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1840325London: Chapman & Hall 1840. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. George Cattermole & Hablot Browne. THIS THREE VOLUME SET IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN 3/4 LEATHER WITH MARBLED BOARDS SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINES WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES PAGES ARE WITHOUT MARKS SOME LIGHT SPORADIC FOXING / SOILING TO PAGES. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CATTERMOLE AND HABLOT BROWNE BOOKS MEASURE 10" TALL. FIRST EDITION 181 YEARS OLD. AN ATTRACTIVE SET IN GREAT CONDITION. Chapman & Hall hardcover
1850291511London: Bradbury & Evans 1850. hardcover. near fine. Illustrated by H.K. Browne. 8vo 624 pages very clean of foxing handsomely rebound in full tan morocco brown leather spine labels decoratively gilt spine. London: Bradbury & Evans 1850. First Edition.<br/><br/> With most of the first issue points except "screamed" on p. 132. Errata page present.<br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans unknown books
18536707London: Bradbury & Evans 1853. First edition in book form. Very Good. Octavo xvi 624 pages frontispiece engraved title and 39 engraved plates by H. K. Browne a.k.a. Phiz. In original publisher's maroon cloth sunned to tan on spine. Scattered foxing to plates as usual but text is clean. Charles Dickens Centenary Testimonial stamp dated 1912 on front free endpaper. Ownership autograph on front free endpaper. Few stains and cello-tape ghosts on pastedowns. <br /><br /> Bradbury & Evans hardcover
1848131468London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. First edition in book form of Dickens’ novel of “Pride†with 40 etchings by Hablôt Knight Browne “Phizâ€. Octavo bound in original cloth. With 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and engraved title by H. K. Browne. In very good condition. A nice example. Dombey and Son "was well received by its readers and is considered to be the first novel that reflects Dickens's artistic maturity… Dickens told his first biographer 'It was to do with Pride what its predecessor Martin Chuzzlewit has done with Selfishness" Schlicke 280. The work "has a sense of the numinous is more profoundly touched by the sense of last things than any of Dickens' previous novels. It is larger in conception so that human life is seen in terms of its beginning and its end so that grief and forgiveness become more powerful forces within it… Dickens is aware of its status as art and provides here a simulacrum of human life touched by majesty and purpose" Ackroyd 526. The original serials contain the first of Browne's "dark plates" "On the dark Road" in part 18 created by the engraver's lining machine and roulettes that tint the etched plate creating heightened contrast Johannsen Phiz 309. Bradbury and Evans hardcover
183914351London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First Edition Mixed Issue. Full leather. Near fine. First edition mixed state of Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens finely bound by Bayntun. Octavo xvi 624pp 1. Full green morocco portrait and signature stamped in gilt to covers. Five gilt-embellished raised bands title in gilt on spine. Ornate gilt trim turn-ins and gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Bound by Bayntun in Bath England. Solid text block with a few spots of toning throughout. Lacking half title. Includes many first state points as named in Smith notably "latter" for "letter" on page 160. Lacking the "s" on "yesterday" on page 198 and the "Chapman and Hall" imprint on frontis and first four plates. Complete with frontis and 39 full-page plates. Smith I 5 Gimbel A41 A striking example. Chapman and Hall unknown
1837140607London: Chapman and Hall 1837. full crushed black morocco with gilt borders and ornamentation on boards gilt decorations on spine with five raised bands leather turn-ins with gilt marbled endsheets all edges gilt. 8vo. full crushed black morocco with gilt borders and ornamentation on boards gilt decorations on spine with five raised bands leather turn-ins with gilt marbled endsheets all edges gilt. xvi 609 pages with numerous plates bound-in. First edition in book mixed issue points but containing the name "Tony Veller" on the signboard on the engraved title page Smith I.3. Private bookplate of Frederic William Bois on front pastedown. Preliminary pages lightly foxed with some of the preliminary plates showing moderate foxing. This copy is an extra-illustrated copy with 86 total plates bound-in by Phiz i.e. Hablot Knight Brown Robert Seymour as well as one of the two supressed Robert William Buss plates. A beautiful copy.<BR> <br /> <BR> <br /> The serial was originally intended to be primarily a vehicle for the cartoons of Robert Seymour until he died by suicide after the first number was published. Robert William Buss then took over but he was inexperienced in steel engraving and had to be replaced. The final choice Hablot Knight Browne "Phiz" was to be Dickens's chosen collaborator for the next two decades. <BR> <br /> <BR> <br /> Very uncommon to find with a plate by Robert William Buss. Chapman and Hall unknown
06155London: Chapman & Hall Ltd. 1890. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club<br /> In a Fine Binding by The Guild of Women Binders<br /> <br /> DICKENS Charles. GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS The. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With illustrations. London: Chapman & Hall n.d. ca. 1890. <br /> <br /> Two octavo volumes 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; 216 x 140 mm. i-vii viii-xvi 2 list of illustrations verso blank 1-471 1 imprint pp.; i-v vi-viii 2 list of illustrations verso blank 1-491 1blank pp. Forty-three engraved plates by George Cruikshank including two frontispieces and engraved title.<br /> <br /> Bound by The Guild of Women Binders stamp signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full red Morocco covers bordered in gilt with four gilt floral decorations. Spines with five raised bands decoratively tooled in gilt in the Art Nouveau style with hearts and flowers lettered in gilt in compartments marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Armorial bookplate of Adam Rivers Steele on front paste-down. Half-title to volume one slightly creased. A fine copy.<br /> <br /> The Guild of Women-Binders was an organization founded to promote and distribute the work of women bookbinders at the turn of the 20th century. It was founded by Frank Francis Karslake in 1898 and disbanded in 1904. It helped sell bindings produced by women binders already practicing and instituted training programs to teach other women. Frank Karslake was a London bookseller and a founder and financial backer of the Hampstead Bindery. At the 1897 Victorian Era Exhibition at Earl's Court he encountered several bindings by women including Annie S. Macdonald on display and his interest was piqued. Soon after he invited several women binders to exhibit their work in his London shop; this "Exhibition of Artistic Bookbinding by Women" which ran from November 1897 to February 1898 garnered a substantial amount of interest from the public and convinced him that promoting women's bookbindings could be a profitable venture if perhaps partially for the novelty. Whatever his motivations Karslake soon began acting as an agent to women binders already practicing such as Annie MacDonald and Edith and Florence de Rheims.<br /> <br /> The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club also known as The Pickwick Papers is the first novel by English author Charles Dickens. His previous work was Sketches by Boz published in 1836 and his publisher Chapman & Hall asked Dickens to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour and to connect them into a novel. The book became a publishing phenomenon with bootleg copies theatrical performances Sam Weller joke books and other merchandise. London: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1890 unknown
1839137984London: London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First edition of this classic work. Octavo bound in full calf by Root and Son gilt titles and tooling to the spine raised bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels all edges gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers illustrated with 40 plates. In near fine condition remnant of a bookplate to the front free endpaper. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is considered the last of Dickens picaresque novels. It was originally serialised in 1843 and 1844. Dickens thought it to be his best work. "Dickens' funniest novel" William Boyd. London: Chapman and Hall hardcover
187036283Boston: Fields Osgood & Co 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. The complete first appearance of The Mystery of Edwin Drood as serialized in Every Saturday April 9 1870 to September 17 1870. 880pp. Brown half calf spine lettered in gold. Also includes the obituary of Charles Dickens July 2 1870 p. 418 and an essay on the unfinished novel September 17 1870 p.595. Illustrated with spectacular engravings by C. G. Bush John Gilbert Godefroy Durand Gavarni Pearson Bodmer and many others. Comes with a scarce contemporary Charles Dickens silk bookmark manufactured by Bollans & Co. of Leamington. Covers are worn front cover partially split at spine some very minor insect damage to the edges of some of the leaves. Binding is still solid. Internally very clean. At the time of this writing this is the only complete set of The Mystery of Edwin Drood published by Osgood available. ; Folio. Fields, Osgood, & Co hardcover
1865BB1984London: Chapman & Hall 193 Piccadilly 1865. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. First Issue with all issue points per Smith and November not December catalog at end of volume II. Demy 8vo 211 x 134mm: xii3203-36first advertisement leaf not bound in; viii3124pp with 20 full-page plates in each volume. Publisher's original dark purplish-brown sand-grain cloth covers blocked in blind with decorative arch frame embellished with leaves and flowers; spines richly gilt with leaves flowers and flourishes and lettered in gilt; coated yellow end papers; fore-edge untrimmed. Contemporary ownership inscription of James Martin Wainfleet on fly-leaf and half-title one dated 1866. Original spines very skillfully laid down paper hinges neatly reinforced faint spotting and offsetting from plates else an excellent set tightly bound and clean throughout. Smith I 15. Sadleir 697. Wolff II 1809. Podeschi Gimbel Collection A. Grolier Dickens pp. 154-56. Dickens's last completed novel in two volumes as issued. "Our Mutual Friend had a mixed reception the young Henry James's harshly dismissive review in The Nation is notorious but its stock has risen dramatically in recent years and it is now generally regarded as one of his very greatest works." ODNB. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Chapman & Hall, 193 Piccadilly unknown
1837BB1712London: John Macrone from 1836 1837. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. Second series" of this collection of short pieces of literary journalism that marked the launch of the young author’s meteoric career. Crown 8vo 194 x 120mm: 4viii3771pp with 10 steel-engraved plates including frontispiece and vignette title page dated 1836 by George Cruikshank. Complete with catalogue of Macrone's publications dated December 1836. Page vi is misnumbered "viii;" list of illustrations gives "Vauxhall Gardens by Day" twice in error and omits final plate "Mr. Minns and his Cousin." All required first edition points present per Smith who notes: "it does not appear possible to associate definitely early or late copies totally with states of the spine endpapers pale yellow or blue location of the plates and whether or not they contain the volume number the absence or presence of the list of illustrations and internal flaws." Publisher's original moderate red morocco-grain cloth covers bordered and decorated in blind with wreath centerpieces black pigmented panels on spine lettered in gilt yellow coated end papers. Blind-embossed in tiny type centered at foot of front cover: "Remnant & Edmonds London" see Ramsden p. 121 and Jamieson p. 11. Housed in made-to-order folding box. Excellent original cloth barely any lightening plates moderately foxed but mostly marginally so pages generally clean bright and virtually free of foxing. Original spines very expertly relaid retaining "dark pigments" for both lettering pieces. The fragile cloth makes this second series devilishly difficult to obtain in such collectible condition. Smith I: 2. Sadleir 700 Eckel pp. 12-13. First Edition of Dickens's rare first work second series in original cloth introducing a major literary talent to Victorian England. In February 1836 John Macrone published Sketches by Boz illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People which came to be known as the “first series." This “second series†appeared in December. Sadleir ranked both series on his list of Dickens raities although in our experience the second series is now the more elusive. "Dickens originally published most of the pieces collected under Sketches in a wide variety of newspapers and periodicals between December 1833 and December 1836 at the beginning struggling just to appear in print. . . . The appearance of 'Boz' as Dickens’s pen-name a corruption of a family nickname Moses via Dickens’s younger brother’s mispronunciation in one of these seven pieces “The Boarding House†marked to a certain degree the young writer coming into his own. . . . " Literary Encyclopedia N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. John Macrone [from 1836] unknown
Lovely Scrooge-decorated bookplate inside front board bears Barks' hand-written signature and book number. Slipcase bears large excellent colour illustration of Scrooge posing in cowboy hat and red bandana with sack of gold, pick, canteen, ammunition belt, and rifle. Contents include: "Donald Duck's Christmas on Bear Mountain", "Dickens Redone" (two-page illustrated commentary, "The Storybook Scrooge" (one-page commentary), "Uncle Scrooge", "Uncle Scrooge's Christmas Carol", "The Triumph of Scrooge McDuck" (10 page colour illustrated commentary), "Uncle Scrooge the Lemonade King", and selected bibliography. Unpaginated. Book measures almost 12.5" high by 9.5" wide by 5/8" thick. Clean and glossy with negligible wear. Prior owner's signature and date neatly written upon bookplate on 'This Book Belongs To ______" line. Half-inch opening to back panel of dust jacket at edge of lower left corner seems to have resulted from the paper cracking rather than from wear. Very light wear to attractive slipcase. A premium copy. Book
183983139Chapman and Hall | London 1839 | 14 x 21.50 cm | relié
1853844g45London: Bradbury and Evans 1853. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". H. K. Browne Phiz . A handsome first edition first issue of one of Charles Dickens' most celebrated novels. The first edition first issue. With first issue points as identified by Eckel: 'elgble' to page 19 line 6 "chair" to page 209 line 23 'counsinship' to page 275 line 22 and "picter" to page 529 line 32. Bound from the parts with small stamp holes to the gutter. The original serialisation ran from March 1852 to September 1853 across twenty issues. Each issue cost one shilling though the final double issue cost two shillings.Rebound in a smart quarter morocco binding with gilt lettering to the spine. With the original front paper wraps for No. V of the serial bound in. With a frontispiece engraved title page and thirty-eight full-page plates including the ten dark plates. Collated complete. Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne known by his pen name "Phiz" an English illustrator who contributed his work to ten of Charles Dickens' books including 'David Copperfield' and 'Dombey and Son'.Narrated by Esther Summerson Dickens's novel concerns the long running legal case Jarndyce and Jarndyce in the Court of Chancery. The case surrounds a number of several conflicting wills written by the same person. Inspired by a true story the novel actually helped support a judicial reform in the form of the 1870s Judicature Acts.The half title page is present. With the previous owner's ink signature to the title page. Rebound in quarter morocco. Externally excellent with little shelf wear. Internally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with some age-toning to the edges and spotting to the plates. Scattered spots and handling marks throughout. Previous owner's ink signature to the title page. Small amount of loss to the lower part of page viii. Very Good Indeed Bradbury and Evans hardcover
1870814P2London: Chapman & Hall 1870. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 9.5" by 6.5". Samuel Luke Fields. The original six parts of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' the final unfinished work of Charles Dickens here in the original serialised parts. Complete in the six original parts - no more parts were published as Dickens died whilst writing.First issue with the "eighteenpence" slip over the one shilling price to the front wrap of Part VI. Complete with all twelve plates called for a well as a portrait frontispiece and engraved title page to Part VI.Collated; Part I lacks page 26/27 of the front advertisements and the four pages of adverts for 'Henry Brett' to the rear; Part III lacks all adverts to the rear besides the Chapman Petter and Galpin 'Publications' adverts; Part V lacking the eight pages of Chapman & Halls 'Recent Publication' adverts to the rear; and Part VI bound without the Wilcox and Gibbs advert 'Concerning Stitches' to the rear.The very scarce fragile advert for 'Cork Hats' to the rear of Part II is present but detached.In a custom cloth box in a very good indeed condition.'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' was Dickens' final work left unfinished upon his death in June 1870 - of the twelve instalments planned only these six had been written. As Dickens hadn't left a clear or detailed plan as to the continuation or resolution of the plot the 'Mystery' was left unsolved.Charles Dickens is possibly the most well-known Victorian author with his fifteen novels still being widely read and performed as well as being studied in school and enjoyed by people of all ages. In the original publisher's paper wraps in a custom cloth box. Externally generally smart. A little edge wear to the wraps resulting in some chips as is usual heavier to the backstrips. Some discolouration to the wraps and a few light handling marks. Front wrap of Part VI is detached but present. Prior owner's pencil note to the head of the front wrap of Part II IV V and VI. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots including to the plates. Portrait frontispiece to Part VI is detached but present. Cloth box with a few light parts in a very good indeed condition. Very Good Chapman & Hall paperback
18372160London: Chapman & Hall 1837. First edition. First edition. Three-quarter contemporary calf. Rare first edition featuring six full-page illustrations by Phiz. Together with the same title Sixth Edition Bound also in three-quarter calf. Both very good tight copies with some wear and brown-toning. Chapman & Hall unknown
18422230London: Chapman & Hall 1842. Second edition. Second edition. Two volumes. Original light brown fine grained cloth with elaborate blindstamped design on both covers and spine gilt lettering on spine smooth yellow endsheets. 308pp; 306pp; 6 page publisher's prospectus at end. A superb copy in original cloth with slight sunning else fine with cloth clean and crisp gilt on covers bright and all hinges fully intact. Scarce thus. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover books
18382159London: Chapman & Hall 1838. First edition. First edition. 12mo. Original light green paper covered boards with cover illustration add on back cover. Six illustrations by "Phiz." Backstrip appears to have contemporary replacement. An attractive copy offered here together with the Sixth Edition 1838 Chapman and Hall three quarter calf cover bound in at front very good. The first edition in original boards is becoming quite scarce. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover books
18582161London: Bradbury & Evans 1858. First edition. First edition. Superb full green crushed morocco with gilt edge ruling and lettering with multiple ruled compartments more ornate gilt designs on dentelles by Zaehnsdorf signed "Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1896" in publisher's stamped letters bottom verso of front endsheet. Original bright green printed wrappers bound in place i.e. entire book bound together as a unit. A superb early Zaehnsdorf binding in near fine condition; contents near fine. <br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans unknown books
1840301077<p>1840-41. First editions. Tall octavo. 194 engraved illustrations chiefly after drawings by George Cattermole and Hablot Knight Browne with one by Daniel Maclise. Full polished tan calf by Riviere & Son gilt stamped spines with raised bands and floral decorated compartments with tan and red spine labels covers double ruled in gilt gilt inner fillets and dentelles edges extra gilt marbled. Fine. No foxing text remarkably clean. 3 volumes in one complete. Tan cloth slipcase. No signatures or bookplates. Fine first edition also incorporating "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge". Eckel pp. 69-70.</p> Chapman and Hall hardcover books
1870830931870. FILDES S. L. DICKENS Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. With Twelve Illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a Portrait. London: Chapman & Hall April - September 1870. First edition. A total of 14 illustrations including a portrait of Dickens and a vignette title-page. Octavo. viii1-1902 pp. In the original six monthly parts as issued in blue paper wrappers. Housed in a green three-quarter leather pull-off case in a green cloth chemise. Wrappers show some general light wear butsome minor expert repair and are very good overall. The front wrap on Part 1 has a small ink spot near one edge and shows a bit more wear than the other wrappers. Almost all advertisements are present including the rare cork ad in Part 2 lacking only four pages nos. 7 - 10 of the "Edwin Drood Advertiser" in Part 3 and the eight-page Chapman & Hall catalog in Part 5. Another minor difference the eight-page Chapman & Hall catalog in Part 1 is not completely unpaginated; pages 2 and 3 are marked as such. Part 6 has the "Eighteenpence" slip pasted over the original price on front wrap as found in the earliest issues. Some plates show mild light foxing. Text leaves are clean. This was Dickens' last work; it was left unfinished at his death in June 1870. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 371-384. unknown books
04215London: Chapman and Hall 1870. First Edition of Edwin Drood and The First 'Conclusion' - John Jasper's Secret<br/>Uniformly Bound by Zaehnsdorf<br/><br/>DICKENS Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. With Twelve Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and a Portrait. London: Chapman and Hall 1870.<br/><br/>First edition in book form of Dickens's final work left unfinished at the time of his death. <br/><br/>Octavo 8 3/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 208 x 133 mm. vii 1 "Illustrations" 190 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens "Engraved by J.H. Baker from a Photograph taken in 1868 by Mason & Co." wood-engraved vignette title by J. Brown and twelve wood-engraved plates two by the firm of Dalziel Brothers ten by Charles Roberts all after Samuel Luke Fildes. Occasional marginal staining wood-engraved plate facing p. 98 with small 1/4 inch marginal tear. A very good copy.<br/><br/>Together with:<br/><br/>EDWIN DROOD MORFORD Henry attributed to. John Jasper's Secret: Being a Narrative of Certain Events Following and Explaining "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." With Twenty Illustrations. London: Publishing Offices 1872. <br/><br/>First English edition in book form. <br/><br/>Octavo 7 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 201 x 133 mm. iv 252 pp. Twenty wood-engraved plates.<br/><br/>Uniformly bound ca. 1920 by Zaehnsdorf for the Gardenside Bookshop Boston stamp-signed in black on verso of front free- endpapers. Full polished tan calf covers decoratively bordered in gilt. Gilt corner pieces with small floral onlays in black morocco decorative center pieces stamped in blind. Spines with five raised band decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with small brown morocco floral onlays. Edwin Drood with two brown morocco labels lettered in gilt John Jasper's Secret with one brown morocco label lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled board edges decorative turn-ins marbled end-papers top edge gilt. Joints a little rubbed but quite sound. A very attractive example housed together in a felt-lined fitted marbled board slipcase.<br/><br/>"When Dickens died on June 9 1870 he had completed only enough of his manuscript to make up six instalments leaving unfinished a work which had commanded the widest attention for its opening numbers and which promised to be one of his most effective and popular books. Although only three parts had been issued prior to his death publication of the work continued and on completion with Part 6 of all available material the vast army of readers was left high and dry as to ‘The Mystery.' The Author during the writing of the story never disclosed the ultimate development of his plot" Hatton and Cleaver.<br/><br/>John Jasper's Secret was the first of many attempts to solve The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The work was written by the New York journalist Henry Morford 1823-1881 and his wife. <br/><br/>Smith 16; Gimbel H330; Sadleir 705a; Not in Sadleir. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870 unknown books
186027986London: St. Luke's Hospital 1860. 1st separate edition second issue Eckel pp. 188-191; Gimbel B-216; VanderPoel B-465. Original pale pink printed wrappers sewn. Typographical border surrounding title lettering on front wrapper. Wrappers a bit faded & show a mite of soiling. Paper repair to front wrapper top edge as well as spine paper. Old vertical fold crease to center as is usually found from mailing. A VG copy. 19 1 pp. 7" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>This short piece by Dickens on St. Luke's Hospital originally published in the January 17 1852 issue of HOUSEHOLD WORDS. With Dickens' consent it was reissued in this pamphlet form by the Hospital management as a fund-raising mechanism. The first issue had purple wrappers in which the 'appeal' was not highlighted from the remainder of the text and evidently donations suffered accordingly. in this second issue the wrappers are pink the 'appeal' is boldly printed and it was accompanied by an easy-to-use return envelope much as we see today in the solicitations we receive. make it easy on the mark!. A rather uncommon item of Dickensiana. [St. Luke's Hospital] unknown books
184044033London: Richard Bentley 1840. New Edition cf. Tillotson Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. Fifth Series Vol. XVIII No. 2 June 1963; Smith Notes 5d and 5e. Publisher's original dark red-brown diaper cloth vertically-ribbed with gilt spine lettering imprint present; arabesque design in blind to the boards. Average wear to extremities; spines sunned; light foxing and occasional edge-darkening to plates. VG. Three volumes: 2 331 1 blank 4 ads pp.; 2 307 1 blank pp.; 2 315 1 blank pp. 24 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5" <br/><br/>Volumes I and II of the Bentley's fictitious "new edition" printed from the plates of the Second Edition with Vol III of the 1840 publication this volume entirely reset and printed by Schulze. Given the matched casings we presume the sheets were sent by the publisher to bindery at the same time and so sold as a set in 1840. Tillotson mentions having seen only one other copy of the New Edition at the London Library rebound and lacking the advertisements; Smith notes that it is "very scarce" and adds that the 1840 issue is also "quite scarce." Richard Bentley hardcover books
18372160London: Chapman & Hall 1837. First edition. First edition. Three quarter contemporary calf. Rare first edition featuring six full-page illustrations by Phiz. Together with the same title Sixth Edition Bound also in three quarter calf. Both very good tight copies with some wear and browntoning. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall unknown books
