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1846008496London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. First edition. Hardcover. Richard Doyle John Leech Daniel Maclise Clarkson Stanfield. This is the first edition first printing first state of the third Dickens Christmas book an unrestored copy in the publishers original illustrated red cloth. Condition is very good. The elaborately gilt and blind stamped red cloth remains square bright and tight with vivid gilt on the front cover and spine and no appreciable color shift between the covers and spine. The binding shows light overall scuffing and soiling shelf wear to the spine ends and corners and mild rippling of the cloth at the upper center of the rear cover. The contents are notably clean with no spotting no previous ownership marks and only mild toning. The original pale yellow endpapers are present as is the two-page vignette preceding the title page. This copy contains the first state 10-line advertisement leaf for Oliver Twist following the text. The gilt edges remain bright. The binding is protected beneath a clear removable mylar cover. <br /> <br />Although the title page of The Cricket on the Hearth is postdated 1846 publication was on 20 December 1845. <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 Cricket the story centers on John and Dot Peerybingle whose marriage is threatened by a wide difference in their ages. When confronted with the possibility of Dot's infidelity John consults the spirit of the Cricket on the Hearth whose chirping Dot has said brings luck. The cricket assures John that all will be well. In the end the misunderstanding is cleared up and the couple's happiness is restored. The story also features the Scrooge-like conversion of hard-hearted toymaker Tackleton. <br /> <br />Reference: Smith II 6; ODNB <br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans hardcover
1848121387London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. First edition in book form of Dickens' novel of "Pride" with 40 etchings by Hablot Knight Browne "Phiz". Octavo bound in full morocco by Bayntun gilt titles and tooling to the spine raised bands gilt medallion portrait of Dickens on the front panel gilt signature on the back panel inner dentelles gilt ruled to the front and rear panels all edges gilt marbled endpapers. With 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and engraved title by H. K. Browne. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. 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 books
184021843London: Chapman and Hall 1840-41. First Edition in Book Form. Bound from the original parts. 3 tall octavo volumes 26cm; publisher's purple-brown vertical-ribbed cloth covers decorated with blind border of thick and thin fillets and broad elaborate flower leaf and stem design with spines lettered and decorated in gilt with five scrolled shields and three leaf-bulb designs; primary binding with the hands on gilt clocks on each front cover pointing to the hour which corresponds to the appropriate volume number; variant marbled endpapers; 2 iv 306; vi 306; vi 426pp; illus. with three frontispieces and numerous wood-engravings in text by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". Previous owner's name "Mrs. Eden" written in a contemporary hand at center of first blank in each volume; hint of sunning to spines with spine ends lightly softened; light wear to lower board edges with brief exposure to lower corners; slight forward lean to Vol.1; Vol.3 expertly re-hinged; occasional finger soil to margins though generally clean throughout and free of foxing; an attractive Very Good set overall. Master Humphrey's Clock was planned to be a collection of stories and sketches told by Master Humphrey and his circle of friends as Dickens outlined in his preface - written in weekly parts over 40 months. The original scheme was not successful and Dickens altered the format to make Master Humphrey's material a framework for his novels The Old Curiosity Shop nos.6-45 and Barnaby Rudge nos.46-88. Chapman and Hall unknown books
1837243063London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First. hardcover. Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. 609pp. thick 8vo early 20th century 3/4 red morocco a.e.g .London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First Edition.<br/><br/> Early issue with many of the required points including the 2 Buss plates facing pp. 69 & 74 "Tony Veller" & "Phiz fecit." on half-title signature E on p. 25 etc. The plates are lightly but evenly toned without foxing. Some plates are signed with and others without page numbers but none have captions.<br/><br/> Chapman and Hall unknown books
1852005281London: Bradbury and Evans 1852 1853 and 1854. First edition first issue. Full Morocco. Cloth Slipcase. Fine. Beautiful full brown morocco set bound by Henry Sotheran of London with a blindstamped gilt cameo portrait as a centerpiece on each volume's front board a gilt impression of his autograph on each rear board and English or kingly devices stamped into the spine compartments a crown an abstract rose a fleur-de-lys an armorial lion. Original cloth front covers with gilt vignettes bound into respective volumes. With first issue points: "Christmas 1851" in Vol. I Dedication; missing "xi" for page number in this first volume; missing "6" for Chapter XXV Table of Contents of Vol. II. But does have "287" for page number of third volume. With ads in all volumes. Gilt edges. Gilt ruling. Light wear of custom cloth slipcase. <br/><br/> Bradbury and Evans hardcover books
1854005281London: Bradbury and Evans 1854. First edition first issue. Full Morocco. Cloth Slipcase. Fine. Beautiful full brown morocco set bound by Henry Sotheran of London with a blindstamped gilt cameo portrait as a centerpiece on each volume's front board a gilt impression of his autograph on each rear board and English or kingly devices stamped into the spine compartments a crown an abstract rose a fleur-de-lys an armorial lion. Original cloth front covers with gilt vignettes bound into respective volumes. With first issue points: "Christmas 1851" in Vol. I Dedication; missing "xi" for page number in this first volume; missing "6" for Chapter XXV Table of Contents of Vol. II. But does have "287" for page number of third volume. With ads in all volumes. Gilt edges. Gilt ruling. Light wear of custom cloth slipcase. Bradbury and Evans unknown
1853136226London: Bradbury Evans 1853. First edition of this Dickens' classic. Octavo bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards gilt titles and tooling to the spine raised bands top edge gilt marble endpapers. In near fine condition. Illustrated with engraved title page and 39 engraved plates by H.K. Browne. "In Bleak House for the first time society is seen as an absurdity an irrelevance almost a madness. A dark force from which the real people must escape in order to create another society of their own Dickens had been preparing for this novel all his life and despite the calamities which had helped to provoke it in the first place was even happy while he was writing it It might even be said that Bleak House cured the very malaise which was responsible for its composition" Ackroyd 649-50. "The Dickens cosmos his phantasmagoric London and visionary England emerges in Bleak House with a clarity and pungency that surpasses the rest of his work before and after" Bloom 311. Bradbury Evans hardcover
184021843London: Chapman and Hall 1840-41. First Edition in Book Form. Bound from the original parts. 3 tall octavo volumes 26cm; publisher's purple-brown vertical-ribbed cloth covers decorated with blind border of thick and thin fillets and broad elaborate flower leaf and stem design with spines lettered and decorated in gilt with five scrolled shields and three leaf-bulb designs; primary binding with the hands on gilt clocks on each front cover pointing to the hour which corresponds to the appropriate volume number; variant marbled endpapers; 2 iv 306; vi 306; vi 426pp; illus. with three frontispieces and numerous wood-engravings in text by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". Previous owner's name "Mrs. Eden" written in a contemporary hand at center of first blank in each volume; hint of sunning to spines with spine ends lightly softened; light wear to lower board edges with brief exposure to lower corners; slight forward lean to Vol.1; Vol.3 expertly re-hinged; occasional finger soil to margins though generally clean throughout and free of foxing; an attractive Very Good set overall. Master Humphrey's Clock was planned to be a collection of stories and sketches told by Master Humphrey and his circle of friends as Dickens outlined in his preface - written in weekly parts over 40 months. The original scheme was not successful and Dickens altered the format to make Master Humphrey's material a framework for his novels The Old Curiosity Shop nos.6-45 and Barnaby Rudge nos.46-88. Chapman and Hall unknown
1865009512London: Chapman & Hall 1865. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In publisher's original embossed purple cloth gilt spine pale yellow end papers. With 40 wood engravings including frontispieces by Marcus Stone. With the rare slip to the reader preceding p. 1 in Vol. I and 5 pages of ads following postscript at rear of Vol. II dated November 1865. No stab holes. Very Good cloth torn at spine ends corners rubbed London bookseller's blind stamp front end page prior owner name dated 1866 front end pages. An unrestored set of this Dickens classic and uncommon thus. Chapman & Hall Hardcover
1839147629London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First edition of the new edition of one of Dickens' collection of short pieces. Octavo bound in full red calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels marbled endpapers with forty illustrations by George Cruikshank. In near fine condition. A very sharp example. The sketches of urban life that make up Sketches by Boz first appeared in a variety of London magazines. “What impressed his contemporaries as much as the vivacity of his style was the way in which he was able to chronicle the lives of ‘the people’ even at the time they were first struggling to find social and economic expression. This was how he found his great subject in crowd scenes in streets in the lives of people who are uniquely tied together for better or worse and who are part of the city which rises like an hallucination through these early sketches†Ackroyd 169. Chapman and Hall unknown
1837148216London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition in book form of Dickens' first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo bound in full polished calf bound by Bayntun with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands morocco spine labels lettered in gilt double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Forty-three engraved plates by Seymour and Phiz and the two Buss plates which Dickens requested to be removed in subsequent printings on pages 69 and 74 frontispiece and title vignette. In near fine condition bookplate to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. A very sharp example. Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers a comic masterpiece that catapulted its twenty-four-year-old author to immediate fame. Readers were captivated by the adventures of the poet Snodgrass the lover Tupman the sportsman Winkle and above all by that quintessentially English Quixote Mr Pickwick and his cockney Sancho Panza Sam Weller. From the hallowed turf of Dingley Dell Cricket Club to the unholy fracas of the Eatanswill election via the Fleet debtors prison characters and incidents sprang to life from Dickenss pen to form an enduringly popular work of ebullient humour and literary invention. Chapman and Hall unknown
1837243063London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First. hardcover. Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. 609pp. thick 8vo early 20th century 3/4 red morocco a.e.g .London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First Edition.<br/> <br/> Early issue with many of the required points including the 2 Buss plates facing pp. 69 & 74 "Tony Veller" & "Phiz fecit." on half-title signature E on p. 25 etc. The plates are lightly but evenly toned without foxing. Some plates are signed with and others without page numbers but none have captions.<br/> <br/> Chapman and Hall unknown
1840943F15London: Chapman and Hall c1840-c1860. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". Phiz Hablot Knight Browne; Robert Seymour. Early undated printings of four classic novels by Charles Dickens beautifully bound in full calf and illustrated throughout with plates by Phiz. A wonderful set of four classic novels by Dickens.Two of these volumes retain issue points of the first editions despite being undated early printings.Present here are:'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby' illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and thirty-nine plates by Hablot Knight Browne. Collated complete.This is an early printing of the 1839 first edition with the title page being undated. Although there is no confirmed date of publication this printing is generally given the date of circa 1840 National Trust Libraries. With 'London: Bradbury Agnew & Co. printers Whitefriars' to tilte page verso as called for.'Dombey and Son' illustrated with a title page frontispiece and thirty-eight plates by H. K. Browne. Collated complete.An undated c1850 early printing by Chapman and Hall. First editions are dated and were was published by Bradbury and Evans. The printer's name to the verso of the title page is stated as 'Bradbury Evans' to this work indicating once again its status as an early printing. Issue points present; the vignette title shows the hook on Captain Cuttle's left arm rather than his right; 'fidgetty' for 'fidgety' on page 26 on line 11; with the plate "On the dark road" opposite p. 547. Page 324 last line here with the corrected printing error "Captain" instead of "Capatin" in the first edition. Issue points as stated by John C. Eckel in his 1913 publication 'The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens'.'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club' illustrated with a title page frontispiece and forty-one plates by Phiz and Robert Seymour. Collated complete.An undated circa 1860 edition as dated via the National Trust Libraries. With 'Bradbury and Evans and Co. printers Whitefriars.' to title page verso as called for. The two Buss plates facing pages 69 and 74 have been replaced by Phiz plates facing pages 73 and 76'Bleak House' illustrated with a title page frontispiece and thirty-seven plates by H. K. Browne. Collated complete.An undated circa 1860 printing published by Chapman and Hall but with 'London: Bradbury and Evans and Co. printers Whitefriars.' to title page verso. The 1853 first edition in book form was published by Bradbury. With errata leaf as called for.Some first edition issue points are present for example 'elgble' uncorrected to page 19 and 'picter' uncorrected to page 529.'Bleak House' 'Nicholas' and 'Dombey' retain their original half titles.Rebacked retaining original endpapers. Rebacked in morocco with full calf boards restored. Gilt detailing to back strips. Externally excellent with a touch of rubbing to joint heads. Retaining original endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Spotting to title pages. Pages bright with instances of spotting and foxing to page perimeters and to plates of 'Dombey and Pickwick'. Small closed tear to fore edge of engraved title page of 'Pickwick'. Pages of 'Bleak House' exceptionally clean and bright with only the odd spot. 'Nicholas' generally clean and bright with spotting to page perimeters. Very Good Indeed Chapman and Hall hardcover
1870851P25London: Chapman & Hall 1870. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 9.5" by 6". Samuel Luke Fields. The final uncompleted work of Charles Dickens here in the original six serialised parts. Complete in the six original parts.The first issue of Part VI with the 'eighteenpence' slip pasted over the original on shilling price to the head of the front wrap.Complete with all twelve plates called for a well as a portrait frontispiece and engraved title page to Part VI.Part I is complete with all ads.Part II is lacking the 'Cork Hats' advert. Part III is complete with all ads.Part IV is complete with all ads and a duplicate of the final 'Chapman & Co Entire Wheat Flour' advert.Part V lacks pages 1-2 and 7-8 of 'Chapman & Hall's Recent Publications'.Part VI lacks the 'Wilcox & Gibbs "A New World at Home"' advert.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. Externally generally smart. A little loss of paper to the backstrips particularly to Parts I II III IV and VI. Prior owner's pencil note to the head of each wrap. Front wrap of Part II is detached but present rear wrap of Part VI is detached but present. Light discolouration to the wraps particularly to Part I. Front wrap of Part I is edge worn with some chips and loss lifting a little to the head and tail. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some scattered spots. Part V's 'Chapman & Hall's Recent Publications' advert is loose. Light marks to the custom cloth box. Very Good Chapman & Hall paperback
1836ST16866sLondon: Chapman and Hall 1836. FIRST EDITION. 175 x 115 mm. 6 7/8 x 4 1/2". v 1 49 pp. <br/> Extremely pleasing red crushed morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf covers with French fillet border raised bands spine in compartments with ornate urn-and-floral-spray centerpiece gilt titling turn-ins with gilt floral roll top edge gilt other edges untrimmed. Original pictorial wrappers bound in. Title page and illustrated wrapper with three small woodcut heads three plates with guards all by H. K. Browne. Title page with Charles Dickens' name faintly written in ink beneath "Timothy Sparks" in a 19th century hand. Eckel pp. 102-03. ◆Front joint a little worn though well masked with dye separation in hinge after front flyleaf but a solid lustrous and very pretty binding; internally fine with only the most trivial imperfections.<br/> <br/> This is an attractive copy complete with original wrappers of Dickens' little political pamphlet written in opposition to a bill being considered in Parliament that called for stricter Sunday observance. Dickens felt that fresh laws for more rigorous enforcement of restrained behavior were unfair to the poor because their six-day work week left only Sundays for leisure and he pleaded in the pamphlet for the encouragement of sabbath excursions and harmless amusements. The "three heads" symbolize Sunday "As It Is As Sabbath Bills Would Make It and As It Might Be Made." Longtime Dickens collaborator H. K. Browne "Phiz" has provided three scenes imagining the day of rest in each of these situations. The handsome binding is by a 19th century English powerhouse of craftsmen the Zaehnsdorf bindery founded by Hungarian emigré Joseph Zaehnsdorf 1816-86 in 1842. Chapman and Hall unknown
1857221899London : Bradbury and Evans 11 Bouverie Street 1857. 1st edition 1st issue. Hardback. Scattered marginal foxing small closed tear to the first 2 leaves. Finely bound in modern calf over green fine-ribbed cloth boards. Raised bands with a contrasting gilt-blocked label. An uncommonly good copy - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 625 pages; Physical description; xiv 625 p. 40 leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm. 8vo. Originally issued in 20 numbers in 19 parts numbers 19 and 20 published in one part between Dec. 1855 and June 1857; first published in one volume on 30 May 1857. Errata: p. xiv. Added engraved t.p. dated 1857. Referenced by: Smith Walter E. Charles Dickens in the original cloth 12. Sterling Library I275. Subjects; England - Social life and customs - 19th century - Fiction. English fiction - 19th century. Children of prisoners - Fiction. Inheritance and succession - England - Fiction. Issue points covered; Rigaud for Blandois on p. 469 ad passim. Signature BB2 marked B2 on p.371. London : Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street hardcover
1894218414Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1894 1894. Large-Paper Edition. Hardback. Limited edition: 500 copies printed no. 89. Very good copies in the original red cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Some light fraying also evident on some spine bands. Spine covers sun-toned. Title-printed spine labels somewhat edge-worn and tanned. Very light tanning around page margins. This set includes copies with unread and unopened pages. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Further scans images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 0 pages; Description: 32 v. fronts. plates ports. 21 cm. "". illustrated with steel portraits and engravings from the original designs by Browne Cruikshank Leech and others."" --title page. Contents: 1-2. The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club. --3. Sketches by Boz. --4. The adventures of Oliver Twist. --5-6. Life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. --7. The old curiosity shop. --8-9. Barnaby Rudge Master Humphrey's clock and The mystery of Edwin Drood. --10-11. The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit and American notes. --12-13. Dombey and son. --14-15. The personal history of David Copperfield. --16-17. Bleak house. --18-19. Little Dorrit. --20. A tale of two cities. --21. Great expectations. --22-23. Our mutual friend. --24-25. Christmas books Tales and sketches. --26. Hard times and other stories. --27. The uncommercial traveller and Pictures from Italy. --28. Plays poems and miscellanies. --29. A child's history of England; also A holiday romance and other pieces. --30-31. Life letters and speeches of Charles Dickens; with biographical sketches of the principal illustrators of Dicken's works. --32. The Dickens dictionary a key to the plot and characters in the tales of Charles Dickens with copious indexes and bibliography; by Gilbert A. Pierce with additions by William A. Wheeler. New and rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1894] hardcover
87623Bradbury & Evans London 1857. First bound edition: octavo; hardcover half-bound in marbled boards with a gilt spine title on a morocco label blind-stamped spine decorations between four gilt-decorated raised bands and gilt rules; 625pp. all edges dyed red with an engraved frontispiece with loose tissue guard a decorated half-title page and 39 engraved plates. Boards well-rubbed and some wear to the spine head; some wear to the lower board edges; some offset to the plates; and mild scattered foxing to the preliminaries. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1857. hardcover
185071278London 1850. Stor 8vo.1800-talls skinnryggbind med marmorerte dekler. Rebacked med bruk av den gamle ryggstripen. Frontispiece ekstra gravert tittelblad. xiv 1 1 blank 624 2 blanke s. Med 39 plansjer utenom pagineringen. Bradbury & Evans. <br/><br/><em>Eckel s. 75.“The first of Dickens’s big books to be written in the first person and it is looked upon as being largely autobiographicâ€. Ex libris. Hjørnene noe støtte. Materien ren. I sin tid kjøpt hos Damms for kr. 155- ! </em> unknown
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