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‎Dickens Charles; Percy Fitzgerald Notes & Comm.‎

‎Bardell v. Pickwick: The Trial for Breach of Promise of Marriage.‎

‎2005. ISBN 9781584774204; ISBN-10: 1584774207. Bardell v. Pickwick Dickens Charles. Bardell v. Pickwick: The Trial for Breach of Promise of Marriage Held at the Guildhall Sittings on April 1 1828 Before Mr. Justice Stareleigh and a Special Jury of the City of London. Edited with Notes and Commentaries by Percy Fitzgerald. Originally published: London: Elliot Stock 1902. vii 116 pp. Illustrated. Reprinted 2005 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN 9781584774204; ISBN-10: 1584774207. Hardcover. New. $25.95 One of the most famous legal cases in English literature Bardell v. Pickwick is an episode from The Pickwick Papers 1836-1837 by Charles Dickens 1812-1870 in which the hero becomes the defendant in a breach of promise of marriage suit. Mr. Justice Gaselee and Serjeants Snubbin and Buzfuz are among the characters introduced here. One of the most popular episodes in the novel it was often dramatized or read aloud as a parlor entertainment. It also inspired several legal analyses most notably Frank Lockwood's The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick which is available as a Lawbook Exchange reprint. unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 39804 ISBN : 1584774207 9781584774204

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Master Humphrey's Clock‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1840. First Edition in Book Form of Master Humphrey's Clock - The Old Curiosity Shop - Barnaby Rudge<br/><br/>DICKENS Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Vol. I. II. III. London: Chapman and Hall 1840-1841-1841.<br/><br/>First edition in book form. Three large octavo volumes 10 1/16 x 6 5/8 inches; 255 x 169 mm. i-viii 12-306; i-vvi 12-306; i-vvi 12-426. Two frontispieces 130 woodcuts and twenty-five initials by Browne; one frontispiece and thirty-eight woodcuts by Cattermole; one woodcut each by S. Williams and Maclise.<br/><br/>Publisher's dark purple-brown rib-grain blind-stamped cloth with primary clock design stamped in gilt on front covers spines lettered and tooled in gilt. Original Spanish hair-vein marbled endpapers in black blue and red all edges marbled. Some minor wear to top of spines minimal fading to covers the gilt bright and fresh. Some light scattered foxing to throughout. An excellent set. With the armorial bookplate of Barbara Hylton Madge on front paste-downs and also the early in signature of Agnes Barron 1841 on all three front blanks.<br/><br/>"Being a hard sleeper likewise he divided his time pretty equally between these two recreations always falling asleep when he had done eating and always taking another turn at the trencher when he had done sleeping by which means he grew more corpulent and more drowsy every day of his life." - Charles Dickens Master Humphrey's Clock<br/><br/>Master Humphrey's Clock was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from 4 April 1840 to 4 December 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle of friends which includes Mr. Pickwick and their penchant for telling stories. Several short stories were included followed by the novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. It is generally thought that Dickens originally intended The Old Curiosity Shop as a short story like the others that had appeared in Master Humphrey's Clock but after a few chapters decided to extend it into a novel. Master Humphrey appears as the first-person narrator in the first three chapters of The Old Curiosity Shop but then disappears stating "And now that I have carried this history so far in my own character and introduced these personages to the reader I shall for the convenience of the narrative detach myself from its further course and leave those who have prominent and necessary parts in it to speak and act for themselves."<br/><br/>Master Humphrey is a lonely man who lives in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique longcase clock by the chimney-corner. One day he decides that he would start a little club called Master Humphrey's Clock where the members would read out their manuscripts to the others. The members include Master Humphrey; a deaf gentleman Jack Redburn; retired merchant Owen Miles; and Mr. Pickwick from The Pickwick Papers. A mirror club in the kitchen Mr. Weller's Watch run by Mr. Weller has members including Humphrey's maid the barber and Sam Weller.<br/>Master Humphrey's Clock appeared after The Old Curiosity Shop to introduce Barnaby Rudge. After Barnaby Rudge Master Humphrey is left by himself by the chimney corner in a train of thoughts. Here the deaf gentleman continues the narration. Later the deaf gentleman and his friends return to Humphrey's house to find him dead. Humphrey has left money for the barber and the maid no doubt by traces of love that they would be married. Redburn and the deaf gentleman look after the house and the club closes for good.<br/><br/>In the portion of Master Humphrey's Clock which succeeds The Old Curiosity Shop Master Humphrey reveals to his friends that he is the character referred to as the 'single gentleman' in that story.<br/><br/>Provenance: With the armorial bookplate of Barbara Hylton Madge 1882-1967 on front paste-downs. Barbara Hylton Madge was the wife of Lieut. Col. C.A. Madge and mother to John Madge who wrote The Origins of Science Sociology. His brother Charles Henry Madge who was a poet journalist and a literary figure from his early twenties and founder of Mass Observation.<br/><br/>Smith I 6. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840 unknown books‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Engraved ticket to Charles Dickens's farewell dinner‎

‎London 1867. Admission ticket #70 for the public banquet given in honor of Charles Dickens as he embarked on his final American reading tour. In 1867 Dickens was at the height of his literary fame and the grand farewell dinner at London's Freemason's Hall was attended by almost five hundred guests including Matthew Arnold Wilkie Collins Alfred Tennyson and Anthony Trollope. In his response to the toasts Dickens outlined his reasons for returning to America: " I am inspired . . . by a natural desire to see for myself the astonishing change and progress of a quarter of a century over there to grasp the hands of many faithful friends whom I left upon those shores to see the faces of a multitude of new friends upon whom I have never looked and last not least to use my best endeavor to lay down a third cable of intercommunication and alliance between the old world and the new." Dickens was overwhelmed by the occasion writing to his friend Harry Wills the following day: "When I got up to speak but for taking a desperate hold of myself I should have lost my sight and voice and sat down again." A near-fine artifact of the Victorian literary scene. Pale green coated card measuring 3 x 4.5 inches printed recto only: "Dinner given to Mr. Charles Dickens / on the occasion of / His Departure for the United States / Freemason's Hall Great Queen St. / Saturday November 2nd 1867 Seven o'clock." Lightest edgewear. unknown books‎

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‎DICKENS Charles; ROOT & SON Binders‎

‎A Christmas Carol. The Chimes. The Cricket on the Hearth. The Battle of Life. The Haunted Man‎

‎London: Chapman & Hall 1843. A Superb First Edition Set of The Charles Dickens Christmas Books<br/>Beautifully Bound by Root & Son ca. 1920<br/><br/><br/>DICKENS Charles. ROOT & SON Binders. The Christmas Books. London: Various 1843-1848.<br/><br/>Comprising:<br/><br/>A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas. With illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall 1843. <br/><br/>First edition first issue with "Stave I" reading. Sixteenmo 6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm. 8 166 2 ads pp. Complete with half-title and ads. Half-title printed in blue title-page printed in red and blue four hand-colored plates and  intertextual illustrations.  Original endpapers bound in.<br/><br/>And:<br/><br/>The Chimes: A Goblin Story or some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and A New Year In. London: Chapman and Hall 1845.<br/><br/>First edition second state of the engraved title. Sixteenmo 6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm. 8 175 1 colophon pp. Complete with ad for A Christmas Carol on verso of the first leaf. Engraved frontispiece engraved title and intertextual illustrations.<br/><br/>And:<br/><br/>The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home. London: Printed and Published for the Author by Bradbury and Evans 1846.<br/><br/>First edition. Sixteenmo 6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm. 8 174 2 ads pp. Complete with half-title and the Oliver Twist advertisement at end. Engraved frontispiece engraved title and intertextual illustrations.<br/> <br/>And:<br/> <br/>The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury & Evans 1846.<br/><br/>First edition fourth issue with Cupid added to the scroll but without publisher's imprint on engraved title. Sixteenmo 6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm. 8 1-2 sectional title 3-175 1 colophon 2 ads pp. Complete with half-title and ads. Engraved frontispiece engraved title and intertextual illustrations.<br/> <br/>And:<br/> <br/>The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. London: Bradbury &<br/>Evans 1848.<br/><br/>First edition. Sixteenmo 6 3/8 x 4 inches; 160 x 100 mm. 8 188 pp. Complete with ads and half-title. Engraved frontispiece engraved title and intertextual illustrations.<br/><br/>Uniformly bound by Root & Son ca. 1920 stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-ins. Full blue crushed levant morocco covers with three-line gilt border surrounding a large holly leaf inlaid in green morocco and detailed in gilt with six inlaid red morocco berries on stem. Four similar but smaller corner-pieces also inlaid in green and red morocco. Spines with five raised bands similarly decorated with inlaid green and red morocco holly leaves and lettered in gilt in compartments. Decorative gilt board edges and turn-ins pale blue liners and endleaves. all edges gilt. Each volume with the original tan and brick red cloth covers and spines bound in at end. Spines very slightly and uniformly darkened. Some scattered light foxing otherwise a very fine set of arguably the most influential and important nineteenth century tales of the Christmas season. Housed in a felt-lined quarter black morocco clamshell case smooth curved spine lettered in gilt.<br/>  <br/>Following the overwhelming success of A Christmas Carol in 1843 Dickens embarked upon the Christmas Books project seeking to marshal "the Carol philosophy . in order to strike a sledgehammer blow" for England's lower classes.  He continued publishing the Christmas Books throughout the 40s and the stories became mainstays of Dickens's public reading tours of the 1850s and 1860s.<br/><br/>A Christmas Carol was an instant success reportedly selling all 6000 copies of the first edition on the first day of publication and Dickens went on to write four more small festive books for each successive Christmas.<br/><br/>The London bindery of W. Root & Son consistently turned-out excellent work both on fine bindings as here and on trade bindings and sets. Packer lists the firm in business in Red Lion Square in 1899-1901 and the December 1942 issue of The Rotarian notes with regret that W. Root had been bombed out uprooted of their premises on Paternaster Row during the 1941 Blitz. There is a record in the June 10 1905 issue of The Academy "Esteemed Editions of various Authors some scarce all in new extra leather bindings. W. Root & Son 29-30 Eagle Street Red Lion Street Holborn W.C." Root & Son are also recorded at the same address in The Literary Year-Book 1909 thirteenth annual volume. The British Library have five examples of bindings by Root & Son. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843 unknown books‎

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‎Dickens Charles.‎

‎Five Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being A Ghost Story of Christmas; The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home; The Battle of Life. A Love Story; The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out and A New Year In; The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time.‎

‎London: Chapman & Hall MDCCCXLIII 1843; London: Bradbury & Evans 1846; London: Bradbury & Evans MDCCCXLVI 1846; London: Chapman & Hall MDCCCXLV 1845; London: Bradbury & Evans 1848. 5 vols. 8vo illustrated with engravings see below for the discussion of states and pagination. All volumes in full dark green morocco extra covers with gilt holly sprigs at corners backstrips faded to rich brown lettered and stamped in gilt all edges gilt each book with its original cloth covers bound in at the end. In uniformly very good condition with just a hint of rubbing to the bindings. Each volume with the bookplate of the famous minister Henry Sloane Coffin by descent to a private collector in San Francisco. A lovely set perfect for reading or handling without fear of damage. § First editions of all five of Dickens’s Christmas books. With engravings by D. Maclise R. Doyle C. Stanfield J. Leech J. Tenniel and F. Stone Thompson G. Dalziel E. Dalziel T. Williams Swain and Groves. A Christmas Carol is the high point and the crucial component in any set of Dickens’s Christmas Books. Dickens kept its production on a short leash and anecdotes abound about his pleasure or displeasure with the differently colored endpapers the color of the cloth for the binding the typography and so forth. Oddly enough despite Dickens’ personal attention to this edition it is not a particularly well-made title. Coupled with the legions of fans who often read their copies “to death†it comes as no surprise that original and well-preserved copies of this book in its correct state seldom appear on the market. The Chimes written in Genoa Italy was commercially more successful than A Christmas Carol and Dickens worked hard to make this second Christmas book a worthy successor. The Cricket. grew from the idea to begin a weekly periodical which would have been called “The Cricket†though was abandoned quickly for a more important venture and the founding of The Daily News. The Cricket was wildly successful doubling in circulation of both its predecessors. Dickens wrote The Battle of Life during a period of recuperation needed after illness attributed to overworking; despite being seriously indisposed he managed to complete the work while working on Dombey and Son though it was not as successful as his other Christmas books thus far. The Haunted Man. was the last of the Christmas books and despite requiring a final rally from the author to avoid disappointing the public the book is considered the least interesting and lowest grossing of the Christmas books; the issue of 20000 had not completely sold when the author died. All books are in their most desirable states as follows:A Christmas Carol.: i-viii 1-166 2 ads pp. First edition first issue. Green endpapers; “Stave I†on pp. 1; uncorrected text throughout; red-and-blue printed title page with four color etchings and four woodcuts full-page color etchings. The Chimes.: i-viii 1-175 1 imprint; 1 advert. pp. First edition first issue. The name of the publishers is a part of the the vignette title page as per the first issue. 11 woodcuts in text and steel engraved frontis and titlepage.The Cricket on the Hearth.: i-viii 1-174 lacks 2pp. ads pp. First edition first issue. With steel engraved frontis and titlepage and 12 woodcuts in text. The Battle of Life.: i-viii 1-3 4-175 3 imprint and ads. First edition second of four states of the engraved title. Terminal ads announce the publication in parts of Dombey and Son and the bound volume of Oliver Twist. In addition to the engraved frontis and titlepage there are 11 woodcuts in the text. The Haunted Man and the Ghosts Bargain.: i-viii 1-188 pp. with engraved frontis and title page and 15 woodcuts in the text. Smith II 4 5 6 8 9. Eckel 116-134. See Chapman & Hall hardcover books‎

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‎Dickens Charles.‎

‎The Personal History Adventures Experience & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger. Of Blunderstone Rookery Which He never meant to be Published on any Account.With Illustrations By H. K. Browne.‎

‎London: Bradbury & Evans Whitefriars May 1849 - November 1850. 8vo 20 monthly parts in 19 as issued 32 1-32 4; 12 33-64 12; 12 65-96 4; 8 97-128; 4 129-160; 8 161-192 8; 8 193-224 8; 14 225-256; 12 257-288 22; 12 289-320 8; 8 321-352; 8 353-384 2 8; 8 385-416; 8 417-448; 4 2 449-480 8; 4 481-512; 4 513-544 2; 8 2 545-576 8 1; 16 577-624 xiv 1 errata 8 4 8 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and title vignette. Original blue printed wrappers with trade advertisements to inner sides as well as outside back wrappers uncut with a variety of ads on teal pink and white paper bound-in. Housed in a blue morocco pull-off case with raised bands gilt titling and additional blue cloth portfolio with flaps. Some backstrips and hinges mended edges slightly rubbed and chipped occasionally minor foxing to plates overall remarkably good condition for such an ephemeral publication; very good. § First edition in the original parts of Dickens's favorite of his novels. It was the first of his major works to be written in the first person and by his own admission contained much autobiography: "a very complicated weaving of truth and invention" Letters VII 515. This set contains all of the advertisements slips steel engraved plates and specimens listed by Hatton & Cleaver except for rear insert “2†in part twelve eight pages or four; there are six specimens of Letts’ Diaries in part eight Hatton & Cleaver 235-271. Eckel 75. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 108340

‎Dickens Charles.‎

‎Nicholas Nickleby.‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall April 1838 - October 1839. Thick 8vo. 24ads 8ads 8ads 2ads 4 original wrappers 4 ads xvi 1-624 4 ads 6 ads 8ads 8ads pp. 40 plates including frontisportrait. Full dark-brown calf backstrip with maroon label and title stamped in gilt. All plates are foxed though text and binding are bright; very good. § First edition bound from the original parts with blue wrappers from number eighteen and numerous advertisements bound in. A unique selection and collation of choice advertisements and all relevant material to the novel collected and handsomely bound. Chapman and Hall unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 108374

‎Dickens Charles.‎

‎Collected Works of Charles Dickens. Complete Works Volume Five. I. Our Mutual Friend Translated by R. L. Sementkovsky. II. Oliver Twist Translated by V. V. Chuyko. Price of each volume 1 r. 50 k.‎

‎Two volumes in one. St. Petersburg: F. Pavlenkov Publishers 1893. Two volumes in one 4to iv 992 4 pp. printed and numbered in two columns with typographic headpiece to page one text in Russian Cyrillic script. Rebound in modern full dark-brown calf with title in gilt to backstrip. A sprinkle of minor foxing and some small scuff marks to boards; otherwise in very good bright condition. § First edition thus. An exceedingly rare translation with no complete sets noted in any library. Simon Beattie notes: “Yours item 38 comes from the first Russian collected edition 10 vols 1892-7; Fridlender & Katarskii Charl’z Dikkens bibliografiia russkikh perevodov … Moscow 1962 5. F. Pavlenkov Publishers hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 108369

‎Dickens Charles.‎

‎Little Dorrit.With Illustrations By H. K. Browne.‎

‎London: Bradbury & Evans Bouverie Street December 1855 - June 1857. 8vo 20 monthly parts in 19 as issued 32 16 1-32 4 4 4 1 1 16; 12 33-64 1 8 2 4; 12 65-96 4; 12 97-128 2 2 4; 12 129-160; 12 161-192 8 4 2 2 4; 12 193-224 4 2 2 4; 12 225-256 4 1 2; 1 12 257-288 4 4; 12 289-320 4 2 4; 12 1 323-352 4 2 8; 12 353-384 4 4 1; 12 12 1 2 385-416 1 24; 12 417-488 4 4 4 2 8; 12 449-480 4 4; 8 1 481-512 4 4; 12 513-544 2; 12 545-576 4 2; 12 577-625 xiv 2 4 with 40 engraved plates including frontis. and title vignette with tissue guards. Original printed blue wrappers with trade advertisements to inner sides as well as outside back wrappers with a variety of ads and slips bound-in. Housed in a four-fold blue cloth folder and quarter blue morocco and blue cloth slip-case with titling in gilt. Case has some chipping and fraying wrappers and edges are slightly foxed with some minor chipping and minor repairs but are otherwise in very good condition lacking only two advertising slips and the terminal ads in number five. § First edition in original parts with the white “Missing†slip intact in part 16. “In this book Dickens made a second assault on the archaism of imprisonment for debt.†Eckel 82-86. This was the last of the big novels published by Bradbury & Evans after a dispute over the publishing of Dickens marital intranquilities. Hatton and Cleaver 307-330. Thomson 73. Bradbury & Evans hardcover books‎

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‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Mystery of Edwin Drood The and John Jasper's Secret‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1870. First Edition of Edwin Drood and The First 'Conclusion' - John Jasper's Secret<br/>Uniformly Bound by Zaehnsdorf<br/><br/>DICKENS Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. With Twelve Illustrations by S.L. Fildes and a Portrait. London: Chapman and Hall 1870.<br/><br/>First edition in book form of Dickens's final work left unfinished at the time of his death. <br/><br/>Octavo 8 3/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 208 x 133 mm. vii 1 "Illustrations" 190 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens "Engraved by J.H. Baker from a Photograph taken in 1868 by Mason & Co." wood-engraved vignette title by J. Brown and twelve wood-engraved plates two by the firm of Dalziel Brothers ten by Charles Roberts all after Samuel Luke Fildes. Occasional marginal staining wood-engraved plate facing p. 98 with small 1/4 inch marginal tear. A very good copy.<br/><br/>Together with:<br/><br/>EDWIN DROOD MORFORD Henry attributed to. John Jasper's Secret: Being a Narrative of Certain Events Following and Explaining "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." With Twenty Illustrations. London: Publishing Offices 1872. <br/><br/>First English edition in book form. <br/><br/>Octavo 7 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 201 x 133 mm. iv 252 pp. Twenty wood-engraved plates.<br/><br/>Uniformly bound ca. 1920 by Zaehnsdorf for the Gardenside Bookshop Boston stamp-signed in black on verso of front free- endpapers. Full polished tan calf covers decoratively bordered in gilt. Gilt corner pieces with small floral onlays in black morocco decorative center pieces stamped in blind. Spines with five raised band decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with small brown morocco floral onlays. Edwin Drood with two brown morocco labels lettered in gilt John Jasper's Secret with one brown morocco label lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled board edges decorative turn-ins marbled end-papers top edge gilt. Joints a little rubbed but quite sound. A very attractive example housed together in a felt-lined fitted marbled board slipcase.<br/><br/>"When Dickens died on June 9 1870 he had completed only enough of his manuscript to make up six instalments leaving unfinished a work which had commanded the widest attention for its opening numbers and which promised to be one of his most effective and popular books. Although only three parts had been issued prior to his death publication of the work continued and on completion with Part 6 of all available material the vast army of readers was left high and dry as to ‘The Mystery.' The Author during the writing of the story never disclosed the ultimate development of his plot" Hatton and Cleaver.<br/><br/>John Jasper's Secret was the first of many attempts to solve The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The work was written by the New York journalist Henry Morford 1823-1881 and his wife. <br/><br/>Smith 16; Gimbel H330; Sadleir 705a; Not in Sadleir. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870 unknown books‎

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‎DICKENS Charles; CRUIKSHANK George‎

‎Oliver Twist; or the Parish Boy's Progress‎

‎London: Richard Bentley 1838. Original Cloth Rare First Issue<br/><br/>DICKENS Charles. Oliver Twist; or the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz." In Three Volumes. Vol. I. II. III. London: Richard Bentley 1838.<br/><br/>First edition first issue with the title-page authorship credit to "Boz" instead of Dickens and with the "Fireside" version of the final plate. <br/><br/>Three octavo volumes 8 x 4 7/8 inches; 204 x 124 mm. Volumes I and III in twelves volume II in eights. iv 1<br/>2-331 4 advertisements; iv 12-307308; iv 12-315316. No half-title called for in Volume III. Twenty-four inserted plates by George Cruikshank. With all but two of the sixty first issue points as stated by Smith. Volume III with short clean marginal tear 7/16 inch on B6 pp. 11/12 two short expertly repaired marginal tears on N6 & N7 pp. 255/6 & 257/8. Plates facing p. 105 and p. 165 a little foxed otherwise a remarkably clean set with all the text and plates clean and fresh.<br/><br/>Publisher's Carter A binding of moderate reddish brown horizontally ribbed cloth front and back covers stamped in blind with an arabesque design. Spines lettered and ruled in gilt without the gilt stamped London/Bentley imprint at foot original pale yellow coated endpapers. Inner hinges of volume I expertly and almost invisibly repaired rear inner hinge of volume III with very small minor and almost invisible repair. Lower joint of volume III with very slight four-inch crack which has been professionally repaired. Spines very slightly faded some minor rubbing and light wear to spine ends and corners but really a near fine set of Dickens landmark second novel. With the armorial bookplate of George Clinton Fairchild Williams on each paste-down. Individually chemised in a blue cloth clamshell case with four dark green morocco labels lettered in gilt on spine.<br/><br/>For this novel Dickens's first in the standard three-volume form Bentley divided the printing task between two firms: Volume I was printed in a twelvemo format by Samuel Bentley; Volume II in octavo format by Whiting; and Volume III preliminaries and signatures A-F and probably G by Whiting with the remaining text by Samuel Bentley again in twelvemo format. The three-decker publication date was 9 November 1838 and within a week at Dickens's insistence the title-pages were changed to include his name and the "Church" version of the final plate "Rose Maylie and Oliver" was substituted for the "Fireside" version. The true first issue is quite rare. <br/><br/>Smith I 4; Gimbel A27. London: Richard Bentley, 1838 unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 03956

‎Dickens Charles.‎

‎Master Humphrey’s Clock.‎

‎8vo in sixes. London: Chapman and Hall 1840-1841. 8vo in sixes 3 vols bound in one: 4 i-iv 306; i-vi 306; i-vi 426 pp. Full polished calf gilt pannelled backstrip with red and green labels covers with double gilt fillet gilt-roll on turn-ins all edges gilt marbled endpapers. Old crease on title pages clean covers with several marks and scuffs backstrip somewhat worn yet handsome. § Later edition in book form of this collection -- consisting primarily of "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge" -- which was first published in 88 weekly parts and twenty monthly ones. Eckel p. 63. Podeschi A51. Smith 6. Chapman and Hall unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 105990

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby The‎

‎London: 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

Bookseller reference : 02749

‎Dickens Charles.‎

‎The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. With Forty-Three Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz.‎

‎London: 1837. 8vo xvi 609 4 ads 1 address. Forty-three plates including “Veller†title-page. Old half red morocco gilt top bookplate of James Burra. Some edge-browning or foxing to some plates but a pleasant almost untrimmed copy. § First edition bound from the parts with half-title. First states of most of the points. A very acceptable copy of one the great classics of English literature. Gimbel A15. Grolier 100 English 78. Hatton & Cleaver pages 3–88. Smith I 3. 1837. 8vo unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 5151

‎Dickens Parody. Cruikshank Robert 1789 1856 Illustrator. Carpenter Y. J. E.; Attree George; Harcourt Maurice Contribut‎

‎The HUMOURIST. By Boz the Younger.; Illustrated with Numerous Comic Engravings‎

‎London: W. Marshall 24 Tavistock Street Covent Garden 1838. 1st printing presumed. Early but probably not original plain brown paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Disbound. General wear & soiling to wrappers. Occasional soil & foxing. About Very Good. 12 36 pp. Publisher advert p. 4 advising all that "Marshall's Pocket-Book Business is Removed from 1 Holborn Bars." Contains 11 additional sketches: The Dilemma anonymous 2 pp A Day at Epping anonymous 2 pp We Must Go to Margate This Season anonymous 2 pp My Maiden Speech Carpenter 2 pp Good Shots Attree 2 pp Balloning anonymous 1 pp A Tale of Mystery anonymous 2 pp I'll Have a Gala Night by the author of 'Love for Light Hearts &c' 2 pp Our Festival Day by the author of 'Random Rhymes &c' 2 pp A Progeny of a Punster Harcourt 1 p. Frontis. T.p. vignette. 12 other illustrations 11 full page with contributions by at least 2 other unidentified artists. 12mo. 7" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/>Date of printing determined from the dated advert p. 4. <br /> <br />"Boz the Younger" signs in type the first two sketches: "Old Weller's Chapter of Fat and Sam's Visit to see the Goswell Street Cattle Show"; "Sam Weller's Description of the Proclamation of Victoria I." Each one page in length. Given at the time of this publication Dickens was immersed in Oliver Twist & Nicholas Nickleby we feel confident in saying this booklet was an effort to captialize on his burgeoning fame as Boz. <br /> <br />A rather rare early 19th C. illustrated publication; at the time of cataloguing not found in any of the standard Dickens references not found on COPAC with OCLC listing just 3 institutional holdings of only 12 pages. W. Marshall, 24, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 49663

‎Charles Dickens; Edward Ardizzone Illustrator‎

‎Great Expectations‎

‎The Easton Press 1986-01-01. Leather Bound. Very Good. Full leather bound with gilt page edges and design. 4 raised bands to the spine. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Part of the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series. The Easton Press hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 190863

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Little Dorrit‎

‎In 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

Bookseller reference : 68171

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Christmas Books‎

‎First Collected Edition Of The Five "Christmas Books" DICKENS Charles. Christmas Books. London: Chapman and Hall 1852. First collected edition of the five "Christmas books" and first appearance of this Preface. Octavo 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 188 x 125 mm. i-iv 1-34-266 1 publisher's ads 1 blank pp. Inserted frontispiece "Mr. Fezziwig's Ball" after John Leechís original design for the frontispiece of the first edition of A Christmas Carol. Original publisher's green vertical-ribbed cloth decoratively paneled in blind spine decorated and lettered in gilt. Original pale yellow coated endpapers. Spine slightly faded covers slightly discolored. Spine ends just starting to fray. Text generally clean throughout. Very small bookseller stamp in blind on front free endpaper. Overall very good. Part of "The Cheap Edition of Charles Dickens" this volume comprises A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man originally published in separate book editions from 1843 through 1848. Gimbel D5 notes. HBS 67902. $750 Chapman and Hall hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 67902

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Ivy Green‎

‎"The Ivy Green" From the Pickwick Papers DICKENS Charles. RUSSELL Henry composer. The Ivy Green. Written by Charles Dickens ESQ. Composed by Henry Russell. London: M & N. Hanhart N.d. ca. 1838. Folio. Measures 13 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. Folio. Illustrated printed wrappers with four pages of music from "Pickwick Papers." Stich marks on spine where pages where taken out from a larger volume. Cut a bit short on the bottom through text small blindstamp light pencil notations on front cover. Very good. Not in Eckel. HBS 67259. $200 M & N. Hanhart unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 67259

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Cricket on the Hearth‎

‎DICKENS Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth. Or A Fairy Tale of Home. A Drama In Three Acts. Dramatized by Albert Smith Esq. By the Express Permission of the Author.With Cast and Characters Stage Business Costumes Relative Positions &c. New York: Samuel French & Son N.d. ca. 1859. Early edition. Octavo. Original yellow paper printed wrappers. Some chipping and tears to extremities. Overall a very good copy of this early and fragile edition. HBS 66202. $100 Samuel French & Son unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 66202

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Stories from Household Words‎

‎DICKENS Charles. Stories from Household Words. I. The Miner's Daughters. II. Loaded Dice. New York: Stringer & Townsend 1850. First American edition in wrappers. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. Some expected shelfwear and chipping to extremities. Previous owner's signature on front cover. Overall a very good copy of this fragile item. The Miner's Daughters is by William Howitt. Gimbel p. 372 HBS 66203. $200 Stringer & Townsend unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 66203

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Cricket on the Hearth Program‎

‎"The Cricket on the Hearth" Program DICKENS Charles. The Cricket on the Hearth Program. Royal Court Theatre London: 1912. Octavo. Covers measure 9 3/4 inches x 6 inches tied together with red thread. Eight page pamplet inside. Illustrated with ads throughout. Light wear to spine else fine. HBS 66568. $200 1912 unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 66568

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Household Words‎

‎DICKENS Charles. Household Words. A Journal Conducted by Charles Dickens. "Familiar in their mouths as Household Words." Shakepeare. New York: Published by McElrath & Barker 1854. First American edition. Octavo. Original printed paper wrappers. Covers have small tears along extremities with some chipping to top and bottom of spine with loss. Small stain to right hand corner of book mostly to beginning. Overall very good. HBS 66219. $200 Published by McElrath & Barker unknown books‎

Bookseller reference : 66219

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club‎

‎DICKENS Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. By Charles Dickens. A New Edition. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard 1850. Early American edition. Octavo. Full brown cloth decoratively blindstamped on covers gilt-stamped on spine. Tips bumped a little chipped at spine ends else very good. Gimbel. Hatton and Cleaver. Smith Dickens. HBS 66146. $200 Lea and Blanchard hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 66146

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Child's History of England‎

‎DICKENS Charles. A Child's History of England. Volume I. England from the Ancient Times to the Reign of Henry the Fifth. Volume II. England from the Reign of Henry the Sixth to the Revolution of 1688. Boston: Hickling Swan & Brewer 1857. Early edition. Two octavo volumes. Original full red cloth decoratively blindstamped on covers gilt-stamped on spines. Tips and extremities rubbed with small amount of cloth missing from one corner. Very good. Gimbel. Hatton and Cleaver. Smith Dickens. HBS 66171. $200 Hickling, Swan & Brewer hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 66171