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Macmillan & Co Ltd, London publishers [Charles Dickens; William Makepeace Thackeray; Thomas Hardy; Charles Kingsley; F Marion CrBiblio.com

London publishers’ 1909 catalogue. Printed catalogue of ‘Macmillan’s Three-and-Sixpenny Library of Books by Popular Authors’; with separate prospectus for ‘The Novels of Charles Dickens’ in ‘Macmillan’s 3s. 6d. Series’.

Best.-Nr. 24708Macmillan & Co Ltd. London. The catalogue by ‘J. Palmer Printer Cambridge’ and dated ‘20. 8. 09’ i.e. 20 August 1909. Dickens prospectus undated. Two pieces of uncommon Edwardian bibliographical ephemera. Both items worn and aged and the catalogue somewhat dogeared. Both with some pencil marking. ONE 1909 catalogue: 32pp 12mo. Drophead title on first page: ‘Macmillan’s Three-and-Sixpenny Library of Books by Popular Authors / Crown 8vo.’ The first two pages carry a description of the series which ‘comprises over four hundred volumes in various departments of Literature. Prominent among them is a new and attractive edition of The Works of Thackeray issued under the editorship of Mr. Lewis Melville. . The Works of Charles Dickens reprinted from the first editions with all the Original Illustrations and with Introductions Biographical and Bibliographical by Charles Dickens the Younger’. Other authors whose works feature in the list are Charles Lever Sir Walter Scott Thomas Hardy Mr. F. Marion Crawford Rolf Boldrewood Mr. H. G. Wells Gertrude Atherton Mr. Egerton Castle Mr. A. E. W. Mason Maarten Maartens and Miss Rosa Nouchette Carey’ as well as Charles Kingsley Frederick Denison Maurice Thomas Hughes Dean Farrar Charlotte M. Yonge Mrs. Craik and Mrs. Oliphant. Descriptive text precedes the Thackeray and Scott editions and the Dickens and Scott editions each have a page of press opinions. Print runs are given for the 26 works by Rosa N. Carey and a total of ‘Over 700000 of these works have been printed’. TWO undated Dickens prospectus. 4pp 12mo bifolium on grey paper. First page headed ‘Macmillan’s 3s. 6d. Series’. Predating Item One since dates of publication without year are given for the first six volumes. The first page gives details of the edition the other three pages carry specimens: p.2 from the introduction to Pickwick Papers by ‘Mr. Charles Dickens the novelist’s eldest son’ p.3 a page from Pickwick Papers; p.4 an illustration ‘Mr. Pickwick in chase of his hat’ from the same. Macmillan & Co, Ltd., London. The catalogue by ‘J. Palmer, Printer, Cambridge’, and dated ‘20. 8. 09’, i.e. 20 August 19 unknown

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The Charles Dickens Testimonial, penny royalty stamp [ The Strand Magazine, London; royalties; copyright ]:Biblio.com

The Charles Dickens Testimonial. One penny royalty stamp for Dickens's descendants with copy of article from the Strand Magazine explaining the scheme titled 'The Charles Dickens Testimonial. Look Out for the Dickens Stamp!'

Best.-Nr. 16755The stamp issued in 1912 by The Charles Dickens Testimonial 17-21 Tavistock Street London WC. The article published by the Strand Magazine London. 1910 or 1911. On 7 January 1911 Beckles Willson Honorary Secretary of the Charles Dickens Testimonial explained the scheme to the readers of the Spectator. Three members of Dickens's family were Willson explained 'drawing a niggardly pension of £25 per annum from the British Government' and that 'no volume recently published of Dickens has returned any copyright fee save those which bear the Dickens copyright stamp'. The stamp was 'on sale for one penny each-in sheets of twelve-at every bookseller's in the land and at all Messrs. W. H. Smith's and Wyman's news-stalls. His Majesty the King her Majesty the Queen her Majesty Queen Alexandra and other members of the Royal Family ever ready to be the exemplars in every good and just cause have led the way by placing the copyright stamps in their volumes of Dickens. Their example has been followed by many of the leading statesmen lawyers authors actors editors and divines of the day. If every owner of Dickens will not shirk his penny a magnificent centenary tribute will be assured. For there are forty-eight million copies of Dickens extant.' The publishers Macmillan Willson continued had agreed 'to insert a Dickens stamp gratis in every volume of every edition of Dickens issued by them during the hundredth year of the novelist. The significance of this must not be overlooked. It means that for the first time in literary history the representatives of a great writer will he in receipt of a copyright fee not conferred by the action of the copyright laws ; small it is true but to which they are entitled as truly as the heirs of any landlord are entitled to receive tribute in the shape of rent.' The stamp offered here is printed in black ink on a piece of paper approximately 5 x 4 cm with perforated edges and gummed reverse. In very good condition. Priced at a penny with an oval portrait of Dickens within a border in the form of a carved wooden frame with 'A TRIBUTE TO GENIUS' and the dates 1812 and 1912 at the head the words 'CENTENARY TESTIMONIAL' around the portrait and a facsimile of Dickens's signature at the foot. The four-page article paginated 608-611 is on three leaves extracted from the Strand Magazine. Stapled together and in good condition. Includes full-page 'Unpublished Photograph of Dickens' taken by Thrupp of Birmingham in 1869. The article features a reproduction of the stamp and a list of the scheme's committee headed by the Earl of Rosebery and including Theodore Roosevelt Hilaire Belloc G. K. Chesterton Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Thomas Hardy Rudyard Kipling and more than fifty others. 'The actual design for the stamp has been evolved by a sub-committee comprising Lord Alverstone and Messrs. Brition Riviere R.A. H. Rider Haggard Clement K. Shorter and Sir Adolph Tuck Bart.' [ The stamp issued in 1912 by The Charles Dickens Testimonial, 17-21 Tavistock Street, London WC. ] The article published by the unknown

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Watts Phillips (1825-1874), playwright and novelist whose play 'The Dead Heart' inspired Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities' [FrederBiblio.com

Watts Phillips playwright and novelist. Autograph Letter Signed from Paris to the actor Frederick Vining discussing plans for writing his play ‘The Huguenot Captain’ which will be ‘my best piece’ and in which their interests ‘are identical'.

Best.-Nr. 2644618 August 1863; 29 Rue de Penthièvre. See his entry and that of the Vining family in the Oxford DNB as well as well as his sister Emma’s memoir. 3pp 12mo with the last page written lengthwise. Bifolium. Text clear and entire but in fair condition only on aged and worn paper with strip of tape from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf and short closed tears at foot of both leaves and tape repair. Folded once. Written in feverish style: one word is underlined seven times. Addressed to ‘My dear Vining’ and signed ‘Watts Phillips’. Regarding the play he is working on ‘The Huguenot Captain’ which would be produced in London in 1866 with Vining in the lead role he is writing ‘in haste to save post’ and to say that he will do his best to fulfil Vining’s ‘prophecy’ that ‘the “Captain” ill be my best piece’. For both their sakes he will ‘spare no pains to make it so - but - oh! mon ami! - how about the time. It is not a piece to be written helter-skelter. We must take the shine out of that Duke’s motto - and to do so requires much care and earnest thought’. Vining will require the piece by October of that year sic and he will ‘forward it act by act as rapidly as possible pushing on with so much haste as is consistent with the merits of a piece which I thing sic will prove a great ultimate advantage to you and to me’. He asks to be given time and for Vining to ‘stir me up by letters for as I see your anxiety grow my imagination will quicken’. He continues: ‘Let no time be lost in returning the Plot. I shall set to work at once in fact I am off to day to get some Callot sketches for the dances. / We shall have a Success I feel assured - but - dont hurry me more than is absolutely necessary’. Vining can always let him ‘know the truth’ as their ‘interests in such a matter as this are identical’. He ends by reiterating: ‘Depent upon me - but - as last words - remember “as much time as possible!” / Hurry return of plot ! ! !’ 18 August 1863; 29 Rue de Penthièvre. unknown

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