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‎[Dickens, Charles] Yamamoto, Litt D, Tadao‎

‎GROWTH AND SYSTEM OF THE LANGUAGE OF DICKENS; An Introduction to A Dickens Lexicon / Revised Edition‎

‎Tokyo: Kansai University Press 1952. Revised Edition. Cloth. Very Good/None. 8vo original blue-black cloth with gilt lettering on spine ii 508 pages 8 Supplementary Notes 4 Corrections 70 Index of Names and Subjects or 592 pages overall. Very Scarce title in the preferred and learned revision. Copy is a bit worn externally but internally clean bright and tight. Kansai University Press hardcover‎

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‎[Dickens, Charles]‎

‎Household words. A weekly journal‎

‎New York: G. P. Putnam and others see below 1850. First American edition 19 volumes 8vo text in double column within ruled borders; a fine set in contemporary half blue polished calf over marbled boards red morocco labels on gilt-decorated spines. Household Words was considerably more popular in England than America and its publishing history in America is "almost absolutely dark as is the whole subject of periodical printing and 'arrangements' . The 1850's were years of copyright agitation in America and certainly no legally protective arrangements were possible to the English publishers before the journal was discontinued in 1859. And it is not surprising that the course of Household Words was not so brilliant in America as was that of its successor All the Year Round.It was partially a local work and not quite so interesting to an America as to an English reader; it had changed publishers too often; there was no legitimate arrangement between the English proprietors and the American publishers; it was sold at too high a price; it had been published by inexperienced people and therefore had not received proper publicity and promotion; and its lack of pictorial illustration made it unpopular with the masses" Buckler William E. "'Household Words' in America" in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America vol. 45 pp. 160-66. While the first volume was published by Putnam volumes 2 and 3 were printed from English plates and have a London imprint; those publishing the remaining volumes included in order McElrath & Lord; Angell Engel & Hewitt McElrath & Barker; T. C. McElrath & Co.; J. A. Dix; Dix & Edwards; Dix Edwards & Co.; Miller & Curtis; James Miller; Jansen & Co.; and Frederick A. Brady. Complete sets of this American piracy in a matching contemporary binding are uncommon. G. P. Putnam [and others, see below] unknown‎

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‎[Dickens, Charles; Legends] Procter Adelaide Anne‎

‎LEGENDS AND LYRICS With and Introduction by Charles Dickens.‎

‎London: George Bell and Sons York Street Covent Garden 1875. A New Edition. Illustrated throughout with engravings by Harral from the art of Dobson Palmer John Tenniel Thomas. Fröhlich Millais DuMaurier Burton Watson Keene Carrick Edwards and Morton. Large 8vo beautifully bound in full green morocco the upper and lower covers emblazoned with full gilt tooling comprised of a series of elaborately tooled and rolled gilt panels corner tooled decorations floral designs gilt fillet border lines gilt all enclosing a large central gilt panel with floral devices at each edge the spine with raised bands the compartments of the spine multi-ruled in gilt and with central gilt ornamental tooling one compartment lettered in gilt all edges gilt marbled end-leaves gilt ruled turnovers. xxiv 330 pp. A very fine copy indeed the binding and text-block and illustrations all beautifully preserved and in excellent condition. WITH INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES DICKENS. A book reprinted many times through the years Dickens praised the author's poetry for its beauty and sensitivity and celebrated the fact that Ms. Procter was well versed in the classics and in reading having consumed over the course of her life a prodigious amount of literature. Dickens considered her poetry to be filled with humour and cheerfulness. He considered that she had an unusual 'vivacity and that she was unconstrained and unaffected about her productions as she was generous with her pecuniary results.' George Bell, and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden hardcover‎

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‎[DICKENS, Charles] Editors: Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson and Nina Burgis‎

‎Letters of Charles Dickens. The Pilgrim Edition. Volume 3. Three 1842-1843.‎

‎Oxford: Clarendon Press Oxford University Press 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Publisher's red cloth in DJ. Edgeworn jacket with a few tears price-clipped. Rear endpaper torn but generally speaking a solid copy. <br/><br/> Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press hardcover‎

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‎[DICKENS, Charles].‎

‎Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi.‎

‎London Richard Bentley 1838. . First edition first impression; 2 volumes; 8vo 20 x 13 8 x 5 in; armorial bookplate to front pastedown of each vol. numerous illustrations by George Cruickshank with ads. to end of vol. I; early half morocco green cloth boards gilt spine with raised bands top edge gilt spine faded very minor areas of wear to extremities original pink cloth and spine bound in; xix 3 263 1 36; xix 3 288pp a very good set.<br /> The first edition of the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi edited by Charles Dickens under the pseudonym 'Boz' with introductory and concluding chapters by the author and illustrations by the noted caricaturist George Cruikshank 1792-1878. <br /><br />Grimaldi d.1837 a comic actor and pantomimist regularly performed at the Sadler's Wells theatre and counted Lord Byron among his patrons. He is best-known today for first donning the white face paint and garish costume archetypal of the modern clown.<br /> London, Richard Bentley, 1838. hardcover‎

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‎[Dickens, Charles]‎

‎Nell and Her Grandfather. Told from Charles Dickens‘s «The Old Curiosity Shoop».‎

‎London Thomas Nelson 1923. Kl.8° 154 S. 6 farb. Taf. OLwd. Kapitale etw. bestossen Vs. gebräunt sonst tadellos. Erstausgabe. 010 London, Thomas Nelson, 1923 unknown‎

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‎[Dickens, Charles] Boz‎

‎Oliver Twist; or The Parish Boy's Progress in 3 vols.‎

‎London: Richard Bentley 1838. First edition. Near Fine. First issue with the "Boz" title-pages in each volume and the "Fireside" plate facing p. 313 in volume three the "Church" plate also bound in facing p. 315. Complete with the half-titles in volumes one and two and the correct ads at the end of volume one and the beginning of volume three. A lovely Near Fine set unusually clean and fresh throughout with just a bit of foxing and toning to some of the plates. Elegantly bound in full green morocco. Spines with raised bands and gilt stamping. Spines sunned with patches of sunning to lower board of voume three. Top edge gilt and gilt turn-ins. Marbled endpapers with nineteenth-century bookplate to upper pastedowns and twentieth-century bookplate to upper free endpapers. Small ink gift inscription dated 1913 to volume one and a small sticker from a bookseller or previous owner to preliminary blank of volume two. An excellent copy of one of Dickens' most famous works.<br /> <br /> Oliver Twist Dickens' second novel is a dark and biting work but one that is balanced with Oliver's indefatigable innocence and charm. Often cited as the first Victorian novel to feature a child protagonist it was developed as a social commentary and a call for improving the conditions of London's destitute and orphan children. In recent scholarship critics have noted that Dickens also sought to find balance as many of his contemporaries did between Darwin's theories about human nature and those from the Christian tradition; as the characters make their way through a seemingly uncaring world they are ultimately drawn back to reward or retribution based on their individual level of goodness. The story was immensely successful both as a novel filled with memorable characters and also as a work prompting much-needed social reform. Today it remains high within the pantheon of Victorian literature and is a work that has been successfully adapted to both the stage and screen.<br /> <br /> For this novel Dickens's first in the standard three-volume form Bentley divided the printing task between two firms: volume one was printed by Samuel Bentley; volume two format by Whiting; and volume three in part by both Whiting and Bentley. The triple-decker publication date was November 9 1839; within a week at Dickens's insistence the title-pages were changed to include his name and the "Fireside" plate was replaced with the "Church" version. The present set is from the first issue with the original "Boz" titles and the "Fireside" plate.<br /> <br /> Smith I 4. Near Fine. Richard Bentley unknown‎

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‎[Dickens, Charles]‎

‎Oliver Twist; or the parish boy's progress. By "Boz.‎

‎London: Richard Bentley 1838. First edition first issue with "Boz" listed as the author and with the "Fireside" plate in vol. III; 3 volumes 8vo; 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank; the binding on this copy has the Bentley imprint on the base of the spines thought by Carter to be later than the binding without the Bentley imprint although Smith found no "consistent association"; this copy does not contain the leaf listing the illustrations after the title leaf in the first volume but does contain the half-titles in volumes I and II; and the text exhibits all the textual flaws outlined by Smith; also with the required leaves of ads at the back of volume I and the single leaf of ads preceding the title in vol. III. Excessive bookseller's notes in pencil on front endpapers and pastedowns occasional light foxing some darkening of the plates in the margins some cracking and restoration to the rear joint on volume I all three volumes rubbed and worn the gilt lettering on spine a bit dull but the bindings are sound and with no appreciable cracking at the spine ends. Carter Binding Variants p. 107 and More Binding Variants p. 7; Sadlier 696; Smith I 4; Wolff 1808. Richard Bentley unknown‎

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‎[DICKENS, Charles].‎

‎Oliver Twist; or The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz".‎

‎London: Richard Bentley 1838. First edition first issue. With the 24 engraved plates by George Cruikshank all a little spotted as usual. 3 volumes. Large 12mo and 8vo. with the terminal 2 leaves of advertisements in Vol. I and the initial advertisement leaf in vol. 3 half-titles present in vols 1 and 2 not called for in volume 3 original reddish-brown publisher’s cloth vol. 1 skilfully recased variant state binding with “London/ Bentley†at the foot of the spines according to Smith not a point of any significance spines lettered in gilt arabesque blind-stamps to sides. Spines faded slight chipping to spine ends a little marking to sides but generally a very good copy and unusually in the original cloth.The first issue with the “Boz†title-pages and the final “fireside†plate. After publication Dickens objected to both and the second edition has his name author on the titles and the final plate was substituted by the “Church†plate. The printing was shared between two or maybe three printers hence volumes 1 & 3 are in large 12mo format and volume 2 in 8vo.<br>Oliver Twist first appeared in Bentley’s “Miscellany†from February 1837 to April 1839.<br>In book form it constitutes Dickens’s first novel to be published in the standard three-decker format of the day.<br>Provenance: Vols 2 & 3 have the understated “Sudeley†provenance at the head of the titles.Smith 4; Eckel pp. 51-56 First edition first issue with “Boz†titles and the fireside plate; in original cloth Richard Bentley hardcover‎

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‎[DICKENS, Charles]‎

‎Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club‎

‎1836. DICKENS Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall April 1836 - November 1837. 20 parts in 19 8vo. Engraved frontispiece engraved vignette title-page and 41 engraved plates by or after R. Seymour R.W. Buss and Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". Original printed blue-green pictorial wrappers; quarter morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Near fine. First edition in original monthly parts of Dickens's first novel mixed issue with later issues of wrappers on parts 1-11 wrappers of each part dated 1836 the text and plates in mixed states. The early numbers are later issues without the addresses and ads but Part 3 does have a copy of the address laid in and with the simplified illustrator credits on the wrappers. The suppressed Buss plates appear in Part 3; most of the later numbers have their ads. The wrappers for Parts 1 2 4-9 and 11 are from the May 1837 printing though front and back wrappers do not agree in Parts 1 and 9. The wrappers for Part 3 are from the January 1837 printing. Parts 12-19/20 are first issue in all respects with the following exceptions: Part 12 contains one extra front slip Fox's Book of Martyrs and "Mechi's Catalogue" in this part contains only the wrappers and the first internal leaf; Part 13 lacks the rare "Pigot's Views" insert; Part 14 lacks one rear ad leaf. unknown‎

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‎[DICKENS, Charles] EMERSON, FITCH & CO‎

‎Rich Gold Pen and Pencil of Elegant Workmanship Given as a Premium. Office of the "U.S. Journal" Dickens' "All the Year Round" "U.S. Patent Exchange" Etc.‎

‎New York:: Emerson Fitch & Co. September 1st 1860. First edition. with original addressed envelope. Lightly creased where folded; otherwise fine. 10 x 8 inches. Subscription agents are offered various premiums at great length on illustrated letterhead in hopes of securing 30000 new subscribers to "The brilliant magazine by Charles Dickens" and the U. S. Journal. Emerson Fitch & Co., unknown‎

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‎[Dickens, Charles]‎

‎Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1870. 8vo.Illustrated. viii 526 pp. Half red morocco over marbled boards with raised bands gilt lettering and ruling to the spine. Endpapers and all edges marbled. With forty illustrations by George Cruishank. Rubbing to the spine and boards. Some foxing and markings to the leaves and a faint pencil ownership inscription to the first free endpaper dated 1871. Binding firm. New edition complete of Dickens's first novel containing sketches of London scenes and people from various short peices originally published in periodicals in the 1830s. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1870. Chapman and Hall 1870 unknown‎

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‎[DICKENS, Charles] [CRUIKSHANK, George]‎

‎Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People.‎

‎Philadelphia:: Lea & Blanchard 1839. New Edition Complete. original cloth-backed plain boards with printed paper label on spine. Tiny ink numerals on endsheets; old ink ownership signature; some dampstaining to text throughout; one gathering partly sprung; spine label tanned and rubbed with several tiny chips. 8vo. With two engravings by Cruikshank which are free from the dampstaining that affects most of the text. Lacking the illustrated half-title page. Text in double columns. Lea & Blanchard, hardcover‎

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‎[DICKENS, Charles, attributed]. "QUIZ" [CASWALL, Edward, author]. PHIZ [BROWNE, HK, illustrator] H K‎

‎Sketches of Young Ladies: In which these interesting members of the animal kingdom are classified according to their several instincts habits and general charcteristics. By "Quiz.".‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1837. Second edition. Twelvemo. viii 80 pp. With engraved frontispiece and five engraved illustrations by Phiz. Publisher’s printed green boards front board with 'Phiz' illustration of three young ladies ads on rear pale yellow endpapers. Spine discolored and with minor loss to extremities and a sliver of the paper from the upper spine has fallen away Tasteful morocco booklabel. Overall an exceptionally clean copy in the original fragile binding which remains very tight and presentable. Wrongly attributed to Charles Dickens who in fact wrote a repost to Caswall's work entitled Sketches of Young Gentlemen in 1838 Chapman and Hall hardcover‎

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‎[Dickens, Charles]‎

‎Sunday Under Three Heads. As It Is; As Sabbath Bills Would Make It; As It Might Be Made. By Timothy Sparks‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1884. Facsimile edition one of three printed on vellum. Woodcut portrait vignettes on half-title and title-page woodcut frontispiece and two plates with blank vellum guards by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". iv v i 49 4 blank 1 ads pp. 4to. Contemporary three-quarter red morocco. Joints repaired flaw in margin of one leaf. Facsimile edition one of three printed on vellum. Woodcut portrait vignettes on half-title and title-page woodcut frontispiece and two plates with blank vellum guards by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". iv v i 49 4 blank 1 ads pp. 4to. Facsimile edition printed on vellum according to Gimbel "one of only three copies that were printed on vellum." Plain paper copies were issued in wrappers with the text and imprint: "A Reproduction in Exact Fac-simile of the Excessively Rare Original. London: J.W. Jarvis 28 King William Street Strand 1884." As with the Gimbel vellum copy this copy is rebound and without wrappers. The Gimbel catalogue identifies copies with and without 4 leaves of front- and end-matter containing an introduction though to be by T.J. Wise and Jarvis ads and notes "another impression" with the heading "Sunday Under Three Heads" on p. 35. The present copy is without the the introduction and ads though the original Chapman and Hall ads are reproduced at the end and has the heading on p. 35.<br /> Sunday Under Three Heads published under the pseudonym Timothy Sparks was "a pamphlet directed against the Sunday Observance Billl an Evangelical measure which would have severly curtailed the Sunday amusements of the labouring and middle classes" Ackroyd p. 185. Gimbel B31 cf. 8th copy. Provenance: Lewis A. Bird bookplate Chapman and Hall unknown‎

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‎[DICKENS, Charles, parody]. MORNA [pseudonym of Thomas O'KEEFE]‎

‎The Battle of London Life; or Boz and His Secretary. With Six Designs on Stone by George Sala.‎

‎London: George Peirce 1849. First edition. Octavo. iv 160 pp. Frontispiece and 5 full-page illustrations by George Sala vignettes in text. Contemporary full tan calf gilt. Original pictorial wrappers bound in along with a leaf from the "Pictorial Times" containing a contemporary portrait of Dickens. Covers detached. A very clean copy.A spoof Dickens's Battle of Life the tale describes the adventures of "Boz" and his secretary Mr. Phillipson. Gimbel H333. George Peirce unknown‎

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‎[DICKENS, Charles] ECKEL, John C‎

‎The First Editions of Charles Dickens: Their Points and Values SIGNED DICKENS and Eckel‎

‎Limited edition #372 of 750 copies numbered by the author. Leatherette 8vo top edge gilt xvi 272 6 pp frontispiece and 28 plates. Approximately 100 entries. Leatherette 8vo top edge gilt xvi 272 6 pp frontispiece and 28 plates. A revised and enlarged edition of Eckel's 1913 work "The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and their Values." A Bibliography".v Approximately 100 entries. A Eckel provides a great deal of bibliographic detail for identification of true first editions. According to Dickens scholar Duane DeVries: "Eckel's work still stands despite criticism of its writing style and its errors as the standard modern bibliography of Dickens's writings though one directed more toward collectors than scholars.One can easily see why the volume is both praised and criticized. On the one hand it provides far more information about the works it considers than any previous bibliography had and it covers the entire range of Dickens's works from the major novels to the smallest contribution to Household Words with information on advertisements in the monthly parts of all the serialized novels and a collation of the advertisements and information on the inside and outside of the back wrappers. On the other hand the information provided a not always full not always accurate and not always consistent from one work to the next." Accompanying the book is a 2-page handwritten note from Eckel explaining how he reached certain conclusions in the book. Plus additional bibliographic data on Dickens' first editions esp A Christmas Carol. Book #Pv2211. $575. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand history and science. Maggs Bros hardcover‎

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‎[Dickens, Charles (contributor)]‎

‎The Library of Fiction or Family Story-Teller in 2 vols.‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First edition. First edition in book form first issue with title-page to Vol. I dated 1836. Two octavo volumes 8 1/8 x 5 1/8 inches; 206 x 130 mm. iii-vviviiviii 12-384; vi 350. Twenty-eight engraved plates by various artists including Robert Seymour and Robert William Buss. Publisher's dark green bead-grain cloth over boards covers with arabesque design stamped in blind spines lettered in gilt all edges uncut coated yellow end-papers. Covers of volume I with some damp-staining expertly rebacked with original spine laid down; covers of volume II with joints expertly repaired and end-papers renewed with matching paper. With the bookplate of Eric S. Quayle on front paste-down of volume I. Tipped in at the end is a mid-twentieth century typed booksellers description G.F. Sims of Hurst Reading England of the book. The plates and text quite clean and relatively free from the usual foxing. An excellent set of the scarce first issue from the library of the celebrated collector and bibliographer Eric Quayle. Housed in an early twentieth century olive green morocco over green cloth board slipcase with central divider. Two spines with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments.<br /> <br /> "The peculiar purpose of the 'Library of Fiction' is to put is readers in possession at a moderate price of a series of Original Tales and Sketches all carefully selected from among a host of candidates; and many of them written by Authors of the very loftiest pretensions in the field of imaginative composition" publisher's "Address" Volume I. Contains two early pieces by Dickens in Volume I both attributed to "Boz" and printed in the first and second series respectively of Sketches by Boz: "The Tuggs's at Ramsgate" pages 1-18 with two plates engraved by Landells after Robert Seymour the first illustrator of Pickwick; and "A Little Talk About Spring and Sweeps" pages 113-119 with one plate by J. Jackson after R.W. Buss Pickwick's second illustrator. <br /> <br /> "Dickens' first article in the first number of The Library of Fiction "The Tuggses at Ramsgate" Vol. I pp. 1-18 was published on the selfsame day as the first number of the Pickwick Papers: 31 March 1836. Like Pickwick the story is set partly in and partly outside London and involves common London types: the fatuous nouveau riche Tuggses the mercenary Waterses and various impertinent and whimsical carriage drivers and land." Philip V. Allingham Victorian Web. "Dickens' other article in the Library of Fiction "A Little Talk About Spring and Sweeps" Vol. I pp. 113-119 was first published in May 1836. It sets out to depict the traditional spring celebrations in the streets that Boz remembers so well from his childhood. These festivities in the shape of spontaneous street performances and merry dances of young sweeps have by now deteriorated into a fake and shabby charade that has nothing authentic about it. Boz laments the fact that nowadays the dancers are no longer real child sweeps but actors who produce a contrived and ungainly performance. Boz's description of the celebrations now and in the past is interrupted by a lengthy digression into the biographies and careers of certain young chimney sweeps the account of whose mysterious original introduces an aura of imaginative speculation into the sketch" Dickens and the Imagined Child.<br /> <br /> Originally issued in fourteen monthly parts from April 1836-May 1837 with two additional parts issued in June and July 1837. Rare in the original cloth neither Sadleir nor Wolff had examples in the cloth.<br /> <br /> Eckel pp. 137-9. Gimbel E122. Chapman and Hall unknown‎

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‎[DICKENS, Charles]. FORSTER, John‎

‎The Life of Charles Dickens‎

‎Boston Estes and Lauriat ca. 1874. 1874. First American edition. 8vo. 39 b/w illustrations including portraits and facsimiles. Bibliographical references. Full gilt stamped green morocco by the Monastery Bindery dated 1905 gilt stamped inner dentelles matching green silk endpapers t.e.g. Very good-fine. 3 volumes complete. One of the first biographies of Dickens first issued in England in 3 volumes 1872-74. Number 209 of 1000 numbered sets. Gilt stamped dedication on inner dentelles of Volume I reads: "Stanley and Katharine" / "Mother Christmas 1905." With an ALS signed "S.M." detailing the gift laid in loose. Printed by the University Press/John Wilson Cambridge. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boston, Estes and Lauriat [ca. 1874]. hardcover‎

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‎[DICKENS, Charles; THACKERAY, William Makepeace] Cruikshank, George (illus)‎

‎The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman‎

‎London: Charles Tilt 1839. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12 mo. Green flexible cloth with Cruikshank illustration on cover in gilt. Housed in a very attractive custom slipcase with hand-colored borders after Cruikshank and inset panel on upper and lower covers of embroidered material. Date of slipcase not known. <br/><br/> Charles Tilt hardcover‎

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‎[Dickens, Charles] Ward, H Snowden & Catharine Weed Barnes Ward‎

‎THE REAL DICKENS LAND; and an Outline of Dickens' Life‎

‎London: Chapman & Hall 1904. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. Very Good . Photographs. 4to ~10" x 8" maroon cloth with gold lettering and gilt stamped cathedral on cover; profusely illustrated with photographs many tissue guards & engraved frontispiece of Dickens; 240 pages. An exceptional survey of sites associated with the author Charles Dickens with copious B&W photographs. This is a handsome and heavy book with a study binding and text-block with some rubbing to extremities and a 1" "clean" split to the lower gutter of the front cover. Small Ink "$2.50" on top corner of front pastedown. This outlines Dicken's Life and traces his footsteps around London and England as well as sites that appear in his novls. Chapman & Hall hardcover‎

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‎[Dickens, Charles]‎

‎The Tuggs's at Ramsgate." In: THE TUGGS'S AT RAMSGATE by "Boz.‎

‎1837. Together with Other Tales by Distinguished Writers. Philadelphia: Carey Lea & Blanchard 1837. Original light grey-green boards with red cloth spine and printed label.<br/> <br/> First American Edition being a volume in the "Library of Fiction" limited to 1000 copies issued in January 1837. The volume consists of the title tale by Dickens followed by nine other tales by other writers. This is the only one of "Boz"'s tales that having appeared in a British periodical did not then appear in one of the two book series of SKETCHES BY BOZ see Smith I p. 15 note 2. Instead it appeared in the British "Library of Fiction" in April 1836 and was not included in SKETCHES BY BOZ until that title was issued in monthly parts Nov 1837 through June 1839. In America Carey Lea & Blanchard published SKETCHES BY BOZ second series a month or two after this -- not including "Tuggs's" -- and then combined "Tuggs's" into a reprint of that volume in June of the same year. This is a good-plus copy general soil and edge-wear notably to the rear joint label rubbed but still legible half of rear free endpaper missing. This is acceptable condition for a book that is so scarce in its original binding -- as these 1830s Philadelphia volumes were bound up using extremely delicate cheap materials. Podeschi Yale B1; Wilkins p. 11 reference to the "Select Library of Fiction". Housed in a clamshell case with leather label. unknown‎

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‎[Dickens] Podeschi, John B‎

‎Dickens and Dickensiana: A Catalogue of the Richard Gimbel Collection in the Yale Univ. Library‎

‎Yale Univ. Library 1980 1980. Hardcover. Used-Like New. Cloth no d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else bright clean copy. Yale Univ. Library, 1980 hardcover‎

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‎[DICKENS] COVENY, Christopher‎

‎Twenty Scenes from the Works of Dickens designed and etched by Christopher Coveny‎

‎Sydney: Thomas H. Feilding 1883. Cloth sides of the binding scuffed and marked otherwise fine with the text and plates clean and crisp. Quarto etched additional title-page and 21 etched plates plate 7 present in two forms as noted in the Preface; publisher's half roan. <p><p>First edition and quite rare: the first purely artistic suite of etchings produced in Australia. Excellent impressions well inked on thick paper they have a real charm and vitalilty.</p> <p>Coveny an illustrator and painter of literary subjects was the first to produce a series of etchings or engravings outside the natural history and topographical genres. This suite of plates shows a mastery of the form and is not only a good example of the art of etching but also a key work in the development of printing arts in colonial Australia. The book was printed by John Sands who coincidentally had worked in England on the illustration of Dickens's novels.</p> <p>A self-taught printmaker Twenty Scenes published when he was 36 years old would prove to be Coveny's chief work. The year that it was published he travelled to England hoping to establish himself there as a graphic artist but suffered a mental breakdown from which he never fully recovered.</p> </p> . Thomas H. Feilding unknown‎

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‎[DICKENS]. BROWNE, Edgar‎

‎Phiz and Dickens as they appeared to. . . With original illustrations by Hablot K. Browne.‎

‎London: James Nisblet & Co. Ltd. 1913. Tall thick 8vo. xiv 320 pp. Photogravure portrait frntsp. numerous plates colour plates facsimile letter from Dickens. Blue cloth gilt lettrng embssd gilt lozenge bust on frnt cvr mnr dustsoilng shlfwr slght foxng on endpapers still a VG copy. First trade edition of this nicely illustrated biography of the famed artist for many of Dickens’ classic novels -- with extensive notes about their collaboration -- Hablot Knight Browne by his son. James Nisblet & Co., Ltd., hardcover‎

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