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‎DICKENS Charles.‎

‎Hunted down: A story.‎

‎By Charles Dickens. With some account of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright The poisoner. Woodcut vignette of ‘The Fatal House No.12 Conduit Street W.’ London: John Camden Hotten 74 & 75 Piccadilly N.D. 1870. Sm.f’cap 8vo; pp.89i printer’s imprint; Victorian half red polished sheep ruled gilt on sides tooled and lettered gilt up spine oil-marbled sides and matching end-papers; t.e.g. Very slight rubbing to leather of spine and small corner cut from front end-paper; some scattered light foxing passim; a nice copy nonetheless. Queen’s Quorum 4 denominating it ‘HQR’ i.e. as having Historical significance Quality and Rarity; Eckel p.199. The first English and first separate edition of a story originally serialised in the issues of ‘The New York Ledger’ for August 20th and 27th and September 3rd 1859 and then in England in ‘All the Year Round’ August 4th and 11th 1860 Eckel erroneously says ‘April’. The story was first collected in book form in Leipzip by Bernhard Tauchnitz in 1860 in a collection which also included the first appearance in book form of ‘The Uncommercial Traveller’ sketches and reprinted in a collection with other stories ‘The Lamplighter’s Story; Hunted Down; The Detective Police; and Other Nouvelletes’ by T.B. Peterson and Brothers of Philadelphia in 1861. Eckel seems not to have known of the Tauchnitz printing and lists the Philadelphia printing as the first collected appearance. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : DRT103590

‎DICKENS Charles.‎

‎The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club.‎

‎By Charles Dickens. With Forty-three illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall 186 Strand 1837. Half-title present; frontispiece engraved and letterpress titles and forty-one plates on plate-paper; Directions to the Binder leaf with 6 line errata on verso; pp.25 - 6 a single inset leaf that and the following leaf both bearing the signature mark ‘E’; single inset leaf headed ‘Address’ recording Dickens’s thoughts on completing half the volume inserted correctly after p.306 v. note; pp.xvi306ii307 - 609i blank; Victorian half green calf tooled blind on sides ruled and elaborately tooled gilt on spine red lettering-piece green patterned-sand-grain cloth sides; end-papers faced grey-green; armorial bookplate of Sir Frederick Fitzjames Cullinan on front paste-down and 1912 Centenary label on front free end-paper. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with the scarce and excellent suite of additional engraved plates thirty-one here present ex thirty-two by ‘Sam Weller’ and T. Onwhyn published in eight parts between May and November 1837 by E. Grattan 51 Patermoster. Row; and with four small cartoons clipped from periodicals pasted onto the verso of the added plate to p.64. Official plates mostly embrowned at margins and with a very few fox-spots passim the additional plates sometimes lightly embrowned or slightly dusty and with one or two small marginal marks or fox-spots and three insignificant marginal tears; otherwise and in general a very nice copy. Eckel pp.51 - 8; Hatton & Cleaver pp.1 - 88; Miller & Strange ‘Centenary Bibliography of the Pickwick Papers’ pp.6-65. Bound up entirely from parts printed from moveable type and not from the later stereos and conforming to Eckel’s first issue as follows: the frontispiece has four stripes on the chair instead of the later five; the title-page has ‘Veller’ on the sign instead of the later and correct ‘Weller’ the baton on the inn-sign is held almost vertical and ‘PHIZ. fecit.’ appears on the tablet below the vignette; six of the seven Seymour plates are signed the exception being the plate to p.17 which is in the re-engraved state unsigned and showing eleven floorboards instead of the ten of the original; the two Buss plates are signed and have page numbers; the two Hablot K. Browne plates signed ‘N.E.M.O.’ are present the first having the signature very faint; none of the plates have captions and those after p.358 are without page numbers though that to p.441 is in the second state: unsigned and with loop present at end of clothes line; that to p.579 is in the second state of three: the knife in the hand of the fat boy pointing upwards the table not being furnished with a salt-cellar and the back of the chair behind Mary being fully shaded; and that to p.590 is in the second state: the floorboards running horizontally and there being no bottle on the table; the text has the two chapters headed III on pp.25 and 27 in Parts I and II; and in the Directions to the Binder issued with the final part p.391 precedes p.382. From the rather more detailed analysis given by Miller & Strange supplemented by the occasional correction from Hatton & Cleaver it appears that of the plates etched by Seymour for Part I those to pp. 2 7 and 17 exhibit the first state of the second plate and that to p.9 the second state of the first plate Hatton & Cleaver p.19 quote Dexter’s supposition that probably “no more than 50 impressions were obtained from the first set of steelsâ€. Of the three Seymour plates to Part II those to pp.31 and 38 are in the first state that to p.47 being in the second state. Of the two Buss plates in Part III the first is in Miller & Strange’s first state the second in their second state Hatton & Cleaver do not differentiate. The plates to Parts V VIII and IX are in the first state those to Parts VI and VII in the second state the first state plates to Part VI with the erroneous page numbers are very rare but those in this copy exhibit an early state of the corrected plates with the erroneous numbers still faintly visible beneath the corrected ones. From Part X onwards two sets of plates were produced those in this copy being of the first plate first published state for Part X proofs being known without the page numbers and of the first plate first state for parts XI XIII XIV XVI XVII and XX whilst those to Part XII exhibit the second state of the first plate. Parts XV XVIII and XIX have the second plate. The frontispiece and the engraved title are in the earliest state. The text in parts XV XVI XVII XVIII XVIX and XX is of the first issue that to part IX in an unrecorded state of the first issue with all the first issue points recorded by Miller & Strange present except that the signature on p.261 reads correctly ‘X2’ not ‘N2’ as in the very earliest copies Miller & Strange record the absence of a quad mark between ‘its’ and ‘particular’ at l.15 on p.254 and the absence of a quad mark under ‘about’ in the last line of p.266 as always accompanying the erroneous signature mark. Parts III V VIII X and XIV exhibit an indeterminate later state of the first issue with some first and some second issue points for example in Part X at l.20 from the foot on p.295 the reading “gen’l m’n†occurs rather than the “gen’l’m’n†of Miller & Strange’s first issue or the “gen’lm’n†of their second and the ‘b’ of ‘blood’ is present at l.13 on p.301 as in their first issue whilst there is no quad mark between the inverted commas and the ‘a’ of ‘a song’ at l.15 p.297 and the second three is present though damaged in the page number to p.303 both characteristic of their second issue. Parts I II IV VII XI XII and XIII are of the second issue. There are no issue points for Parts XIX and XX. The extra leaf headed ‘Address’ inserted in Part X is in the first state with no punctuation mark present at the end of the fourth paragraph and entirely without the unnecessary dots or the type damage recorded by Miller & Strange as present in later copies. The remaining Addresses recording ephemeral events have been omitted: it is rare to find any at all in bound copies. A peculiarity of this title is that gatherings A-G the first two parts were printed signed and gathered in half-sheets the volume reverting thereafter to ordinary 8vo. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : CRT101011

‎DICKENS Charles.‎

‎Master Humphrey’s clock.‎

‎With illustrations By George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Chapman and Hall 186 Strand 1840-40-41. 3 Vols. super roy.8vo gathered in sixes; half-titles not called for; frontispiece with tissue guard and numerous engravings on text-paper in each volume; pp.vi excluding frontispiece306; vi including frontispiece306; vi including frontispiece426; original vertically ribbed cloth volumes one and two dark reddish purple narrow-ribbed cloth 28 ribs per inch volume three lighter brownish-purple bold ribbed cloth 24 ribs per inch sides ruled and blocked blind front cover blocked with clock gilt the hands showing the volume number spine elaborately blocked and lettered gilt; volume one with sprinkled burnished edges and end-papers faced café au lait volumes two and three with ‘hairline’ marbled edges and end-papers. Barely noticeable restoration to cloth of spine in volume one looks like a faint string-mark and a quarter inch of the gilt design is slightly rubbed tissue guard to frontispiece lacking and a little scattered light foxing; spine and edges of covers faded a little in volume three; otherwise a very nice bright set. The illustrations consist in fact of 130 woodcuts and twenty-five initials by Hablot Browne thirty-nine woodcuts by George Cattermole and one each by S. Williams and Daniel Maclise. There are several variants and possible combinations of variants of the cloth edges and end-papers with this title which are liable to turn up in almost any mix. This is explained not only by the fact that the work appeared first in weekly numbers then in monthly parts for which publisher’s cases could be purchased on the completion of each volume the sheets either to be returned to the publisher for binding or to be bound locally but also by the fact of the cases remaining on sale for this purpose for a considerable period and of the book also being issued by the publisher in bound volumes as soon as each volume was complete and then as sets after the completion of the issue of volume three. It may be stated with more or less certainty that copies with ‘hairline’ marbled edges and end-papers being too commonly met with to be the freak of some provincial binder must at some point have been bound up by the publisher as no such uniformity of marbling could otherwise have been achieved. The book is also seen however with café au lait faced end-papers as in the present volume one green-faced end-papers pale yellow coated end-papers and rarely end-papers with other forms of marbling. The last of these is probably provincial but the rest are common enough for their period to offer no evidence of their origin. Eckel pp.67-70 noting no variants; not in Sadleir this being the only 8vo fiction in cloth lacking from his collection; Wolff 1804 recording a copy with end-papers faced café au lait. In this copy p.iii l.31 has the spelling ‘favorite’ possibly as always. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : CRT101021

‎DICKENS Charles.‎

‎Speeches Literary and social.‎

‎By Charles Dickens. Now first collected. With chapters on “Charles Dickens as a letter writer poet and public reader.†London: John Camden Hotten Piccadilly N.D. 1870. All Rights reserved. Roy.16mo in half-sheets; leaf 11 not called for in this issue 18 being a single inset v. note; pp.3-372; green patterned-sand-grain cloth ruled blind on back cover ruled and blocked black embossed with lettering green-through-black on front cover and spine; end-papers coated pale yellow. Spine slightly dull and cloth of spine insignificantly snagged; otherwise a very nice copy. Scarce. The more expensive cloth issue in which the first leaf printed with commercial advertisements for the paperback issue was suppressed. The arrangement of the first gathering is nonetheless puzzling: the second leaf is signed ‘1 - 3’ showing that a leaf is truly lacking before the title-page and a stub is indeed present glued down onto the front end-paper - but this stub is not conjugate with 1 - 8 as one would expect but with 1 - 7 the following leaf 1 - 8 in the paper-back issue conjugate with the advertisement leaf being here apparently a single inset. Issued as is evident from internal evidence between March and June 9th 1870 the date of Dickens’s death. According to ‘The English Catalogue’ this cloth issue was priced at 7/6d. against the 2/- of the paperback issue. It is correspondingly far less seldom seen. The volume was edited by Richard Herne Shepherd. A second edition appeared in 1884 the Introduction there being very slightly revised and the bibliography very considerably expanded. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : IRT106726

‎?THACKERAY William Makepeace DICKENS Charles and CRUIKSHANK George.‎

‎The Loving ballad Of Lord Bateman.‎

‎Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: David Bogue Fleet Street; And Mustapha Syried Constantinople 1851. Demy 16mo in half-sheets but largely dissected to accommodate the plates the text of the ballad printed on the rectos only glued at back but not stabbed or sewn; half-title precedes etched frontispiece on plate-paper; ten etched plates by George Cruikshank on plate-paper; one inserted leaf of engraved music; pp.viii9-40 paged on outer corners throughout; yellow-green vertically fine-ribbed cloth over flexible boards cut flush blocked and lettered gilt lettered yellow-green-through-gilt on front board; end-papers coated pale yellow. Insignificant faded patch to covers not affecting design; front free end-paper lacking; otherwise a nice copy. Includes a six-line P.S. by Cruikshank followed by his wood-engraved signature declaring that he did not in fact write the introductory ‘Warning to the Public’ which appears over his printed signature above. The original verse - or at least the idea of it - is almost certainly by Thackeray a scrap-book being known containing a piece called “The Famous History of Lord Bateman†partly in his hand and with illustrations by him whilst the ‘Warning’ and the ten pages of notes are on the authority of J.F. Dexter quoting statements made to him on three separate occasions by Cruikshank the work of Dickens. This is corroborated by the text of a letter from Dickens to Cruikshank offered as Lot 110 in an auction sale held by Christies in New York on Tuesday 8th April 2003 and illustrated in the catalogue thereto which evidently refers to this production and which makes clear that Dickens also has some imput into revising the text of the song itself. He writes: “I send you the song. I have altered a line or a word here and there and substituted a new last verse for the old one. I have also added some notes though it was not easy to make anything of them for the song’s too good.†This leaves open the authorship of the actual poem though tends to suggest that the original draft was not by Dickens. Was it by Thackeray though as the revisions appear to have been settled between Dickens and Cruikshank alone One might hypothesise from this that Cruikshank himself had written it basing it perhaps on an idea of Thackeray’s and given it to Dickens to improve. The Constantinople imprint is of course a joke. The book was first issued with the London imprint of Charles Tilt from the same address and with the Constantinople imprint as here in 1839 the title-page bearing that date. This appears to be the third printing. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : HRT104822

‎DICKENS Charles.‎

‎Cover title: Sunday Under Three heads.‎

‎By Timothy Sparks Charles Dickens. A reproduction In exact fac-simile Of the Excessively rare original. London: J.W. Jarvis & Son 28 King William Street Strand 1884. Double f’cap 16mo; prelims. not called for; leaf bearing Introduction and signed at foot ‘Feb. 1st 1884’ conjugate with Jarvis’s advertisement leaf at end precedes buff paper facsimile of original wrapper bearing with ruled frame with floreate corner ornaments text and three wood-cut vignettes; blank leaf conjugate with leaf bearing facsimile signature ‘C’ and half-title with wood-engraved frontispiece on verso precedes facsimile title-page bearing text and three wood-cut vignettes; two wood-engraved illustrations on text-paper after H.K.Browne only one so signed unbacked and not included in the pagination face pp.19 and 35; buff facsimile wrapper bearing advertisements follows last leaf of text; pp.iiii front wrapper of facsimileii blankii half-titlevi18ii illustration19-34ii illustration35-49i blankii back wrapper of facsilimeii Jarvis advertisements; light grey wrappers printed in black the spine plain the back and inside wrappers bearing Jarvis advertisements. Minute chip to tail-edge of front wrapper at corner with spine; nonetheless a virtually fine copy. Scarce thus. Eckel p.102 is in error in stating that this facsimile may be distinguished from the original by being “without the words ‘SUNDAY UNDER THREE HEADS’ at the beginning of Chapter IIIâ€: those words are here present. It may be distinguished from the original however by the fact that the frontispiece here backs the half-title whereas in the original it does not - a disparity which must have been intentional since the leaf for a separate half-title exists but has been left blank. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : IRT106712

‎?THACKERAY William Makepeace DICKENS Charles and CRUIKSHANK George.‎

‎The Loving ballad Of Lord Bateman.‎

‎Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: George Bell and Sons York Street Covent Garden 1883. Wide cr.8vo so watermarked in half-sheets but like the original dissected to accommodate the plates the text of the ballad printed on the rectos only and glued at back but not stabbed or sewn; leaf blank but for signature mark ‘a’ and half-title precede etched frontispiece on plate-paper with thin paper guard; ten etched plates by George Cruikshank and one inserted leaf of engraved music all on plate-paper with thin paper guards; final blank; pp.2viii9-43i printer’s imprintii paged on outer corners throughout; quarter light brown buckram ruled and lettered gilt on spine finely mottled grey-green cloth sides; t.e.g. others uncut. Somewhat stiff to open but sound; numerous light pencilled notes passim v. note; otherwise a fine copy. One of an edition limited to 250 copies printed at the Chiswick Press. From the library of Austin Dobson with his small oval blind-stamp reading ‘AUSTIN DOBSON’ around the frame and ‘EALING’ in the central area on the half-title his large pictorial bookplate by Edwin. A. Abbey on the front paste-down and extensive pencilled annotations in his hand throughout. This edition carries a substantially different text from that originally published by Charles Tilt in 1839 as Dobson’s notes make clear and perhaps may by intention follow that of the edition of 1870 in the revision of which Dickens is thought to have had a hand. The original verse - or at least the idea of it - is almost certainly by Thackeray a scrap-book being known containing a piece called “The Famous History of Lord Bateman†partly in his hand and with illustrations by him whilst the ‘Warning’ and the ten pages of notes are on the authority of J.F. Dexter quoting statements made to him on three separate occasions by Cruikshank the work of Dickens. This is corroborated by the text of a letter from Dickens to Cruikshank offered as Lot 110 in an auction sale held by Christies in New York on Tuesday 8th April 2003 and illustrated in the catalogue thereto which evidently refers to this production and which makes clear that Dickens also has some imput into revising the text of the song itself. He writes: “I send you the song. I have altered a line or a word here and there and substituted a new last verse for the old one. I have also added some notes though it was not easy to make anything of them for the song’s too good.†This leaves open the authorship of the actual poem though tends to suggest that the original draft was not by Dickens. Was it by Thackeray though as the revisions appear to have been settled between Dickens and Cruikshank alone One might hypothesise from this that Cruikshank himself had written it basing it perhaps on an idea of Thackeray’s and given it to Dickens to improve. Loosely laid in to this copy are two leaves from an old Pickering and Chatto catalogue describing and giving extensive notes on the original edition including comments on the genesis of the poem attributed to Walter Hamilton Augustus Sala and Frederick Locker. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : HRT118567

‎DICKENS Charles.‎

‎Speeches Literary and social.‎

‎By Charles Dickens. Now first collected. With chapters on “Charles Dickens as a letter writer poet and public reader.†London: John Camden Hotten Piccadilly N.D. 1870. All Rights reserved. Roy.16mo in half-sheets; half-title not called for; leaf 11 recto and verso printed with commercial advertisements ‘Norton’s Camomile Pills’ and ‘Godfrey’s Extract of Elder Flowers’ on recto ‘Mayfair Sherry’ on verso; title-leaf preceded by a stub conjugate with 1 - 7; four leaves of commercial publisher’s and trade advertisements at end the last serving as paste-down; pp.372; glazed yellow paper wrappers uplettered in black on spine ‘CHAS. DICKENS SPEECHES 2/-’ printed in red and black on front wrapper and on back wrapper with commercial advertisements in black; end-papers printed on all visible surfaces with commercial advertisements; slip of pale buff paper printed in red advertising ‘Now ready Cr.8vo. nearly 400 pp. price 7s. 6d. Charles Dickens: The story of his life By The author of “The Life of Thackerayâ€â€™ tipped onto front end-paper. Wrappers with a few small chips not touching printed areas a little rubbed and creased and with two old marks from clear tape now removed; end-papers a trifle dusty; wrappers unobtrusively re-attached with strengthening inside at gutters; text otherwise nice. Scarce. The cheaper issue in wrappers in which the first leaf printed with commercial advertisements is called for: it was suppressed in the cloth issue. The stub may have held the front paste-down which was printed on verso with ‘E. Moses and Son’ advertisements and if it did that and the advertisement leaf may have been wrongly imposed. One or other of these leaves at any rate is not accounted for in the signatures. Issued as is evident from internal evidence between March and June 9th 1870 the date of Dickens’s death. The inserted slip may therefore indicate a later issue. The volume was edited by Richard Herne Shepherd. A second edition appeared in 1884 the Introduction there being very slightly revised and the bibliography very considerably expanded. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : IRT106727

‎DICKENS Charles.‎

‎Pictures from Italy.‎

‎The Vignette Illustrations on Wood by Samuel Palmer. London: Published for the author By Bradbury & Evans Whitefriars 1846. F’cap 8vo; advertisement leaf precedes half-title; hand-coloured vignette title-page and three hand-coloured vignettes in the text all with tissue guards v. note; 2pp. integral advertisements at end v. note; pp.viii270ii; greenish blue fine-diaper cloth ruled and blocked with an ornamental frame and circular centre-ornament blind on sides spine ruled and blocked with olive-wreath in top bottom and middle compartments all blind lettered gilt in two remaining compartments; t.e. uncut others rough-trimmed; end-papers coated pale yellow. Barely perceptible wear to top corners of spine; light early signature ‘D. Embleton’ on upper margin of title-page; otherwise a very nice copy. A PROBABLY UNIQUE COPY OF A HITHERTO UNRECORDED PRINTING WITH THE VIGNETTES HAND-COLOUREDBound final book proof exhibiting an otherwise unrecorded state of text in the earliest binding and a trial copy with the vignettes hand-coloured and protected by tissue guards. Evidence relating to the first edition states and issues of this title is extremely complex - a fact which has only recently been realised - but it is possible on the basis of our own observations and of a survey carried out by Daniel Farr v. Daniel Farr Books Catalogue 1 2004 pp.15 - 18 to assign most or all of the recorded variants of the text to a logical sequence within two narrowly separated printings. In the Podeschi Catalogue of the Gimbel Collection New Haven Yale University Press 1980 A98 three different bindings and one issue variant of text are distinguished this last the absence of the comma after “Wood†in the fourth line of text of the title-page being also noted by Smith Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth Los Angeles Heritage Bookshop 1983 II: 7. Both associate it with the later binding styles. Smith also notes that in one rebound copy he has seen the full-stop was lacking after the printer’s imprint on p.270. Farr illustrates two further rarer and more important variants: the drop-head to the first page of text is usually set wholly in Black Letter but in some copies the definite article is set in Roman Face; and a point which appears to have been first noted by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library in respect of a copy which entered the collection in 1922 but never to have been picked up by bibliographers: on p.271 in the advertisement for ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’ the last line reading “Twentieth Edition. In Foolscap 8vo price 5s.†is sometimes lacking. This second point is particularly interesting since it seems to suggest either that the ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’ was still in its first printing when the page was set or that it was already selling very rapidly and that the printing statement was omitted as due to be included with greater accuracy closer to the final press-date. ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’ was published in December 1845 but dated ahead and had been reprinted no fewer than twenty-one times by the end of 1846. In view of the rate of sale that this implies and the fact that the ‘Travelling Letters’ on which the present volume is based did not commence publication in ‘The Daily News’ until January 21st 1846 and continued serial issue until March 11th 1846 these episodes comprising only just over the first third of the completed work - so that this volume is unlikely to have been printed until at least mid-March - it would appear more probable that the statement of printings of ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’ was here left for insertion at a later date and that the book was never intended to appear without it. Farr records that he has examined or caused to be examined eighteen copies in respect of the first point above and twenty-seven copies including most of the eighteen in respect of the second point and found only four copies which showed either variant: two with both and two including the Fisher Library copy showing one each. All of these variant copies appear to have had the full-stop present on p.270 and the comma present on the title-page. Farr also examined or caused to be examined four copies with the declared ‘Second Edition’ title-page to which we can add two others and found them not to show the variants either in the drop-head or on p.271 though one copy he examined with the ‘Second Edition’ title-page lacked the full-stop after the imprint on p.270. The present copy has the drop head to the first page of text in a mixture of Roman Face and Black Letter lacks the ‘Edition’ statement line on p.271 has the comma present after ‘Wood’ on the title-page and lacks the full-stop after the imprint on p.271. All of these points are duplicated by a further copy currently in our stock but a cursory comparison of the present copy both with that and with two copies showing the usual configuration of points but one with and one without the comma on the title-page tends to confirm of the present copy that it exhibits an earlier state of the typography and is probably a proof an attempt having been made to clean up typographical faults between this and the commercial first printing but some slight progressive type damage having also been introduced. At p.237 l.1 in this copy for example there is a mark above the ‘i’ of ‘hill’; at p.243 l.24 the first ‘e’ of ‘heed’ is in the wrong fount; at p.251 l.15 there is an extra full-stop present after ‘it.’; and at the antepenultimate line of p.253 the first ‘e’ of ‘mere’ is printed light: the faults on p.237 251 and 253 being present in none of the other copies examined that on p.243 being present only in the other first published state copy in our stock; whilst on the other hand at p.244 l.8 the ‘e’ of the first ‘the’ is here perfect save for a slight spur at the angle of the cross-stroke but printed too heavily: in the first published state copy it is printed too heavily and also slightly clogged having the spur of ink descending sufficiently from the point of the loop to just about close the outline and in the other copies we examined it is printed too heavily clogged and also battered. Farr in this context notes in respect of the many copies he has examined that “the ‘e’ becomes progressively battered and finally broken.†Looking at all the evidence as here presented it appears the present copy is a final book proof; that an attempt was made to clean up the type before the first printing resulting in our second copy that exhibiting the first issued state; the full-stop was inserted in the imprint on p.270 very early in the course of printing the first impression resulting in the two copies recorded by Farr which must now be said to exhibit the second issued state; that the alterations to the drop-head and to the advertisement leaf were made soon after creating the frequently found third issued state; the comma dropped out after ‘Wood’ on the title-page at some point quite late in the print run such copies in what we may call the fourth issued state being found with fair frequency in association with copies in the vertically or horizontally fine ribbed cloth of the second binding and in the third binding: according to Podeschi’s sequence of issues the comma was later re-inserted but this is based only on evidence of binding style and may reflect merely a tardy use of sheets - as indeed must have been the case with the two copies recorded by Farr as exhibiting mixed second and third issue points. Finally to judge by the comparative scarcity of such copies either at the end of the first printing or more probably late in the second the re-inserted full-stop in the imprint on p.270 dropped out again copies in the second binding or the third binding with or without the ‘Second Edition’ title-page having been noted without this full-stop but with the statement of printing line present on the advertisement leaf which is part of the same sheet. The second printing appears to have been made soon after the first and may only have been a continuation of it so that the remaining sheets of the first printing and those of the second including title-pages appear to have been stacked together at the binders and may have become indiscriminately mixed resulting in a confusion of the later issue points. The last copy was not sold according to the Bradbury and Evans records until 1856 and probably was not bound up much earlier. Dickens was known for a tendency to experiment with the production of his volumes but we should here have assumed that the very delicate hand-colouring of the present copy had been executed as a special commission for some early purchaser were it not for the anomalous nature of the volume otherwise making clear that this copy as a whole was not part of the regular printing and must precede it. It appears rather from this that a hand-coloured issue must have contemplated but was never in fact further proceeded with. Probably no more than a handful of copies will have been produced of this trial printing - and it seems unlikely that more than this single copy will have been hand-coloured as a way of assessing the factors of time and cost. We have not attempted to compare this volume in detail with a copy of the book as published and cannot say whether it differs textually from the published version after p.97 otherwise than in respect of the advertisements but a couple of minor differences have been noted between this copy and Smith’s list of the textual changes made by Dickens between the periodical publication of the first eight parts and the regular printing of the book edition both interestingly enough in part eight: p.93 l.15 a comma is here present after ‘Modena’ as in the periodical appearance but not as recorded by Smith for the published book though it is present in our first issued state copy; and p.95 l.18 TASSO is in large and small capitals rather than in upper and lower case as called for by Smith. In both cases however an error of transcription on the part of Smith is to be suspected. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : IRT106720

‎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 April 29 1914. Academy of Music Philadelphia U.S.A. Published for the Philadelphia Branch Dickens Fellowship John M. Patterson President and Editor N.D. c.1916. Med.8vo; blank and wood-engraved portrait frontispiece signed C O Facker with tissue guard precede half-title; limitation notice on verso of half-title signed and numbered in red; fourteen half-tone plates with tissue guards and three large folding half-tone plates; vignette tailpiece in line; pp.152; navy blue fine-bead-grain cloth cream paper spine-label printed in red; t.e.g. others uncut; spare label loosely laid-in at end of text. An exceptionally fine copy in the original unprinted buff paper dust-wrapper this somewhat dusty and insignificantly frayed at edges. One of a total edition limited to five hundred copies numbered and signed by the Editor. Dated from the obituary list which follows the List of Illustrations the latest entry of which is April 24th 1916. A sumptuously produced record of what seems to have been a very professionally produced piece of private theate performed in the splendid hall of the Philadelphia Academy of Music. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : JRT118728

‎DICKENS Charles.‎

‎The Unpublished Letters of Charles Dickens To Mark Lemon.‎

‎Edited by Walter Dexter. 1927 London: Halton & Truscott Smith Ltd. Printed in Great Britain. Double cr.8vo; eight plates on imitation art paper included in the pagination and six inserted facsimiles on blue-tinted paper; limitation leaf followed by blank at end; pp.viii168; half forel ruled gilt on front cover lettered gilt on spine rose pink cloth sides; t.e.g. others uncut; rose pink and white head-band; text-paper end-papers. Cloth of back cover slightly mottled; otherwise a fine unopened copy. One of an edition limited to 525 numbered copies. Printed on Chantry hand-made paper. There is no list of plates but they form pp.19-20 25-26 45-46 91-92 97-98 115-116 121-122 and 149-150; the facsimiles are bound in between pp.42-3 single leaf f’cap 8vo 50-51 double leaf f’cap 8vo 52-3 double leaf f’cap 8vo 56-7 single leaf f’cap 8vo 102-3 large folding and 152-3 single leaf f’cap 8vo. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : JRT109061

‎DICKENS Charles..‎

‎Screenplay Of Charles Dickens’ “Oliver Twist†By David Lean Stanley Haynes.‎

‎Shooting script London May 12th 1947. Cr.4to mimeographed on one side of the paper only foliated i130 wire-stabbed into blue card wrappers cut flush orange-caramel fine-weave cloth spine white label with label typed in black on front wrapper. Nice copy. Marked up in pencil on several leaves with cuts and revisions in an unidentified hand and with a faint pencilled inscription on front wrapper reading ‘Cineguild Publicity’. The inside front wrapper bears printed in silver: “May Hemery Ltd. Typewriting stenography Translations duplicating Facsimile copying And Every secretarial service. 15 Princes Row Buckingham Palace Road S.W.1. etc.†All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : LRT114553

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎OUR MUTUAL FRIEND‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1865. First book edition. Octavo approximately 650pp. Hardcover in VG- condition. Bumping and shelf-wear. Rebound. First book edition being two volumes bound together as one. Includes original wrappers for the monthly publications bound in at rear as well as original advertisements. Half-bound leather and decorative paper and matching end papers. Spine has five raised bands with gilt text and decoration. Mild rubbing to leather to spine and corners. Head edge gilt. Previous owner's book-plate to paste-down end page. Text is bright and clean with only minor foxing and age-toning. Binding is sturdy. Edition points: The word "pricipal" is uncorrected in volume two pp.115 line 38. G.G. CONSIGNMENT. Shelve: CASE #4 Spine is dark green leather with gilt text. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 9-3-1230627

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎American Notes AND Pictures from Italy The Centennial Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens‎

‎London: Heron Books nd. No edition stated. Hardcover. Very Good. Introduction by Sacheverell Sitwell. Illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen. Green simulated morocco boards decoratively stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. Simulated raised bands on the spine silk bookmark and silk headbands. A clean copy in tight binding without dust-jacket as issued. Slight damage as if by a nail head in the centre of the spine. Printed leaflet about the volume laid-in. <br/><br/> Heron Books hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 90127

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎The Old Curiosity Shop - 2 volumes The Centennial Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens‎

‎London: Heron Books nd. No edition stated. Hardcover. Very Good. Introduction by the Earl of Wicklow. With original iIlustrations by George Cattermole Phiz Hablot K. Browne Samuel Williams and Daniel Maclise. Green simulated morocco boards decoratively stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. Simulated raised bands on the spines silk bookmarks and silk headbands. Clean copies in tight bindings without dust jackets as issued. Printed leaflet about the edition laid-in. <br/><br/> Heron Books hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 90125

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - 2 volumes The Centennial Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens‎

‎London: Heron Books 1967. No edition stated. Hardcover. Very Good. Introduction by Bernard Darwin. Illustrations by Seymour and Phiz Hablot K. Browne. Green simulated morocco boards decoratively stamped in gilt on the spine and upper panel. Simulated raised bands on the spines silk bookmark and silk headbands. Clean copies in tight bindings without dust jackets as issued. Printed leaflet about the edition laid-in. <br/><br/> Heron Books hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 90121

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎THE CHIMES: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1845. First Edition Second Issue. 16mo. Publisher's original red cloth stamped in gilt. Rebacked with original spine laid down. Yellow endpapers. All edges gilt. Complete with the initial ad leaf half-title engraved frontispiece and vignette title-page. With publisher's name below vignette on engraved title page. VG. Boards slightly worn at extremities. Text age-toned but generally clean. Shelved in Case #4. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 9-114-1197900

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Dombey and Son 2 volumes‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1879 . No edition stated. Hardcover. near Very Good. 8vo. Vol I pp x 454 frontis and 16pp illustrations. Vol II pp viii 459 frontis and 16pp illustrations. The illustrations are by F. Barnard. Original green cloth boards stemped in gilt and black on the spine and black on the upper panel. Contents clean and tightly bound without dust-jackets. The bottom corners of the upper boards are lightly bumped. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 87802

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Martin Chuzzlewit‎

‎London: The Folio Society 1988. Hardcover. 1st printing of this edition. Introduction by Christopher Hibbert. Illustrated with line drawings by Charles Keeping. Green cloth spine decoratively stamped in gilt with sides of printed paper on boards. Very Good in near Very Good slipcase. <br/><br/> London: The Folio Society, 1988 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 9451

‎DICKENS MONICA‎

‎AN OPEN BOOK‎

‎NY: SMITHMARK PUB. 1978. Price clipped DJ. Previous owner's inscription. . FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. VG/VG. SMITHMARK PUB.‎

Bookseller reference : 023778 ISBN : 0831766204 9780831766207

‎Dickens Charles; Owl Eyes Editor‎

‎A Christmas Carol: Annotated by Owl Eyes Paperback Dickens Charles and Owl Eyes‎

‎Enotes 2017-09-12. Paperback. Very Good. Book is in very good condition cover has minor wear along the edges and corners. Enotes paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 66-T4PR-VR95 ISBN : 1625770030 9781625770035

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎The Complete Christmas Books of Charles Dickens‎

‎Digireads.com. Used - Good. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. Digireads.com unknown‎

Bookseller reference : GRP114157053 ISBN : 142093273x 9781420932737

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎David Copperfield Part 2: Heron Centennial Edition‎

‎Heron Books. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. Heron Books unknown‎

Bookseller reference : GRP113633944

‎Dickens Charles.‎

‎A Christmas Carol and Other Stories.‎

‎Pleasantville New York:: Reader's Digest 1988. Hardbound. BINDING/CONDITION: dark green cloth with gilt text and decoration; red at the spine; ribbon place marker; Fine condition. 8vo 9.25 inches tall. Marbled endpapers. Description: This is from the Reader's Digest World's Best Reading series. The text is complete and unabridged. Decorated chapter caps. Illustrations in black and white and color by Arthur Rackham and Robert and Barbara Buchanan; afterword by A Edward Newton. This copy includes the publisher's insert. Originally published in 1843. Reader's Digest hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 064943 ISBN : 0895773155 9780895773159

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Great Expectations Paperback Dickens Charles‎

‎Barnes & Noble Books 1998-01-01. Paperback. Good. Book is in good condition cover has some wear along the edges and corners. Spine has some mild creases. Barnes & Noble Books paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 8G-PBWY-EMVE ISBN : 0760708703 9780760708705