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‎Dickens Charles.‎

‎THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD: THE TRIAL OF JOHN JASPER. Original Photograph of the Jury Being Sworn gelatin silver print approximately 5 3/4 x 8 inches‎

‎N.p. London n.d.: 1914. 1914. In January 1914 the Dickens Fellowship organized a dramatic 'trial' in the King's Hall Covent Garden. John Jasper played by Frederick T. Harry stood trial for the murder of Edwin Drood. G. K. Chesterton best known for the Father Brown mystery stories was the judge and George Bernard Shaw was the foreman of the jury which was made up of other authors. J. Cuming Walters author of THE COMPLETE EDWIN DROOD led the prosecution while Cecil Chesterton acted for the defense. Proceedings were very lighthearted; Shaw in particular made wisecracks at the expense of others present. For instance Shaw claimed that if the prosecution thought that producing evidence would influence the jury then "he little knows his functions".<br/>The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter Shaw stating that it was a compromise on the grounds that there was not enough evidence to convict Jasper but that they did not want to run the risk of being murdered in their beds. Both sides protested and demanded that the jury be discharged. Shaw claimed that the jury would be only too pleased to be discharged. Chesterton ruled that the mystery of Edwin Drood was insoluble and fined everyone except himself for contempt of court." - Wikipedia. Image a bit of tarnished several light creases very good overall. Newsprint caption worn frayed and chipped with loss of several lines of copy. Number "2033" in crayon on verso as well as remnants of "N. Y. Publishers Book Clearance Co." shipping labels at edges. #158491 [1914?]. unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 158491

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK . With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne .‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1840. Large 12mo three volumes; pp. i-v vi misnumbered "iv" vii-viii 1 2-306; i-v vi 1 2-306; i-v vi 1 2-426 three frontispieces 170 woodcut illustrations and 25 decorative initials most drawn by H. K. Browne mid-nineteenth-century three-quarter brown leather and marbled boards spine richly tooled in blind with brown leather title and number pieces brown coated endpapers. First edition. MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK was a weekly magazine Dickens intended as a flexible framework for his fiction and other writing in more frequently published units. Circulation fell quickly and a serial THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP began in the fourth issue. BARNABY RUDGE followed and upon completion of that serial a total of 88 weekly parts Dickens returned to the monthly parts format. This is an fairly early copy of the three volume form with the most of the errors called for by Smith. Smith 6. Leather rubbed and scuffed at edges edges of text block a bit darkened several stains on page 13 of volume one minimal scattered foxing illustrations generally quite clean and sharp a sound attractive copy. #157236 Chapman and Hall unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 157236

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎The Mystery of Edwin Drood‎

‎London: Chapman & Hall 1870. First Edition. In original six parts including first state of No. 6 with price cancel mounted to upper wrapper; uniformly bound in original blue-green pictorial wrappers; 12 plates and tissue guards present; additional illustrated advertisements including one lithographed in colors at rear of No. 1 and another advertising cork hats printed on cork bound in rear of No. 2. Wrappers of No. 1 quite worn and darkened with old paper reinforcement to match but now rather equally ragged; spines are all partially perished at base old stain to No. 3 else a Near Very Good or better set housed in custom cloth and paper-covered slipcase. GIMBEL A154. Chapman & Hall unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 21607

‎DICKENS Charles; HK. Browne illus H. K.‎

‎Dombey and Son Extra-Illustrated‎

‎London: Bradbury and Evans 1848. First Edition. Mixed issue. Thick octavo 21.75cm.; recent three-quarter calf over marbled boards gilt spine in 6 compartments top edge gilt new endpapers; xiv2xv-xvi624pp.; frontispiece and additional engraved title page with the title "Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son Wholesale Retail and for Exportation"; 41 additional plates of which 38 are called for the extra comprised of portraits of three of the leading female characters Florence Edith and Alice also drawn by Browne. Plate facing p. 10 "Miss Fox Introduces the Party" separated but present plates consistently quite browned or foxed a few bound in too tightly with title obscured else contents Very Good in a fine new binding. GIMBEL A103; SMITH 8. Bradbury and Evans unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 24116

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎A Child's History of England‎

‎Boston: Hickling Swan & Brown 1856. First Thus. Two 12mo volumes bound in one as issued; original brown blind-embossed cloth pictorial spine stamped in gilt. Extremities a bit rubbed with corners showing some small losses to cloth at spine foot else Very Good and sound. Contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown Joseph M. Smith. First American single-volume edition. Hickling, Swan & Brown unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 21616

‎DICKENS Charles; Marcus Stone illus‎

‎Our Mutual Friend‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1865. First Edition. 2 volumes; octavo 23cm.; original burgundy blind-tooled cloth decorative gilt spines; xi132036;vii130933pp.; frontis. & 38 plates. Both volumes recased with new endpapers to match original yellow glazed endpapers half titles preserved; cover blind-tooling neary imperceptible extremities a bit rubbed and faded spine crowns reinforced to match though affecting gilt ruling; Vol. I plates uniformly dampstained apparently before binding. Still a Very Good sound set. GIMBEL A150; SMITH 15. Chapman and Hall unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 21845

‎DICKENS Charles; George Cruikshank illus‎

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

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1839. New Edition Complete. Thick octavo 22cm.; early 20th-century three quarter maroon morocco over cloth gilt-lettered spine top edge gilt marbled endpapers; viii526pp.; frontispiece and additional engraved title page 38 plates. Lacking half title; all plates rather browned and heavily foxed occasional contemporary ink stains to a few leaves else a Very Good attractive copy. GIMBEL A7. Chapman and Hall unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 21841

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎Master Humphrey's Clock‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1840-41. First Edition in Book Form. Bound from the original parts. 3 tall octavo volumes 26cm; publisher's purple-brown vertical-ribbed cloth covers decorated with blind border of thick and thin fillets and broad elaborate flower leaf and stem design with spines lettered and decorated in gilt with five scrolled shields and three leaf-bulb designs; primary binding with the hands on gilt clocks on each front cover pointing to the hour which corresponds to the appropriate volume number; variant marbled endpapers; 2 iv 306; vi 306; vi 426pp; illus. with three frontispieces and numerous wood-engravings in text by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne "Phiz". Previous owner's name "Mrs. Eden" written in a contemporary hand at center of first blank in each volume; hint of sunning to spines with spine ends lightly softened; light wear to lower board edges with brief exposure to lower corners; slight forward lean to Vol.1; Vol.3 expertly re-hinged; occasional finger soil to margins though generally clean throughout and free of foxing; an attractive Very Good set overall. Master Humphrey's Clock was planned to be a collection of stories and sketches told by Master Humphrey and his circle of friends as Dickens outlined in his preface - written in weekly parts over 40 months. The original scheme was not successful and Dickens altered the format to make Master Humphrey's material a framework for his novels The Old Curiosity Shop nos.6-45 and Barnaby Rudge nos.46-88. Chapman and Hall unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 21843

‎Dickens Charles Wood Henry writing as "An American Lady.‎

‎CHANGE FOR THE AMERICAN NOTES: IN LETTERS FROM LONDON TO NEW-YORK. By An American Lady pseudonym‎

‎New York: Published by Harper & Brothers 1843. Octavo pp. i-iv 5-88 printed in double columns disbound. First U.S. edition. A response to Dickens' AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION an account of his 1842 trip to the United States which drew considerable criticism for his generally unfavorable opinion of the country and its inhabitants which Dickens declared was "not the republic I came to see; this is not the republic of my imagination." Wood paints a very dismal picture of society in mid-Victorian England. Sabin 20004. Gimbel H491. Disbound lacks the printed wrappers and the 4 pages of publisher's ads at front else a very good copy with clean text and no foxing other than a mild stain or large fox mark to the title leaf. #129366 Published by Harper & Brothers unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 129366

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎THE BOYS OF DICKENS RETOLD‎

‎Springfield MA: McLoughlin Brothers Inc. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. The binding is clean and nearly fresh with no ownership or other marks. The uncommon dustjacket has shelfwear with modest loss at the spine; it is now protected with a new mylar cover. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket. McLoughlin Brothers, Inc unknown books‎

Référence libraire : 292523

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Our Mutual Friend‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1865. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter maroon morocco marbled boards and matching endpapers and edges. Very good. 2 vols. Marcus Stone. 320 & 309 PAGES. 22.5 X 15 cm. 40 engraved plates illustrated by Marcus Stone. The title to the book was selected four years before the issue but Dickens' effort to keep "All The Year Round" afloat and his illnesses compelled him to write at a diminished speed. It became clear that Dickens was moving gradually downward. The astonishing fact remained that he did so well with some of the characterizations." see: ECKEL p.94. HATTON & CLEAVER pp. 345-370. Plates and text clean raised bands black leather spine label some extremity rubbing. Chapman and Hall hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 21888

‎Dickens Charles. 1812 1870. Rimmer Alfred‎

‎ABOUT ENGLAND With DICKENS‎

‎London: Chatto & Windus 1899. 1st edition thus NCBEL III 848. Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & a graphic in black to front board. Cocked. Spine a bit dull. Frontis tissue guard age-toned. Very Good. ix 1 blank 307 1 pp including Index. 58 woodcut illustrations. 8vo. 7-3/8" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : 44675.2

‎DICKENS John FORSTER.‎

‎The Life of Charles Dickens. With 500 portraits facsimiles and other illustrations. Collected arranged and annotated by B.W. Matz.‎

‎London:: Chapman and Hall 1911. 1911. 2 volumes. Memorial edition. 8vo. xxxiv 481 1; xxvi 514 1 pp. 2 frontispieces numerous plates index. Original blue blind and gilt-stamped cloth with Forster’s and Dickens’ initials in gilt to top boards t.e.g. Very good. Chapman and Hall, 1911. hardcover books‎

Référence libraire : LV1978

‎Dickens Charles; Percy Fitzgerald Notes & Comm.‎

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

‎2010. ISBN-13: 978-1-61619rial-3;ISBN-10:1-61619-045-0. 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. London: Elliot Stock 1902. vii 116 pp. Illustrated. Reprinted 2005 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616190453. Paperback. Corners lightly bumped otherwise fine. $20. 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

Référence libraire : 57415 ISBN : 1616190450 9781616190453

‎Dickens Charles; Percy Fitzgerald Notes & Comm.‎

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

‎2010. ISBN-13: 978-1-61619-045-3;ISBN-10:1-61619-045-0. 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. London: Elliot Stock 1902. vii 116 pp. Illustrated. Reprinted 2005 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616190453. Paperback. Corners lightly bumped otherwise fine. $20. 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

Référence libraire : 57413 ISBN : 1616190450 9781616190453

‎Dickens Charles; Percy Fitzgerald Notes & Comm.‎

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

‎2010. ISBN-13: 9781616190453; ISBN-10: 1616190450. 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 2010 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781616190453; ISBN-10: 1616190450. Paperback. New. $10.95 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

Référence libraire : 56534 ISBN : 1616190450 9781616190453

‎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

Référence libraire : 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

Référence libraire : 04955

‎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

Référence libraire : 1002625

‎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

Référence libraire : 04558

‎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

Référence libraire : 109280

‎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

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‎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

Référence libraire : 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

Référence libraire : 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

Référence libraire : 108352