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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎A Christmas Carol illustrated classic edition‎

‎Baronet Books. PAPERBACK. B003RU55CI Thousands of Happy Customers! . Good. Baronet Books paperback‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1837. First Edition With Early Issue Points. Octavo 609 pages; VG; Bound in brown cloth front board and spine rebacked rear board new; some foxing to plates; Has four of the seven Smith points: Page 341 line 1: Correct reading of "inde-licate;" Page 342 line 5: "S. Veller" uncorrected Page 432 headline: "F" in "OF" imperfect Page 400 line 21: "this friends" for "his friends."; contains the two "suppressed" plates by Robert William Buss from Part Three The Cricket Match Ch. 7 opposite p. 69 and The Arbor Scene Ch. 8 opposite p. 74 "neither of which gave Dickens satisfaction" Hatton & Cleaver p. 20 in their first state; lacking illustrated title page; shelved case 4. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 9-3-1287110

‎DICKENS Charles.‎

‎The poor traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: And Mrs. Gamp.‎

‎By Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall 193 Piccadilly 1864. F’cap 8vo; half-title not called for; final leaf integral advertisements for the ‘Illustrated Library Edition’ and the ‘Cheap and Uniform Edition’ verso blank; pp.114ii; lime green wrappers printed on sides in black the front wrapper not bearing a date the back wrapper advertising under the heading ‘Cheap and uniform editions Of Mr. Dickens’s Christmas Books’ the four titles already published in the series i.e. the whole series except for the present title; issued without free end-papers. Slight chipping to paper of spine; light marking to first and last two leaves and a very few fox-spots; extensive pencilled excision marks and alterations to the text of ‘The Poor Traveller’ evidently intended to produce a shorter reading version v. note; otherwise a nice copy. The alterations to the text are in a hand closely resembling Dickens’ own and some of them - in particular the addition of the word ‘above’ after ‘gallery’ in l.10 on p.30 and the substitution of ‘his history’ for ‘everything’ at l.15 on p.18 which are not necessitated by any of the cuts and are in fact mainly stylistic changes - are of a kind that one would not expect unless they were authorial. The excision marks the text to be omitted outlined in pencil with the outlined area being filled by cross-hatching or diagonal strokes is a method known to have been used by Dickens for a similar purpose in other reading copies. In a few places a word or a sentence has been underlined for emphasis when reading this also being the general habit of the author. One or two other marks are less interpretable but may be intended to indicate ‘louder’ or ‘softer’. Though there is no sign of provenance the volume was purchased in 2008 at the Bloomsbury Auction sale of the residue of the Dobson family papers as part of a bundle and it may have come to them directly from a Dickens family source. Philip Collins Charles Dickens: The Public Readings Clarendon Press Oxford 1975 p.155 declares that the volume “has not been reprinted since the 1858 trade edition†which given the date on the title-page of the present copy is evidently false. Though printed by Bradbury and Evans like the 1858 edition this copy bears the publisher’s imprint of Chapman and Hall on both the title-page and cover the cover imprints having for both publisher and printer an ampersand instead of the word ‘and’ and would appear to rank as the first Chapman and Hall edition. The relationship between both the printed and the adapted text here and that of the ‘prompt copy’ text recorded by Collins is unclear this copy retaining in the printed version some text excised from the prompt copy before it was printed and excluding some text that the prompt copy retains while the revised text coincides with the post-printing revisions in the prompt copy on occasion but elsewhere differs the major difference in this shortened version being the entire exclusion of Mary Marshall as a character though she is still referred to at the start as the reason for Richard Doubledick having signed up. There is evidence that the cuts were made in two distinct series. It was frequent publisher’s practice at the time to date volumes a year ahead in which case this copy may actually have been ready or published in 1863 and may conceivably have been used as part of Dickens’s preparation for a reading he gave in London on the 12th of June though it is more probable perhaps that it may relate simply to the reading given in Glasgow on the 25th of February 1869 which as recorded in the Letters his agent Dolby rather to his annoyance advertised by mistake. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. unknown‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club‎

‎New York: Dodd Mead and Company 1930. Octavo; G/no-DJ; Black spine with gold text; Boards have slight general shelf wear with lightly sunned spine and wear at edges of spine otherwise sturdy; Text block has age toned exterior and shows slight wear due to handling deckled fore edge and unmarked pages; pp 687. Shelved Rockville Bookstore. <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead and Company hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7-3-1281147

‎CHARLES DICKENS‎

‎BARNABY RUDGE AND MASTER HUMPHREYS CLOCK‎

‎BLACKWOOD SCOTT. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. BLACKWOOD, SCOTT unknown‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. With Twelve Illustrations by S. L. Filder and a Portrait‎

‎London: Chapman & Hall Ltd 1870. First edition. Octavo in green hardcovers with black and gold gilt; VG; moderate soiling and fraying on boards; open gutter at center but good binding; library sticker inside front cover; pencil inscription and seal on end pages; paper faded with minor foxing; text clean; pp. 190; shelved in Case # 4. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall, Ltd hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 9-140-1271265

‎Dickens AG‎

‎La contre-rforme‎

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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : GRP93017772

‎Charles Dickens‎

‎Hard Times Real Reads‎

‎Real Reads. Paperback. Used; Good. Simply Brit Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time. We have dispatched from our book depository; items of good condition to over ten million satisfied customers worldwide. We are committed to providing you with reliable and efficient service at all times. 11/25/2007 Real Reads paperback‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎His Tragedy and Triumph 2 vol. set‎

‎New York: Simon and Schuster 1952. Reprint. Octavo; VG/no-DJ; spines gray with red spine labels gilt lettering; boards strong clean minor stain on spine head of volume two minor scratching on front cover of volume one light wear on edges and spine heads minimal edgewear no marks or stains; textblock clean minimal wear bookplates on front free end papers top edges colored red no writing/markings no underlining. pp. 1157 over two volumes. Shelved Rockville Bookstore. <br/><br/> Simon and Schuster hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7-3-1261313

‎Dickens Doris; Whitear AR. illustrator A. R.‎

‎Pam Prudie and Pip‎

‎London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd 1965. First Editon. Octavo; VG/no-DJ; spine white with partial image from front and pink blank; boards strong fairly clean some wear at spine head and tail some wear on back joint of spine minor edgewear; textblock clean no marks or writing no stains. no pagination. Shelved Rockville Bookstore. <br/><br/> Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons Ltd hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7-48-1258713

‎Charles Dickens Samuel A. Dalton‎

‎Excerpts From The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens A short one showing among other matters how Mr. Pickwick undertook to drive and Mr. Winkle to Ride; and how they both did it‎

‎Philadelphia: Kurt Gaebel & Sons 1967. Number one thousand and three of thirteen hundred copies. Number one thousand and three of thirteen hundred copies; Octavo; VG/no-DJ slipcase; Spine is thin tan and fabric edge of slipcase no text; Slipcase is sunned general lights signs of shelf wear some very light rubbing sturdy and intact; Boards Have very little signs of shelf wear some minor rubbing to boards and edges here and there joints and hinges are strong design is clear; Text block shows minimal signs of handling some very light age-toning content is clear binding is strong; pp 30. Shelved Rockville Bookstore. <br/><br/> Kurt Gaebel & Sons hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7-3-1259046

‎Charles Dickens Samuel A. Dalton‎

‎Mr. Pickwick Journeys to Ipswich and Meets With a Romantic Adventure With a Middle-aged Lady in Yellow Curl Papers Excerpts from the Pickwick Papers‎

‎Philadelphia: Oldach & Son 1965. Number one hundred and three of thirteen hundred copies. Number one hundred and fifty eight of thirteen hundred copies; Octavo; VG/no-DJ slipcase; Spine is fabric thin and light green edge of slipcase no text; Slipcase has some general marks and small stains general lights signs of shelf wear some very light rubbing sturdy and intact; Boards Have very little signs of shelf wear some minor rubbing to boards and edges here and there spine is sunned joints and hinges are strong design is clear; Text block shows minimal signs of handling some very light age-toning content is clear binding is strong; pp 44. Shelved Rockville Bookstore. <br/><br/> Oldach & Son hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7-3-1259049

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎Christmas Stories‎

‎Whitman WI 1951dj #2144 Illustrated by Robert Paflin. Dust jacket is in good condition with edge wear and the book is in very good condition. Whitman, WI, 1951dj , #2144 unknown‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎A Tale Of Two Cities‎

‎Parent's Magazine Press NY 3rd Printing 1954 Pictorial boards. Former library book with few markings/stamps and book is in very good condition. Parent's Magazine Press, NY, 3rd Printing, 1954 hardcover‎

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‎Dickens Charles Illustrated by Pablo Marcos Studio‎

‎David Copperfield‎

‎NY: Baronet Books 1952 Glossy Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Thus. Private Press. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. This book has a name inked inside the front cover otherwise it is pristine inside. The glossy covers are in fine condition. NY: Baronet Books, 1952 unknown‎

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‎Dickens Charles‎

‎THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB‎

‎London: Chapman and Hall 1887. First Edition. Octavo; G/No jacket; Bound in 3/4 brown leather; NOTE: Tipped-in autograph of Charles Dickens on front paste down Gilt lettering and 4 raised bands on spine; Some wear to all sides and spine; Some bumping and fraying to the corners and along the spine edges; Marbled end papers; Some cracking to binding at the gutter repaired at front by tape; Binding tight; Pages discolored and toned plates darkened; First Edition early issue points: Includes "suppressed plates" by William Buss; page 341 "inde-licate"; NOTE: previous owner has hand-corrected point on 342 and crossed out original error: Page 400: "this friends" instead of "his friends"; Page 432: "F" in headline "OF" is imperfect. ; shelved in Case # 4. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 9-3-1243708

‎Dickens Charles‎

‎THE LAMPLIGHTER. A FARCE IN ONE ACT AND AS A SHORT STORY‎

‎New York: D. Appleton 1926. first edition. thin small octavo in grey hard covers with blue letters in frame; VG; spine in beige light cloth; boards with substantial soiling; illustrated flaps; previous owner's penciled inscription on ffep; open gutter; edges slightly stained; text clean; pp. 83; shelved in theater section. Shelved Rockville Bookstore. <br/><br/> D. Appleton hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 7-33-1236433

‎DICKENS Charles.‎

‎The Mudfog papers Etc.‎

‎By Charles Dickens Author of “The Pickwick Papers†etc. Now first collected. London: Richard Bentley and Son Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen 1880. All rights reserved. Lge.f’cap 8vo wire-stitched; half-title not called for; one illustration on text-paper unbacked but included in the pagination; 6pp. integral advertisements at end; pp.iv198vi; diagonally fine-ribbed light scarlet cloth blocked with publisher’s motto and monogram device black on back cover ruled and blocked black on sides and spine blocked and lettered black on front cover lettered with short rule gilt on spine; end-papers faced black. Top- and fore- edges a trifle foxed; otherwise a near-fine copy of a book now rather scarce due to its originally somewhat delicate binding and the tendency of wire-stitched volumes to disintegrate. Issued according to the advertisements as volume XIII of Bentley’s Empire Library. Papers contributed to the early numbers of ‘Bentley’s Miscellany’ here first collected. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : CRT101071

‎DICKENS Charles‎

‎and HIS GHOST.‎

‎The Mystery Of Edwin Drood. Complete. By Charles Dickens. Brattleboro Vt.: Published by T.P. James 1873. Med.8vo; binder’s blank at front and back; half-title not called for; title-page to Part Second with copyright notice on verso dedication leaf 4pp. Medium’s Preface signed by Thos. P. James Brattleboro Vt. September 25 1873 4pp. Author’s Preface and Contents leaf follow general title-page; pp.xvi488; bevelled rust brown fine sand grain cloth ruled and blocked blind on sides blocked and lettered gilt on front cover ruled blocked and lettered gilt on spine; brown and white head and tail bands; pale buff end-papers. Neat restorations to cloth at head and tail of spine and spine slightly spotted; cloth a little worn at corners; otherwise a nice copy. Not in the CBEL list of continuations nor in Sadleir nor Wolff. The second title-page reads: ‘Part second Of the Mystery of Edwin Drood. By the spirit-pen of Charles Dickens Through a medium. Embracing also that part of the Work which was published prior to the Termination of the Author’s Earth-Life. “Cogito ergo sum.†Brattleboro Vt.: Published by T.P. James 1873.’ The book was printed and bound in Springfield Mass. by Clark W. Bryan & Company. Dickens campaigned vigorously during his lifetime against American piracies of his work. Here in his Preface written presumably from Heaven he omits to mention the reasons that have now induced him to dictate the unfinished portion of this novel to an American pirate. It is pleasing to see though that James did remember to copyright it! Being dead however is evidently to be avoided: it is bad for the style. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

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‎DICKENS Charles..‎

‎John Jasper’s Secret: Being A narrative of certain events Following and explaining “The Mystery of Edwin Drood.†With twenty illustrations.‎

‎London: Publishing Offices: No. 342 Strand 1872. Demy 8vo; half-title not called for; wood-engraved frontispiece and nineteen illustrations some signed ‘R.H.’; pp.iv252; publisher’s green crushed-morocco-grain leatherette ruled and blocked blind on sides and spine lettered gilt on spine; end-papers coated pale yellow. Unobtrusive restoration to tail of front joint; plate 9 ‘The Daughter of her Father’s House’ omitted by an original binding fault and plate 10 ‘The China Shepherdess makes an Accusation’ bound in twice; one or two leaves or sections a little proud apparently reflecting the fact that the volume is made up from untrimmed parts; otherwise and in general effect a very nice copy. Almost certainly published during 1871 but dated ahead as was the common British practice at the time. The American edition published by Peterson and Bros. in Philadelphia was so dated. It bore the title ‘John Jasper’s Secret: a Sequel to Edwin Drood’ that being also what appears on the spine of the present volume and it contains two fewer plates. CBEL III p.444 giving the date as 1871; Sadleir 705; not in Wolff. Attributed to Henry Morford. Stab-holes make clear that the present copy has been bound up from the original eight parts. All books listed by Robert Temple are first editions unless otherwise stated. hardcover‎

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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

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‎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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 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

Referenz des Buchhändlers : HRT104822