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‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎The Works of Charles Dickens‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1929. hardcover. very good. 40 volumes. Thick 8vos beautifully bound by Bayntun in full burgundy morocco highly ornate gilt-stamped covers and spines with raised bands several volumes have minor damage at spine ends and several volumes have neat repairs to front joints; uncut edges marbled endpapers and doublures top edge gilt. London: Chapman and Hall 1929. Very good.<br/><br/> An exquisite set which includes 2 volumes of the "Letters and Speeches" and John Forster's "The Life of Charles Dickens" also in 2 volumes.<br/><br/> Chapman and Hall unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 226345

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎The Works of Charles Dickens . With introductions General Essay and notes by Andrew Lang‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons nd. Gadshill edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Three quarters brown morocco and grey boards t.e.g. Very Good. Gadshill edition. Illustrated. 8vo. Chapman and Hall. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 310413

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎The Works of Charles Dickens in 30 vols‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1891. Reprint of the Illustrated Library Edition. Thirty octavo volumes 221 x 141 mm. Late 19th century full polished calf by Tout stamp-signed on the verso of the front free endpaper. Covers with gilt triple fillet border with gilt corner ornaments spines elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments with five gilt- dotted raised bands and red and green morocco gilt lettering labels board edges with gilt-dotted rule turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt top edge gilt others uncut marbled endpapers. Minor rubbing to extremities headcaps on Volumes IX X and XXI expertly repaired. Small bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown of each volume. Illustrated with plates after the originals by "Phiz" Hablot Knight Browne George Cruikshank Frederick Walker Edwin Landseer Daniel Maclise John Leech Marcus Stone George Cattermole and Luke Fildes. Partially unopened. A near fine set. <br/><br/> "The Library Edition came about largely because of the suggestion of Forster that while Dickens's works were available in volumes in the Cheap Edition and in reprints of the serial parts there was no high-quality edition that would appeal to the wealthy. Dickens eventually came round to the idea that an elegant edition could raise the stature of his writings. He faced a complication in that the rights to the works were divided between Chapman and Hall and Bradbury and Evans. Consequently the volumes contained the imprints of both publishers. With a dedication to Forster the Library Edition appeared in 22 volumes in 1858-9 at 7s 6d per volume. Titles included Pickwick Nickleby Chuzzlewit Old Curiosity Shop Reprinted Pieces Barnaby Rudge Hard Times Sketches by Boz Oliver Twist Dombey Copperfield Pictures from Italy Bleak House Little Dorrit and Christmas Books. The only illustrations were the frontispieces.<br/><br/>Between 1861 and 1874 this edition was reissued in 30 volumes with the addition of Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend The Uncommercial Traveller A Child's History of England Christmas Stories and Drood. The reissue contained illustrations—the frontispieces plus additional illustrations by artists such as Marcus Stone John Leech and Clarkson Stanfield—and came to be known as the Illustrated Library Edition.Recognizing the continuing potential for sales of Dickens's works Chapman and Hall in 1873 published a prospectus for the Second Illustrated Library Edition containing they contended all the works the novelist wished to preserve. Calling it the first well-printed issue with specially cast type and better paper than that used in previous editions this set was published in 30 volumes between 1873 and 1876 and sold at £15 for the set a high price for the time" Oxford Companion to Dickens. <br/><br/>Gimbel D72. Chapman and Hall unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 3598

‎DICKENS CHARLES‎

‎THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY ANDREW LANG‎

‎New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1907. THIRTY-EIGHT VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Marbled boards with matching endpapers. Top edges gilt. Original illustrations with tissue-guards. Printed from the edition that was carefully corrected by the author in 1867 and 1868. Spines have mellowed to brown as is usual. Occasional light wear to corners. Small wedge of leather missing from top of spine of "Great Expectations". The edition was published in 34 volumes. Two additional volumes were added in the same year 1907 "The Life of Charles Dickens" by John Forster. In 1908 two additional volumes were added with "Miscellaneous Writings". All 38 volumes are present a pleasing and complete set of the works of one of Great Britain's most-revered authors. Due to size of this set postage will be extra. See photos. Later Edition. 3/4 Green Morocco. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octac. Charles Scribner's Sons Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 014461

‎DICKENS CHARLES‎

‎The writings of Charles Dickens with critical and bibliographical introductions and notes by Edwin Percy Whipple and others. Illustrated with steel portraits and engravings from the original designs by Browne Cruikshank Leech and others‎

‎Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin & Co 1894. Standard Library Edition 32 volumes 8vo orig. green ribbed cloth brown leather labels on spines t.e.g.; generally a fine bright set. Essentially an American reprint of Chapman & Hall's "Illustrated Library Edition" but containing all the original prefaces addresses dedications and notes which were sometimes dropped by Chapman & Hall thereby making this as complete an edition of Dickens has had yet been published. <br/><br/> Houghton, Mifflin & Co hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 19340

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Trial of John Jasper for the Murder of Edwin Drood; In aid of Samaritan Children's Homeopathic St. Agnes and Mt. Sinai Hospitals‎

‎Philadelphia 1914. Limited. hardcover. very good. Illustrations. 152p. 8vo blue cloth; front hinge cracked paper spine label; chipped. Philadelphia: Dickens Society 1914.<br/><br/> The "trial" was held at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and Jasper found not guilty. One of 500 numbered copies. Gift inscription 1932 covers one whole blank flyleaf.<br/><br/> unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 216811

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Works‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall Limited 11 Henrietta Street Covent Garden nd. Illustrated with plates after the originals by "Phiz" Hablot Knight Browne George Cruikshank Frederick Walker Edwin Landseer Daniel Maclise John Leech Marcus Stone George Cattermole and Luke Fildes. Printed by William Clownes. 15 vols. 8vo. Half red morocco and marbled boards marbled edges. Very Good. Illustrated with plates after the originals by "Phiz" Hablot Knight Browne George Cruikshank Frederick Walker Edwin Landseer Daniel Maclise John Leech Marcus Stone George Cattermole and Luke Fildes. Printed by William Clownes. 15 vols. 8vo. Chapman and Hall, Limited 11, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 320971

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Works National Edition‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1908. The National Edition. Limited to 750 sets printed for England and America. this set unnumbered. Forty large octavo volumes. With approximately 1000 illustrations with plates by Cruikshank Browne Leech et al. Title-pages printed in red and black. With many reproductions or the original parts wrappers on colored paper.<br/><br/>Volume I with an envelope signed by Dickens and an ALS by John Foster Dickens' biographer. On the first blank of volume I is a mounted small envelope addressed by Dickens to Edward Chapman his publisher and signed by Dickens on the lower left corner. Facing that page is a mounted autograph letter signed by John Foster Dickens' friend and biographer addressed to George Cattermole the artist who illustrated The Old Curiosity Shop. Foster letter is on stationery and is dated 21 September 1860. Two sixteenmo pages on one octavo sheet folded.<br/><br/>Set is uniformly bound by Riviere & Son in half brown levant morocco over brown cloth. Morocco double ruled in gilt. Spines lettered in gilt and compartments triple-ruled in gilt. Top edges gilt others uncut. Spines slightly sunned and some occasional minor rubbing and shelfwear. Overall a very attractive and near fine set. Chapman and Hall unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 1599

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Works of Charles Dickens‎

‎New York. G.W. Carleton and Co. 1883. Bound in pictorial gilt decorated green cloth. Thick 12mo. Carleton's new illustrated edition. Illustrated by Leech H.K. Browne phiz Cruikshank et al. Some occasional light wear to extremities. Several signatures in several volumes a bit shaken but firm. A Very Good handsomely bound complete set of Dickens. G.W. Carleton and Co. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 7291

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS EDITION DE LUXE‎

‎1908. DICKENS Charles. WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS EDITION DE LUXE 14 VOLUMES. Boston: C. T. Brainard Publishing Company 1908. One of 1000 copies unnumbered although limitation page states the sets are numbered. Volumes I - IX XI - XV. 8vo. half deep green leather sunned to caramel brown at spine with gilt spine lettering and decoration over green marbled paper covered boards. Seven volumes are slightly chipped at crown. Volume II is split at the front joint backstrip only binding intact. Top edges brightly gilt many pages unopened. Monochrome frontispiece and plates with title pages decorated in red and green. "With Introductions Arguments etc." Spines are headed "Dickens' Works". Near fine overall. As follows: I. Bleak House. 888 pp. II. Pickwick Papers. 817 pp. III. Our Mutual Friend. 857 pp. IV. David Copperfield. 882 pp. V. Nicholas Nickleby. 846 pp. VI. Dombey and Son. 898 pp. VII. Martin Chuzzlewit. 865 pp. VIII. Little Dorrit. 860 pp. IX. Christmas Books Christmas Stories. 411 512 pp. XI. Barnaby Rudge Hard Times. 646 269 pp. XII. A Tale of Two Cities Uncommercial Traveller Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices No Thoroughfare. 358 102 127 350 pp. XIII. The Old Curiosity Shop Reprinted Pieces. 551 352 pp. XIV. Great Expectations Master Humphrey's Clock Mugby Junction Mystery of Edwin Drood. 461 115 63 263 pp. XV. Child's History of England Pictures From Italy Hunted Down Holiday Romance George Silverman's Explanation American Notes. 393 178 23 36 252 pp. One closed tear p. 26 4th section. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 80059

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Works: a handsome partial set consisting of: Hard Times 2 vol.; Sketches by Boz 2 vol.; A Tale of Two Cities 2 vol.; Little Dorrit 4 vol. and Martin Chuzzlewit 4 vol.‎

‎New York: Sheldon & Company 1863. With frontispieces. 14 vols. 8vo. Contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards black title labels near fine. With frontispieces. 14 vols. 8vo. Sheldon & Company unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 28002

‎Dickens Charles Editor‎

‎The HOUSEHOLD NARRATIVE Of CURRENT EVENTS 1850.; Being a Supplement to Household Words‎

‎London 1850. 1st volume edition NCBEL III 818. Original green publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering. Yellow eps. VG sq & tight with bright gilt to front board/usual bit of foxing & eps discloration. A nice copy. vii 1 280 pp. Text double column. 8vo. <br/><br/>A monthly news supplement to Dickens' "Household Words" here found in the annual with a Table of Contents. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 9853.1

‎Dickens Charles Parody. Nicholson Renton‎

‎DOMBEY And DAUGHTER: A Moral Fiction‎

‎New York: Williams and Brothers 1847. 1st US edition cf. Gimbel H-338; Kitton 540; Miller p. 249; NCBEL III 798. Modern black leather spine with gilt lettering with period brown cloth covered boards. EPS renewed. Pale yellow printed wrappers bound-in at rear. Bound with Tavistock Books' item #30012 Dombey & Son and price is for both titles. Fore-edge occasionally closely trimmed otherwise a VG copy. 2 94 pp. Bound from the UK sheets. Illustrated with 12 wood-cuts. Tall 8vo. <br/><br/> Williams and Brothers hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 30013

‎Dickens Charles "Boz"‎

‎SKETCHES BY BOZ. Fine Bright Copy of the 1859 1st "Cheap" Edition‎

‎London: Chapman & Hall 1850. Dickens Charles "Boz". SKETCHES BY BOZ. London: Chapman & Hall 1850. First "Cheap" Edition with new preface by Dickens. A FINE bright copy. W. H. Smith blind-stamp on front free endpaper. The George Barr McCutcheon copy bookplate. In a particularly attractive quarter morocco slipcase. First Edition Thus. Decorative Boards. Fine. Illus. by George Cruikshank. Chapman & Hall Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 002100

‎Dickens Charles 1812 1870‎

‎Adventures of Oliver Twist The. With twenty-eight illustrations by J. Mahoney.‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. English novel; iv 204p.; 24.5cm; 3/4 black leather; 3 extra clipped illus. pasted in; manuscript Dickens bibliography on verso of flyleaf; critical comment in pencil on last page; owner marks. No date of publication listed. Chapman and Hall Hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 2338baW

‎Dickens Charles and Thomas Carlyle: Goldberg Michael‎

‎CARLYLE AND DICKENS‎

‎Athens: Georgia 1972. Quarto. Cloth. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the author to a fellow Dickensian. Fine in dust jacket with a few faint stains. Georgia hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT40727

‎DICKENS CHARLES ARTHUR JEAN COX FORREST J ACKERMAN‎

‎The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens. Edited by Arthur J. Cox with an Introduction by Angus Wilson ISBN: 0-14-043092-X / 014043092X‎

‎London: Penguin 1994. Trade Paperback Edition. From the library of legendary science fiction author Forrest J Ackerman. Signed and inscribed by the book’s editor Arthur J. Cox to his friend and colleague Forrest J Ackerman: “On His 92nd Birthday 24 November 2008. For Forry Ackerman in gratitude for a Lifetime of friendship from Arthur Jean Cox.†With a 2†tear to the top of the rear cover else a very good only slightly used copy in printed wrappers. ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood’ was Dickens’s last novel and sadly was published after his death. Forrest J Ackerman 1916–2008 or ‘Mr. Science Fiction’ was from the 1930s into the 21st century one of science fiction's best known promoters spokesman popular culture advocate and was the creator of the now universally used term “sci-fiâ€. Living throughout his life in Los Angeles Ackerman was a magazine editor science fiction writer and literary agent a founder of science fiction fandom. Internationally known for his role as editor of the magazine ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland’ he was often called "Forry" "The Ackermonster" "4e" and "4SJ.†In his huge 18-room home known as the "Ackermansion†he created a superb collection of over 300000 books movie posters props photographs and movie and science-fiction memorabilia which he generously shared with tours of thousands of people over decades. His influence was huge on several generations. One of his disciples film director John Landis has observed: “…As Editor of and major contributor to ‘Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine’ Forry’s direct influence on people like Guillermo del Toro Rick Baker Joe Dante Stephen Spielberg George Lucas Frank Darabont Brian Signer Stephen King Mick Garris Tobe Hooper Sam Raimi John Carpenter Peter Jackson and countless others has had a tremendous impact on world literature and the movies. His teenage friends Ray Bradbury and Ray Harryhausen were his comrades in celebrating and creating the fantastic….†Penguin paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 18358E

‎DICKENS Charles contributor; SEYMOUR Robert illustrator; BUSS Robert William illustrator‎

‎Library of Fiction or Family Story-Teller; The‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1836. First Edition First Issue Set of The Library of Fiction <br/>With Two Sketches by "Boz" and Plates by Seymour and Buss <br/><br/>DICKENS Charles contributor. The Library of Fiction or Family Story-Teller; Consisting of Original Tales Essays and Sketches of Character. With Fourteen Illustrations. Vol. I. II. London: Chapman and Hall 1836-1837. <br/><br/>First edition in book form first issue with title-page to Vol. I dated 1836. <br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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/>"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.<br/><br/>"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/>Rare in the original cloth neither Sadleir nor Wolff had examples in the cloth.<br/><br/>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/>"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. <br/><br/>Originally issued in fourteen monthly parts from April 1836-May 1837 with two additional parts issued in June and July 1837. <br/><br/>Eckel pp. 137-9. Gimbel E122. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836 unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 04683

‎Dickens Charles editor‎

‎Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz."‎

‎London: Richard Bentley 1838. 1st ed. 1st issue last plate without border. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vols. 13 black & white plates including frontises xix 4 1 288 ix 1 263p. plus 36p. publisher's advertisements at end of Vol. II. Rebound in polished calf. Portions of original variant ribbed dark cloth binding backstrip and front and back covers bound in at ends of both volumes. 20cm. Modest scuffing. Joints a bit tender. Internally sound and clean. Top edge gilt. <br/><br/> Richard Bentley hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 87016

‎Dickens Charles Jr.‎

‎THE LIFE OF CHARLES JAMES MATHEWS CHIEFLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WITH SELECTIONS FROM HIS CORRESPONDENCE AND SPEECHES‎

‎London: Macmillan and Co. 1879. Two volumes. Original forest green pebbled cloth ruled in black lettered in gilt edges untrimmed. Short clean snag at top of spine of the first volume inner hinges cracked cords holding as usual for this book covers a little worn otherwise a good set. Bookplates of William Joseph Connery and of Frederick Burgess and with an old bookseller's description tipped- into volume one and a small label reading "First edition" affixed in both volumes. In a half morocco slipcase. First edition. With an 1863 check signed by Mathews on a preliminary leaf in volume one. The author/editor of these volumes the eldest son and namesake of the novelist inherited the editorship of ALL THE YEAR ROUND and was later a reader at Macmillan. Charles Mathews 1776-1835 was a popular English actor. Dickens Sr. in his younger days had been a devoted admirer of Mathews and sat in the pit whenever the actor played. In 1832 the future novelist applied to George Bartley the stage manager for Mathews for work in the theatre and an appointment was arranged for an audition. On the day of the appointment however Dickens was laid-up with a terrible cold and was unable to appear. Dickens wrote to say he would have to resume his application "next season" but -- as literary opportunities came his way -- the application was never renewed. Macmillan and Co. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : WRCLIT64148

‎DICKENS Charles SCOTT Walter SHELLEY Percy Bysshe.‎

‎Bound for Naples: Impressions of Three Journeys.‎

‎Naples: Banco di Napoli. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. Text is in English. Prefaced by Giancarlo Mazzacurati and Nicola Spinosa. Illustrated with 32 full-page plates many color - various artists. First edition thus. Tall folio 141 pages. Fine in a fine dust jacket housed in a fine slipcase. A handsomely produced volume. . Banco di Napoli hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 10785

‎Dickens Charles "Boz"‎

‎Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy's Progress‎

‎London: Richard Bentley 1838. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first issue title pages author noted as Boz no mention of Dickens and with the suppressed "Fireside" illustration. 24 plates by Cruikshank. 20.6 x 13 cm. 3 volumes very good in original cloth. 8 vo. In a handsome custom-made collector's case with leather spine and gold gilt lettering. London: Richard Bentley hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 1712004

‎Dickens Charles & Harry B. Smith ed.‎

‎The Dickens-Kolle Letters.‎

‎Bibliophile Society 1910. Unspecified limited edition. Slight offsetting from frontis portrait to titlepage small stain to upper front board still fine in custom mylar cover. Illustrated with portraits and facsimiles. Vellum spine and tips over brown boards. Bibliophile Society, 1910. Unspecified limited edition. hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : Embry 142413

‎Dickens Charles & Jane Parker Resnick.‎

‎A Christmas Carol Retold by Jane Parker Resnick.‎

‎Courage Books 2000. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Color illustrations by Christian Birmingham. Courage Books, 2000. First edition, first printing. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : Embry 162580

‎DICKENS CHARLES & RICHARD HENRY DANA JR‎

‎Autograph Letter Signed from Richard Henry Dana Jr. Giving the Ecstatic Response of America to the Visit of Charles Dickens‎

‎Boston: 3 1/4 pages 9 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches January 31 1842. Original Autograph Letter Signed “Richd. H. Dana Jr.†written to Dana’s English publisher Edward Moxon describing the amazingly warm response of Americans to Charles Dickens visiting Boston. An absorbing letter showing Dana’s wonderful narrative abilities of which more than half is devoted to Dana’s account of Dickens’s stay in Boston during the English author’s celebrated first trip to America in 1842. Moxon was the British publisher of Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast and the recently issued The Seaman’s Friend. “. We have Dickens here with us & the whole town is crazy the author and his wife arrived in Boston from England on 22 January. I doubt if a literary man ever made such a ‘progress’ through a country as he is making through ours. Indeed I am certain it will be an era in literary history . From the moment the steamer was sighted up to this hour. The whole community has been in a high fever . he is obliged to refuse all visitors except at certain hours & then he holds a regular levee. The other day when he went to sit for his portrait on coming out he found the ante room staircase etc. lined with people young & old. One old lady asked him to stand still & let the ladies form a ring round so that all could see him. This was too much for his risibles & he laughed out & told her eager ladyship that he was sorry etc. but was in a hurry — & was going off; when the ladies called out to the artist ‘Do Mr. A. stop him! Don’t let him go!’ In the meanwhile the standard men of literature & wealth are paying him every attention & like him exceedingly . I have met him several times & like him very much. How full of life he is! . He told me much in the way of answering questions about yourself ‘ our friend’ as you call him Capt. Ives & others of whom I was curious to inquire . Dickens has told us many anecdotes of Charles Lamb some of which are not yet published & which interested us very much. You don’t know what a feeling there is here about Lamb .†Boston’s adulatory reception of the English writer reached its climax the next day 1 February with a great banquet held in his honor which Dana also attended. Dickens’s visit to the United States he returned to England in June resulted in his American Notes for General Circulation 1842. Written in brown ink on a bifolium of gray paper with small embossed stamp of T. Groom Boston; address panel postmark and remnants of red sealing wax. A rare view of Dickens in America through the eyes of a significant American writer. 3 1/4 pages (9 3/4 by 7 3/4 inches unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 12588J