intent was to keep the short stories and the novels together he himself cancelled Master Humphrey's Clock before 1848 and described in a preface to The Old Curiosity Shop that he wished the story to not be tied down to the miscellany it began within. Most later anthologies published the short stories and the novels separately. However the short stories and the novels were published in 1840 in three bound volumes under the title Master Humphrey's Clock which retains the full and correct ordering of texts as they originally appeared. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1854140940189London: Chapman and Hall 1854. First Edition. Very Good. 1854-1855. Twenty issues bound into 19 parts as issued. In publisher's green wraps printed in black. First edition. First state of No. 1 with no printer's imprint at bottom of front wrapper. All slips and ad pages present as per Hatton & Cleaver with the following exceptions: last 2pp. of Chapman and Hall ads missing from No. 1; a slip missing in No.2; slip "Tale of Chivalrous Life" not in No. 5; final two ads in No. 6 missing; no "Kaye's" slip in No. 7; no "Mappin Webb. & Co." ad at rear in No. 15. "London Society" slip supposed to be No. 9 bound in rear of No. 8 instead; "Mr. S.O. Beeton's" bound before "Astra Castra" contrary to bibliography. As is typical "Foreign Bank Notes" slip in 19 & 20 "Mappin" ad gone as well and No. 14's "Economic Life Assurance" slip absent. <br /> <br /> Very Good with spines and several covers neatly restored and general wear and light soiling; inked name or notation on front cover of Nos. 8 14. Small scrape to ad at rear of No. 16. Housed in a custom dark green morocco and cloth case. The original serialized appearance of the last novel Dickens completed with a phenomenal amount of advertisements and slips that deepen the reader's immersion in mid-19th century London. Chapman and Hall unknown books
194040137London: Chapman and Hall for the Dickens Fellowship 1940. 37 vols. Red cloth with original wrappers bound in at end; the last 7 issues still in the original wrappers & housed in broken chemise. Generally very fine. 37 vols. Gimbel H575-H578; Graham English Literary Periodicals p. 308 Chapman and Hall for the Dickens Fellowship unknown books
183900007117London: Chapman & Hall 1839. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 7 viii-xvi 1 2-624 pp. Bound in later dark brown leather spine with 5 raised bands with gilt ruling and gilt lettering marbled endpapers and pastedowns all edges gilt. Illustrated by an engraved frontispiece portait of the author engraved by Finden from a painting by Maclise along with 39 additional plates by H.K. Browne 'Phiz'. First edition bound from the parts with the front wrapper of part XVIII bound in at the rear. All is as called for in Smith for the first state including the errors on page 123 and page 160 and the imprint of Chapman & Hall on the first four plates and the frontispiece n.b the imprint on the frontispiece is at the very bottom edge and is only visible upon close inspection. Smith I 5; Gimbel A 40. A very attractive copy of Dickens' third novel. A few traces of wear to the extremities and darkening to the edges of most of the plates but the leaves and the images on the plates are generally quite clean. Chapman & Hall hardcover books
1837312240London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition in book form with 'S. Veller' on page 342 line 5; 'this friends' for 'his friends' on page 400 line 21 and 'f' in 'of' imperfect in the headline on page 432. Etched vignette title page frontispiece 41 plates by Robert Seymour R. W. Buss and H. K. Browne. The two Buss plates present facing pages 69 and 74 otherwise all plates in early states with page numbers as called for but no titles or imprints and the vignette title-page with the signboard reading "Veller" corrected to "Weller" in later issues. 8vo. Full crushed burgundy morocco gilt t.e.g. by Chas. J. Sawyer Grafton St. Paper repair to title light toning and foxing throughout. First edition in book form with 'S. Veller' on page 342 line 5; 'this friends' for 'his friends' on page 400 line 21 and 'f' in 'of' imperfect in the headline on page 432. Etched vignette title page frontispiece 41 plates by Robert Seymour R. W. Buss and H. K. Browne. The two Buss plates present facing pages 69 and 74 otherwise all plates in early states with page numbers as called for but no titles or imprints and the vignette title-page with the signboard reading "Veller" corrected to "Weller" in later issues. 8vo. Pickwick Finely Bound. Smith 3 pp. 19-27; Eckel p. 117 ff; Sadleir 698 Chapman and Hall unknown books
1837123014London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition in book form of Dickens' first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands elaborate gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles all edges gilt with a fore-edge painting displaying a portrait of Dickens and a scene from the novel. With forty-three illustrations by R. Seymour and "Phiz. In very good condition. Bookplate to the pastedown. 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
254470Boston: Jefferson Press. hardcover. near fine. 15 volumes. 8vo 3/4 black morocco marbled boards topedge gilt. Boston & New York: Jefferson Press no date ca. 1900. Near fine.<br/><br/> Edition de Luxe<br/><br/> Jefferson Press unknown books
1852020164London: Bradbury & Evans 1852. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Three volume set in original publisher's cloth each complete with half-titles and engraved frontispieces by F. W. Topham; original tissue plate-guards remain intact. Dated 1852 1853 and 1854 each volume is the First edition first issue. Vol. I has "Christmas 1851" printed on the dedication page and no page number printed on page xi. Vol. I: xii 210 pages of text; Vol. II: viii 214 pages; viii 321 pages. Each volume has an additional page of publisher's advertisements following the final page of text. The ads in the first two volumes do not include "A Child's History of England" in the list of works available. Bound in reddish-brown blind stamped publisher's cloth titled and decorated in gilt with pictorial gilt front board center decoration. The spines are slightly to moderately browned with sun-fading and the boards have minor bumping to the corners and minor soiling and small spots of staining. Minor foxing mainly affecting the first and final several pages of text and a few preliminary or final pages with tiny spots of staining/discoloration to the edges. One signature slightly loosened in volume III. An attractive copy of the First edition first state in original unrestored condition. Bradbury & Evans Hardcover
1848376045Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz jun 1848. First Tauchnitz editions. Christmas Carol with handcolored lithographed frontsipiece of Marley's Ghost and Scrooge after John Leech each work with its half-title. Together 5 works in one volume vols vols. 8vo. Nineteenth-century purple cloth gilt; spine faded. A bit of scattered foxing. First Tauchnitz editions. Christmas Carol with handcolored lithographed frontsipiece of Marley's Ghost and Scrooge after John Leech each work with its half-title. Together 5 works in one volume vols vols. 8vo. A brilliant Sammelband of the first Tauchnitz editions of Dickens's Christmas books each set from advance proofs and issued essentially simultaneously with the first London editions. Todd & Bowden Tauchnitz A1Ab A3a A5a A6 A9a Bernh. Tauchnitz, jun unknown
1890009524New York: Brentano's 1890. Book. Very Good. Paper Covered Boards. Signed by Authors. Limited and Numbered Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. # 247 of 250 copies of the American Edition there were also 500 copies printed for Great Britain SIGNED by publisher "Brentano's under numbered entry and with an introduction by F.G. Kitton. Original paper covered boards with gilt lettering front cover and spine top edge gilt. viii pages 2 66 unnumbered leaves :chiefly facsimile. Very Good white quarter paper at spine darkened paper rubbed at joints corners rubbed and bumped title page detached completely and front end page starting to detach at bottom edge. rear hinge starting at bottom edge. Internally clean and bright a better than usually seen copy of a SCARCE Dickens book. Brentano's Hardcover
1848vita9635London: Bradbury & Evans 1848. First Edition. 1st edition 1st issue in book form with Cuttle's book in his left hand in the title page vignette and no page entry for the frontis. and vignette and no quotation marks around "the Party" p. xv; "aint" has no apostrophe p. 26 10 lines up; "fidgetty" p. 26 line 11; "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show" p. 40 lines 16-17; "Delight" instead of "Joy" p. 284 5th and 6th lines from bottom; "Capatin" instead of "Captain" p. 324; and with the errata sheet. Illustrated with 38 plates vignette title page and engraved frontispiece by Hablot K. Browne. Near-Fine spine a bit faded in a matching blue slip case. Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First Edition. unknown
185768171London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. BROWNE Hablot Knight. First edition in original monthly parts: twenty numbers bound in nineteen as issued in the original blue printed wrappers. With forty inserted plates. First state text in XV with "Rigaud" for "Blandois."<br> <br> Original wrappers with the usual minor chipping and occasional splitting along spines. Some discreet repairs a few stains and tears to wrappers light edge-wear some light foxing to plates. Still a bright very nice copy. Front wrapper of part I with a 3-inch closed tear. Chemised and housed in a half green morocco pull-off case spine faded to brown.<br> <br> In the back of part XVI lacking the correction slip and the "32 Fleet St." four-page slip on green paper; otherwise all parts collates complete with all wrappers correct all"Advertisers" and all back ads. In the back ad of part XI all ads are present but bound in a different order than as stated in Hatton & Cleaver. Part XVIII complete with all text pages but they are bound in incorrect order. Part VII with tearing to lower outer corner of front ads pg 3-6 minimally affecting text. Part XIII with a corner torn on the ad slip for "Household Words" not affecting text.<br> <br> Hatton and Cleaver 305-333. Smith Dickens I 12.<br> <br> HBS 68171.<br> <br> $2000. Bradbury and Evans unknown
184099753London: Chapman and Hall 1840. First edition of this collection of short stories. Large octavo 3 volumes original blindstamped pictorial cloth gilt titles and tooling to the spine and front panel marbled endpapers all edges marbled engraved frontispiece with tissue guard in each volume illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. In near fine condition. An exceptional example. Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly serial that contained both short stories and two novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Some of the short stories act as frame stories to the novels so the ordering of publication is important. Although Dickens' original artistic intent was to keep the short stories and the novels together he himself cancelled Master Humphrey's Clock before 1848 and described in a preface to The Old Curiosity Shop that he wished the story to not be tied down to the miscellany it began within. Most later anthologies published the short stories and the novels separately. However the short stories and the novels were published in 1840 in three bound volumes under the title Master Humphrey's Clock which retains the full and correct ordering of texts as they originally appeared. Chapman and Hall hardcover
183768603London: Chapman and Hall 1837. SEYMOUR Robert; BROWNE Hablot Knight. First edition in book form. Octavo 8 3/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 212 x 130 mm. 4 xvi 609 pp. Including the half title. With forty-three inserted plates by Seymour Buss and 'Phiz'. With the Seymour and Buss plates and with the 'Phiz' plates from early steels. Frontispiece and engraved title in the first state. None of the illustrations are captioned but all are signed. With all of Smith's first issue points except for page 341-342 in variant "B" with the misspellings but with "S.Veller".<br> <br> Bound by Morrell in full 20th-century red morocco. Boards triple-ruled in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Edges ruled in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Top edge gilt. A small spot on front board. Top of spine with a sliver of leather missing. Some plates with some toning mainly along outer margins. Overall a very nice copy.<br> <br> "From a literary standpoint the supremacy of this book has been. firmly established. It was written by Dickens when he was twenty-four and its publication placed the author on a solid foundation from which he never was removed. It is quite probable that only Shakespeare's Works the Bible and perhaps the English Prayer Book exceed "Pickwick Papers" in circulation" Eckel 17. "Never was a book received with more rapturous enthusiasm than that which greeted the Pickwick Papers!" Allibone I:500. Pickwick would be the first volume in which Dickens was acknowledged as the author rather than using his pen name "Boz."<br> <br> Gimbel A15. Hatton and Cleaver. Smith Dickens I 3.<br> <br> HBS 68603.<br> <br> $2000. Chapman and Hall unknown