Chapman & Hall 1837. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. BOOK IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN FULL POLISHED CALF WITH BRIGHT GILT RULE AND FLORAL PATTERNS TO BOARDS SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD MARBLED END PAPERS PASTE DOWNS AND END PAGES. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES PAGES LIGHTLY BROWNED AND WITH MODERATE FOXING SURROUNDING PLATES INKED OWNER'S SIGNATURE TO FRONT FREE PAPER. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED-43 TOTAL 609 PAGES 8vo BOOKS MEASURE 8.5"x5.5". FIRST EDITION 184 YEARS OLD. A BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE. Chapman & Hall hardcover
London: Hodder & Stoughton 1910. Frank Reynolds. Published circa 1910. Measuring approximately 11" x 8.75" with 584 numbered pages. <br /> <br /> This book is in good plus condition. Moderate bumping and sunning to spine. Gilt lettering on spine lightly faded. Gilt lettering and design on front board still full and vivid. Minor staining to bottom edge of textblock. Front hinge is cracked. Interior pages are bright and clean. <br /> <br /> The Pickwick Papers is a sequence of loosely related adventures written for serialization in a periodical.<br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books.<br /> <br /> Inventory #O4-25. Hodder & Stoughton unknown
London: Chapman and Hall 1880. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. viii 526pp. Original dark green cloth with gilt spine titles and decorations in black. Covers slightly worn and marked text black slightly cracked otherwise very good. Owner details to endpaper. No date c.1880. Published by Chapman and Hall but with Routledge to spine of cloth. Chapman and Hall, hardcover
London: Chapman and Hall 1874. Very Good. London: Chapman and Hall 1873-74. Publisher's “Household Edition†here parts 29-34 from November ’73 through April ’74 and constituting the whole of Pickwick. Large octavo. 400 pp. Illustrations by Phiz complete. Rebound in red quarter morocco with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Original blue-green paper wraps for each volume retained and bound in at rear. Light wear and dust soiling to edges. Binding sound. Small dampstain at head of front free endpaper verso and flyleaf at gutter; tear to frontis with tape repair; patch of dampstaining to top front corner of plate facing p. 101 just barely touching illustration; prior ownership stamp Wilson H. Kimnach on front pastedown; interior otherwise unmarked and legible throughout; a Very Good copy in a handsome binding. <br /> <br /> Gimbel D66. Chapman and Hall unknown
London: Chapman & Hall 1837. Book. Illus. by R. Seymour and Phiz. Very Good. Three-Quarter Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 3/4 green calf with brown marble boarded front and back. Gilt black label four bands and five decorative compartments on spine. Brown and blue marbled endpapers. Inscribed blank before half title dated 1909. With 41 plates. First edition mixed issue. First issue points include: the 'V' in the Weller of the engraved title illustration; S. Veller on page 342 line 5; "this friends" at p. 400; 5 line footnote page 9; dot between 'r' and 'u' in 'rum' in the last line of page 10; with the signature 'E' present on page 25 and 27; incomplete 'F' in headline of page 32; page 261 correctly signed 'x2; Frontis title and plates foxed. Cover some wear small chips primarily on edges. Very tight inside. Chapman & Hall Hardcover
London: Chapman & Hall / Cosway 1837. First Edition; First Printing. Fine Binding. First edition. One octavo volume bound in two. Title-page bound in the second volume with the rest of the preliminaries bound in the first volume. Very tastefully extra-illustrated with portraits of Dickens Seymour Talfourd the dedicatee and Phiz; engraved woodcut and a few hand-colored views of places mentioned in the text; plates a few colorea by A. B. Frost and other artists from later sets of illustrations to Pickwick; additional plain and hand-colored plates by George Cruikshank another Dickensian illustrator; and two different states of the original illustrations to Pickwick by Seymour Buss and Phiz. Handsomely bound in full green morocco gilt for Charles J. Sawyer almost certainly by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Covers panelled in blind and gilt with central gilt facsimile signature of Dickens on front covers spines lettered and decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments. Gilt-ruled board edges and gilt-tooled turn-ins. Red morocco doublures and red watered silk end-leaves front end-leaf in Volume I with gilt facsimile signature. With a portrait of Charles Dickens set under glass in the front inner cover of Volume I above the gilt-lettering "Charles Dickens at: 27 after the painting by Maclise." Some very minor browning to text and plates but overall a fine copy of this book in a very attractive binding. Hatton and Cleaver pp. 1-88. Johannsen PP. 1-75. Smith I 3. Both Volumes Very Good in decorative boards. One octavo volume bound as two. Bound in full green morocco gilt. Covers panelled in blind and gilt with central gilt facsimile signature of Dickens on front covers. Red Morocco doublures and red watered silk end-leaves. Very minor browning to text and plates overall a fantastic copy in a very attractive binding. Chapman & Hall / Cosway unknown
London: Chapman and Hall. Later Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Phiz Seymour. Two volumes printed from the stereotype plates in July 1887 & March 1889. A very good set bound in vellum with title labels to spine. Undated but with dates to verso of titles. Collation: Volume 1 xviii 472 22 plates plus frontis & engraved tp; Volume II x 492 18 plates plus frontis. Occasional light foxing. Presentation inscription to previous owner from his mother dated 1921. Slight soiling to vellum. <br/> <br/>A two volume set printed from the stereotype plates in July 1887 & March 1889. Chapman and Hall hardcover
London: Chapman and Hall 1837. Fine. Chapman and Hall London 1837 13.50 x 21.30 cm relié First edition illustrated with 43 plates including a frontispiece and title-frontispiece. MCCCXXXVII on title page. 28 plates have captions while the rest have none. Our volume possesses several features attesting to the very first printing: 5 lines at bottom of page 9; p.10 last line mark between the R and U and M of RUM; Line 29 p. 260: ""holding""; p. 341 line 1: L.5 p. 341 Inscriptino; ""inbe-licate""; p. 342 line 5: ""S. Veller""; p. 432 the F of Posthumous papers of is poorly printed. The engraved title is in second state with Tony Weller's name above the porch the first state having simply Veller. Contemporary full brown calf binding. Spine with false raised bands decorated with gilt thick fillets long tools on the bands and blind wavy patterns on the spine. Red calf title label: Pickwick. Wide blind ruled frame on boards doubled with a gilt border. Traces of rubbing. Spine slightly faded. As almost always due to the acidity of the paper the engravings often show browning notably and often a browned frame in the margin. The posthumous papers like all of Dickens's works first appeared in parts from April 1836 to November 1837 then in volume form. Written by a 24-year-old Dickens the work propelled the writer into a glory from which he never descended. The reception of the work was immense and very popular; it was claimed at the time that only the Bible and the works of Shakespeare exceeded The posthumous papers in circulation. Chapman and Hall hardcover
Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club is an unchanged high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science travel and expeditions cook paperback
London: Chapman and Hall 1874. Leather. Near Fine. 10" by 7.5". Phiz Hablot Knight Browne. A neatly bound copy of the Household Edition of Charles Dicken's first novel wonderfully illustrated throughout by Phiz this edition being the first since Dickens' death. Household edition.Dated using Jisc from copies of the work held at the British Library. Bound in half calf with paper-covered boards. Wonderfully illustrated with fifty-seven illustrations by "Phiz" or Hablot Knight Browne a British artist and illustration known for his iconic contributions to the works of Charles Dickens.With a frontispiece three plates and numerous vignettes. Collated complete. An excellent example of Charles Dickens' first novel which was originally written in serial form and published in 1837. The novel is a sequence of loosely connected adventures and characters occurring between 1827 and 1828. As with many of Dickens' other works this novel shows the grimy side of poverty and prosperity in Victorian England showing poor social conditions alongside repulsive characters. The Household Edition was the first series of Dickens' works to be published after his death in 1870. As the name suggests it was intended as for being an edition "for the home" and to be affordable for less affluent readers. Bound in half calf with paper-covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Bound without blanks. Externally excellent. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with light scattered spotting. Near Fine Chapman and Hall hardcover
Chapman and Hall 1837. Hard cover. Good/No jacket. First edition rebound in 3/4 leather. Frontispiece illustrations foxed but rest of textblock is very clean. Covers edgeworn. Front hinge cracked. Chapman and Hall unknown
The Westminster Press 1111. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. No edition remarks. 534 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth covered boards. Fabulous tipped-in colour plates by Frank Reynolds. Pages with some foxing and tanning particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate sunning and tanning particularly to spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears chips and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. The Westminster Press hardcover
London: J.M. Dent and Co. 1902. 2nd Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: xvii 354; vii 350; viii 390. Very Good. 3.75 x 5.75 inches 9.5 x 15 cm. Second printing in Dent's 'Temple Dickens' edition. Complete three volume set. Dark burgundy limp leather bindings with gilt title and decoration to spines. Light marking to covers. Spines dulled and have very slight wear to head. Slight wear to top edge and upper corners of covers. Light foxing and tanning to endpapers. Good solid bindings very clean text throughout. Colour frontis to each volume title pages printed in red and black. Previous owner's card pasted to front free endpapers with additional owner's inked name. Very scarce especially in this condition. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 3.75 x 5.75 inches 9.5 x 15 cm. J.M. Dent and Co. hardcover
Baudry's European Library 1838. Hardcover. Very Good. Binding signed. Half leather gilt spine wear to corners and edges. Browning to pages. Baudry's European Library hardcover
Chapman and Hall 1899. 2 volumes complete. With the original illustrations. Very Good condition. Some internal foxing. Slight spine fading. Chapman and Hall unknown
London: Chapman and Hall 1837. Hardcover. First Edition Early Issue: with the text and plates being a mixture of first and early states. 5 x 8.75in. xiv. 609pp. 43 illustrations. Bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards of the period. Marbled endpapers. GOOD only. Shows the extremities well rubbed with surface losses and chips former owner name stamp of the period on the verso of some illustrations throughout engraved frontispiece and title page slightly foxed a former owner has noted "First Edition" on the title page lacking second blank otherwise the binding is strong and tight the text is clean and unmarked and the boards remain distinct. As pictured. Chapman and Hall hardcover
Chapman and Hall 193 Piccadilly. Hardcover. Fair. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Contents: A later edition of Dickens' first novel. From the location of the publisher who moved to Piccadilly around 1852 - and from other copies online - this likely to be the 1857 edition. Condition: Green cloth boards with raised gold tooled lettering on spine. Inside front and rear are marbled Some rubbing to the boards and there appears to be the remains of a circular ring on the front possibly a cup stain Front flyleaf has had a rectangular section cut out. Foxing throughout. Binding is robust although there is slight separation of the boards and there is a split at the top of the spine. Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly hardcover
Chapman & Hall. Hardcover. Fair. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Illustrated by Cecil Aldin.Careful handling advised. Cover boards are very worn and faded with significant evidence of rubbing and staining. Edge bumping is visible and board corners appear warped. Spine cover has peeled away but is hanging on by a thread. Rough cut pages. Page binding intact but fragile and appears to be peeling. Pastedown pages show significant tearing along gutters. Interior pages are tanned and staining appears throughout. Endpapers browned. However book contents are in good order with clear and legible text and illustrations unobstructed by page blemishes. Pen marks on front interior. For more information see attached photos. Chapman & Hall hardcover
W. Nicholson & Sons Limited Undated. Hardcover. Good. . Green cloth boards with gilt decoration and lettering on spine and front board. Foxing/tanning to end papers and page edges. Undated. W. Nicholson & Sons Limited hardcover
Thomas Nelson and Sons. Hardcover. Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens1906 edition from Thomas Nelson and SonsIn good condition with clear pages The red cloth cover is faded at the spine and slightly scuffed along the front and rear edges. Thomas Nelson and Sons hardcover
Chapman & Hall 1837. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1837. First Edition Later State. 609 pages. Half bound in green leather Hodge Chichester with marbled paper-covered boards. B&W plates by Phiz. Two headings for Chapter III p25 and 27 upper case E bottom p25 frontis sign reads 'Weller'. Suggests a later state of the first edition. Pages are rather marked with pronounced tanning and foxing plus thumbing. Plates intensely foxed and tanned. Gutters and hinges somewhat cracked with some exposed netting. A few small edge tears to a few pages. Pen inscriptions to FEP and second leaf. Boards have some edge wear with pronounced bumping and peeling to corners while spine ends are crushed and frayed. Heavy splits to joints. Rather scratched rubbed and marked overall. Spine is noticeably sunned. Book has a slight forward lean. Chapman & Hall hardcover
<p>See photos. First thus 1837. Quarter bound in leather with marbled boards. In Fair condition with wear at extremities - be sure to closely examine photographs. Note that hinges at upper spine have started. Contains complete text. Binding is tight with no loose pages. Extensive foxing throughout. This copy has first issue points including "Veller" on frontispiece and also includes the two "suppressed Buss" plates on pages 69 The Cricket Match & 74 The Arbor Scene. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown.</p> Chapman and Hall hardcover