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1841TB26297Philadlphia: Lea & Blanchard 1841. Very good in gray-green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the front board. An octavo measuring 8 1/4" by 5 1/2" with tanning to the cloth on the spine and around the edges of the boards with a prior owner's book plate on the front paste down and with the last three pages of the text showing a faint water mark at the upper margins with no impact on the illustrations. Without a dust jacket. Unpaginated. The volume is a collection of the illustrated plates by "Phiz" collected from Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby and redrawn by Yeager. 39 engraved plates separated with tissue guards including the frontispiece portrait of Dickens of 40 listed in the contents. Printed by T. K. and P. G. Collins and stereotyped by J. Fagan. Gimbel A43 Lea & Blanchard hardcover books
02749London: Chapman and Hall 1839. First Edition in the Original Cloth<br/>A Very Early Issue Bound From The Original Parts<br/><br/>DICKENS Charles. The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby. With Illustrations by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall 1839. <br/><br/>First edition a very early issue bound from the original parts. With thirty-five of Smith's forty-one first issue internal flaws including all of the major points first state frontispiece and all further plates mostly first state including the first four typically in second state with imprint of Chapman and Hall. <br/><br/>Octavo 8 7/8 x 5 1/4 in; 225 x 133 mm. xvi 624 pp. Forty black and white plates including frontispiece. <br/><br/>Publishers primary binding in dark olive-green fine-diaper grain cloth covers stamped in blind spine lettered in gilt. With the bookplate of the Earl of Aylesford. An unusually bright copy with just the lightest of wear and without any fading to cloth whatsoever. Some light foxing to plates but far less than usually found in this title. Two neat three-quarter inch closed splits to upper joint at head and tail and one short closed split to lower joint at head. <br/><br/>The nicest copy we have ever seen unsophisticated and near fine: better than the famed William E. Self copy which is bumped rubbed and shows distress to the spine Christie's-NY April 2 2008 lot 60. Housed in a full plum pigskin drop-front clamshell box.<br/><br/>With an ALs with original autograph envelope by Dickens to one Thomas Ellis Bramale Esq. dated August 5 1839:<br/><br/>"Sir I have very great pleasure in complying with your request and beg to thank you cordially for the obliging expressions with which it is accompanied. I am Sir Your very obedient servant Charles Dickens."<br/><br/>Nicholas Nickleby was originally published in twenty numbers bound in nineteen monthly parts the last part as a double number from April 1838 through October 1839. The first edition in book form was made up from these parts. "It was the novelist's intention to expose in this story the terrible abuses practiced in the cheap boarding-schools of Yorkshire and in order that he realize their true character he determined to investigate for himself the real facts as to the condition of those notorious seminaries Accordingly at the end of January 1838 he and 'Phiz' started on this memorable journey in bitterly cold weather and visiting several schools in the locality they came into direct contact with the proprietors. One of these was William Shaw the identical schoolmaster who some years previously had been heavily fined for what was represented at the trial as gross maltreatment of his pupils" Kitton Dickens and His Illustrators p. 75. It was Shaw upon whom Dickens based the infamous Squeers. Having made an enemy of his uncle Ralph Nickolas was sent as an usher to Dotheboys Hall where Wackford Squeers starved and maltreated forty students under the pretense of education. "The character of Mrs. Nickleby was largely founded upon that of Dickens's mother. The title character was founded on Dickens's brother-in-law Hanry Burnett a music teacher at Manchester" Hayward The Dickens Encyclopedia p. 115.<br/><br/>"H.K. Browne prepared 39 illustrations for this novel as well as the cover for the monthly parts while the portrait frontispiece was engraved by Finden from a painting by Maclise. Because of the the large monthly circulation of the parts Browne etched as many as four plates in some cases of each illustration and all of them were printed in the initial issue of the parts. Many of the plates from 'Miss Nickleby introduced to her uncle's friends' page 175 onward contain Arabic or Roman numerals which indicate the order in which they were etched. Most of the numerals are located in the lower right corner and occasionally in the left. Hatton and Cleaver state that the numeral for Plate 31 'Mysterious appearance of the gentleman in the small-clothes' p. 487 appears on the front of the mantleshelf.The first state of the frontispiece and the first four illustrations contain the imprint of Chapman and Hall. The first state of the frontispiece always appears in the monthly parts; the first four illustrations were issued with and without the imprint in the parts but the plates without imprints did not appear in the earlier issues of the monthly parts and may therefore be termed 'second states''' Smith I 5.<br/><br/>Smith Part I 5. Eckel p.64. Hatton and Cleaver pp. 131-160. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839 unknown books
35935Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers; 306 Chestnut Street n. d. Later printing ca 1871. Publisher's original morocco-style green cloth with gilt stamped spine & gilt stamped Dickens' bust to front board. Bevelled edges. Slight cock. Light extremity wear to binding with bright gilt. POI dated 1877 to preliminary blank. Unobtrusive dampstain to lower spine/textblock. A VG copy. xi 1 blank 9 - 912 pp. Illustrated after the original illustrations. 12mo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/> T. B. Peterson & Brothers; 306 Chestnut Street hardcover books
18872283.3London: Walter Scott 1887. 1st edition NCBEL III 829. Blue cloth; gilt spine lettering; TEG. VG gilt bright. 166 xxxiii 9 pp. Bibliography after text. Adverts last 8 pages. 8vo. <br/><br/>Large paper edition largely unopened; contains bibliography by Anderson. Walter Scott hardcover books
18872283London: Walter Scott 1887. 1st edition NCBEL III 829. Blue cloth binding. VG cloth dull. 166 xxxiii 9 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/>Small paper edition; contains bibliography by Anderson. Walter Scott hardcover books
1887WRCLIT41252London: Walter Scott 1887. Small octavo. Cloth. First edition. Bookplate ink name light foxing early and late cloth lightly soiled corners and spine ends bumped but a good tight copy. Walter Scott hardcover books
187341499London: Chapman and Hall 1874 1873 1874. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Vol. 1 1812-1842; Vol. 2 1842-1852; Vol. 3 1852-1870. London: Chapman and Hall 1874 1873 1874. 3 vols. Envelope addressed to the Garrick Club signed by subject Dickens laid onto front free endpaper. Extra illustrated with the inclusion of 137 engravings not normally included. xvii 398 6; xx 464; xv 552 pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Full tan calf. 5 raised bands gilt ruled and elaborately tooled devices in compartments with contrasting leather titles in gilt; all volumes professionally rebacked with original spines laid on; all boards and turn-ins gilt ruled with gilt corner devices; all top edges gilt; fore and bottoms edges untrimmed with light to moderate foxing; minor light foxing scattered through text. A nice and unique set. The Garrick Club was instituted for the general patronage of drama; for the purpose of combining the use of a Club on economic principles with the advantages of a literary society; for bringing together supporters of drama; and for the formation of a theatrical library with works on costume. Very good/No dust jacket. Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
18703210.5Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers No. 306 Chestnut Street 1870. 1st edition NCBEL III 828. Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt stamping including bust of Dickens to spine. Gilt bright. Modest shelfwear. Bookplate. Prior owner signature to t.p. A VG - VG volume. 15 - 484 6 14 6 pp. The 6 page "Controversy" folows text with 18 pages of adverts following. Last leaf blank. Frontispiece of Dickens. Crown 8vo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>The "Controversy" addresses the issue of Dickens' remuneration from American publishing houses. T. B. Peterson & Brothers, No. 306 Chestnut Street hardcover books
34267n. p. n. d. 1st edition Gimbel H428. Not in NCBEL. Early 20th C. 3/4 green morocco binding with marbled paper boards & eps. TEG. Grey paper wrappers printed in red bound-in. Spine sunned to a golden brown. A handsome VG copy of an uncommon Dickens biography. 46 2 blank pp. Binder's blanks. 8vo. <br/><br/>Text from that of the DNB ca 1888 . Later ca 1900 included with Marzails' LIFE Of CHARLES DICKENS Philadelphia: John D. Morris n. d. Cf. Gimbel H313 & VanderPoel E411. hardcover books
191745295London: Published by the Eagle and British Dominions Insurance Co. Ltd 1917. 1st Edition. Original publisher's flexible blue leather binding with elaborate gilt stamping. TEG. Pictorial eps. Ribbon page marker. Slight lean. Modest wear. Bit of edge foxing. Withal an attractive VG copy. xi 1 blank 297 3 pp. Frontispiece in colour by E. M. Ward; many full-page illustrations text illustrations facsimilies etc by E. Coffin. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/>Chapter 13 pp. 118 - 124 address the Eagle policy in favor of Mr. Dickens. Published by the Eagle and British Dominions Insurance Co. Ltd hardcover books
18899692London: W. H. Allen & Co 1889. 1st edition. Original maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. VG extremity wear/slt lean. 284 pp. Small 8vo. <br/><br/>Chapter 13 relates Dickens' influence. W. H. Allen & Co hardcover books
1861308427N.p. London 1861. Lithographic facsimile printing of the original autograph letter. Two pages printed in blue-black ink on laid paper. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Old fold. Lithographic facsimile printing of the original autograph letter. Two pages printed in blue-black ink on laid paper. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Uncommon printed facsimile of this notable letter from Charles Dickens writing as the editor of All the Year Round to Rev. Hughes of St Gallgo's Church whose heroic efforts at the time of the wreck of the Royal Charter off the coast of Anglesey in August 1859 inspired Dickens to write the "little article" mentioned here published in All the Year Round for 28 January and subsequently adapted as the first chapter of The Uncommercial Traveller. The invitation extended by Dickens to the minister and his family is poignant as the strain of the exertions contributed to Hughes' untimely death on 4 February 1862.<br/><br/>In the British Academy/Pilgrim Edition of Dickens' letters the original letter is recorded as in the collection of Mrs. A.K. Frazer; it is further noted that "facsimiles of this letter were sold by Hughes to provide a monument now in Llanallgo Church to those drowned in the Royal Charter." This allows a narrow dating to 1860 or 1861. No copies of this facsimile are recorded in the Gimbel collection in other major Dickens holdings or in OCLC.<br/><br/>The facsimile reproduces Dickens' Office of All the Year Round letterhead in monochrome slightly reduced and the text is as follows:<br/><br/>My Dear Mr Hughes <br/>You will receive from my printer's office by this same post a Proof of the little article I have written on the subject of my late visit. I am under the necessity of asking you to send it back to W. Wills here by return of post. For although a fortnight will elapse before it is published the mechanical necessities of this Journal and its simultaneous publication in England and America render its going to press at once imperative.<br/>I doubt whether I am quite right respecting the number of the drowned buried in your churchyard and the greatest number that lay in the church at one time. Will you do me the favour to correct me on those points And if you should observe any similar inaccuracy will you do me the additional kindness to mark it I trust that there is nothing in the article that you or your household will find displeasing. I have written it out of the honest convictions of my heart and in the hope that it will at least soften the distress of many people from whom you have not yet heard. It says for me all that I should otherwise have attempted to say in this note and merely strives to express what any visitor to you must surely feel. <br/>My daughters have taken a great interest in all I have told them and particularly in Mrs Hughes's idea of coming to London in the summer. They earnestly beg me to assure her and you that they hope to know you both very well and that it will be an uncommon gratification to them if you will come and see us down at my Kentish house on the top of Shakespeare's Gad's Hill which is little more than an hour's railway ride from town. <br/>I beg to present my true regard to the ladies of your house and to your brother and to assure you of the hearty esteem and respect with which I am Very faithfully yours <br/>Charles Dickens. <br/>This same post will also bring you the documents you also lent me returned with thanks. The Letters of Charles Dickens British Academy/Pilgrim Edition Vol. 9: 1859-1861 pp. 196-7 unknown books
1857011323Bradbury and Evans 1857. Book. Fine. Three-Quarter Leather. 1st Edition. All First Edition Points.3/4 Brown Leather with Marble Boards.Beautiful Copy. White Pages little foxing. Gorgeous Copy. Bradbury and Evans Hardcover books
1857140940186London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First Edition. Very Good. First edition in the original parts. Twenty issues bound into 19 parts as issued. First issue using the character name "Riguard" in No. XV; errata slip in XVI correcting the errors. Plates 21 and 22 in No. 11 are probably the more detailed plates mentioned in Hatton & Cleaver. All slips and ad pages present with two exceptions: Green The Train ad slip missing in Part I; no "Commercial Works for 1856" slip in II. Ads in Parts 19 & 20 differ from Hatton and Cleaver no Little Dorrit advertiser but instead front ads are "Nellie of Truro" 2 pp. Gilbert's works 4 pp. Norton's Camomile Pills 4 pp.; rear ads are blue "Stamped in Nature's Mould" 4 pp with 4 pp. orange slip for Lett's Skeleton Almanacs inside Royal Insurance Company 2 pp. and 8 pp. Virtue Hall and Virtue ads. Housed in a custom morocco and cloth case by Bayntun which is damaged on the bottom panel. Very Good overall. Almost imperceptible restoration to spines minor soiling and light wear; No. I spine is cracked though holding; name written on the front cover of two parts. Pencil correction in margin to error in No. 15 easily erasable. The very first appearance in serialized parts of Dickens' satire of the British class system. Bradbury and Evans unknown books
1857295638London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrations by H.K. Browne. 625pp. Thick 8vo old calf re-backed in modern tan leather with leather spine label. London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First Edition.<br/><br/> First issue with the 3 line errata on p. xivsignature B2 on p. 371 and "Rigaud" for "Blandois". Bound in at the end are all the front and back blue printed wrappers from the serial edition as well as most of the trade ads. The plates are browned at the edges but not foxed.<br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans unknown books
1857314942London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First edition in original monthly parts first issue part XV with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" without errata in part XVI. In the original 19/20 monthly parts. 40 etched plates by H.K. Browne "Phiz". 8vo. Original printed blue wrappers designed by Phiz. Some minor soiling to wrappers but a nice copy. Housed in half-morocco pull-off case. Browne H.K. First edition in original monthly parts first issue part XV with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" without errata in part XVI. In the original 19/20 monthly parts. 40 etched plates by H.K. Browne "Phiz". 8vo. Little Dorrit in Parts. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 307- 330 Bradbury and Evans unknown books
1863WRCLIT82274London: Chapman & Hall 1863. Large thick octavo. Green cloth lettered in gilt decorated in blind. Frontis engraved title and plates including eight 'dark' plates by H.K. Browne. Ink name on front free endsheet light rubbing a couple of signatures proud spine a shade sunned a couple small nicks at toe of spine but an unusually good copy. Later impression in book form though with some of the errors of the first printing as yet uncorrected. The original 1857 printing was the last major Dickens title to be published by Bradbury & Evans and their imprint still appears on the verso of the printed title and at the base of the last page of text in this copy. The binding on this copy is comparable to the type of cloth and stamping characteristic of the primary binding of DOMBEY AND SON 1848 SMITH 12 ref. Chapman & Hall hardcover 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
185700007115London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 7 vi-xiv 1 2-625 5 pp. Half bound in contemporary green leather over marbled boards spine with 4 raised bands and gilt lettering and decorations light yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated by an engraved frontispiece and vignette titlepage along with 38 additional plates by H.K. Browne 'Phiz'. All is as called for in Smith including signature 2B2 printed as B2. Smith I 12; Gimbel A 141. A bit of scattered foxing on the plates and preliminary matter but most leaves and plates are quite clean; small hairline crack to the bottom of the front joint otherwise very attractive and sound. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books
1857021108London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First Edition. Octavo. First state in two volumes with the tipped in errata at page 467 of volume two referring to the word "Rigaud" for "Blandois" which found in the present volume eight times and with signature mark B2 for 2B2B bound from the original parts stab marks present In two volumes320 324-625pp. illustrated by H.K. Browne. Text mostly clean with some darkening or foxing to plates bound in contemporary 3/4 tan calf over marbled paper covered boards raised bands with compartments decorated in gilt red and black contrasting labels gilt brown endpapers light chipping to spine ends. A very nice set. Bradbury and Evans unknown books
1857243110London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrations by H.K. Browne. 625pp. 19th century calf backed marbled boards raised bands; spine label. London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First Edition.<br/><br/> First issue with the 3 line errata on p. xivsignature B2 on p. 371. In the places where "Rigaud" appears instead of "Blandois" the original owner has crossed out the wrong name and entered the correct one in a neat hand. The plates are very clean except for the engraved half-title which has some offset from the frontispiece.<br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans unknown books
1857243109London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First. hardcover. near fine. Illustrations by H.K. Browne. 625pp. early 20th century 3/4 red morocco a.e.g. by Morrell. London: Bradbury & Evans 1857. First Edition.<br/><br/> First issue with the 3 line errata on p. xivsignature B2 on p. 371 and "Rigaud" substituted for "Blandois". The plates are very clean except for the engraved half-title which has some offset from the frontispiece. Very shallow chip at the top of the spine.<br/><br/> Bradbury & Evans unknown books
1857120731857. Illustrated Edition. Two Volumes Complete in One. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson n.d. 1857. Original half calf with marbled boards endpapers and page edges. First American illustrated octavo edition. The first Peterson volume of LITTLE DORRIT in fact the first in book form anywhere was Vol I of the two-volume duodecimo edition published in November 1856 during serialization; in June 1857 once serialization was complete Peterson quickly published the novel in numerous duodecimo including Vol II of the above and octavo formats. One octavo double-column format consists of 317 pages of text -- issued first without illustrations in wrappers or in cloth and soon thereafter with plates inserted. Another octavo format this one has 376 pages of text with the illustrations integrated into the text some sideways. This copy is in contemporary half calf with marbled boards page edges and endpapers. Peterson advertised that his octavo editions of Dickens were available to buyers in four different bindings of half calf in addition to cloth and we have seen numerous volumes in this exact binding -- leading us to believe that this is a publisher's original binding. Stab-holes are evident in the gutter of all leaves -- possibly indicating that it was originally bound up by Peterson in wrappers then put into his standard half calf. Condition is very good with minor rubbing at the extremities. See Podeschi D25. unknown books
185718981London: Bradbury and Evans 1857. First edition. Hardcover. 19th century half red calf and marbled boards matching marble endpapers and edges. Very good. H.K. Browne. 625 pages 22 x 15 cm. First edition in book form first issue with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pp.469-474 but without the additional 9-line errata. Etched frontispiece vignette title page and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne Phiz. ECKEL pp. 82-85. SMITH I:12. Bound by Smyth Liverpool: raised bands spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs green leather spine label printed in gilt Nicholas Robinson bookplate and signature on title; intermittent scattered foxing mostly marginal heavier first few and last leaves solid and tight binding. Bradbury and Evans hardcover books
1857186488London: Bradbury and Evans 11 Bouverie Street 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition with several first issue points per Smith. Octavo. pp. i-v vi-xiv 1 2-625 626 blank. Illustrated with 40 engraved plates by H.K. Browne including the frontispiece and vignette title-page. Bound in contemporary half-calf and marbled paper over boards gilt spine with black titling label marbled endpapers. Contemporary bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: "John Davison . Alnwick". Small remnant of a bookplate removed and later owner's name in ink on the verso of the front free endpaper some scuffing to the marbled paper on both boards scattered foxing mostly to the first two engraved plates frontispiece and title very good. Smith Part 1:12. Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street hardcover books
