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75. [DICKENS, Charles] HEATH, William. Pickwickian Illustrations. T. McLean. 1837.
£850
8vo., sometine bound in patterned paper covered boards retaining the original gilt-lettered black paper label. 20 plates. A little loss to spine of wrappers, otherwise a very good clean set.
First edition with the publisher’s imprint on the first four plates. A scarce set of illustrations by William Heath who was the leading caricaturist, prolific alike in social and political satire, in London during the 1820s and early 1830s. “When on 1 January 1830 Thomas McLean, the leading purveyor of comic art, launched a monthly magazine of caricatures, available in plain and hand-coloured versions, called the Looking Glass, he advertised it as having been ‘drawn and etched’ by ‘William Heath’ for whom he acted as ‘sole Publisher’. Clearly Heath’s name was the selling point, yet after seven issues he was replaced by Robert Seymour. Perhaps McLean felt that Seymour’s lithographs better expressed the new spirit of delicacy to which he was attuning himself. Or perhaps he had become exasperated by Heath’s ‘careless habits—drink, debts and unpunctuality’ (a contemporary collector, quoted by George, Catalogue, 10.xciii). In any event, after 1830 Heath’s output of caricatures declined rapidly. He concentrated instead on topographical illustration, such as his panorama of Dover (1836).” (ODNB).
Notwithstanding McLean issued this series of Pickwickian Illustrations by Heath in 1837. Pickwick Papers, Dickens’s first novel was a great success and many other artists, beyond the three official illustrators, created drawings without the approval of the author or publisher, sometimes for bootleg copies or hoping that ‘Extra Plates’ for the original issue would be included in later issues. The artists included, as here, William Heath, Alfred Henry Forrester (“Alfred Crowquill”), Thomas Onwhyn (who sometimes signed as “Sam Weller”) and Thomas Sibson.
Yale/Gimbel H1089
76.DICKENS, Charles. The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain. A fancy for Christmas time. London: Bradbury and Evans, 11 Bouverie Street, 1848.
£498
8vo, newly rebound in half calf over marbled boards, top edges gilt, original cloth upper cover bound in at rear; engraved frontispiece, engraved additional title-page; engravings after J. Tenniel, C. Stanfield, R.A., F. Stone and J. Leech; a very nice copy.
First edition. The fifth and last of Dicken’s Christmas novellas which was performed as a play in 1862, an occasion notable for being the first public performance using the technique known as Pepper’s Ghost.
77. DICKENS, Charles. Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round. Chapman & Hall, 1865. £98
8vo, original blue paper wrappers; a very good copy. First appearance of this collection of short stories.
78. DICKENS, Charles. Mugby Junction. The Extra Christmas Number of All the Year Round. Chapman & Hall, 1866.
£78
8vo, original blue paper wrappers sometime rebacked. A little chipping and staining to wrapper. otherwise a very good copy.
First appearance of these tales which include Dickens’s famous ghost story ‘The Signalman’.
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79.DICKENS, Charles The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall. 1870.
£998
8vo. The original 6 monthly parts in wrappers; additional engraved title, engraved portrait, 12 wood-engraved plates by S.L. Fildes. Some wear to wrappers with loss to spines on several parts, a couple of repaired tears in Part II, some spotting, but generally a very good unsophisticated set, preserved in cloth fall-down-back box with leather label.
First edition. Dickens’s last novel, left unfinished at his death. Only these six of the projected twelve monthly numbers were written. There have been many attempts to complete the novel, the first as early as 1871-2 (by H. Morford and others).
This set includes most of the advertisements with the exceptions of: The advertisements at the back of Part II (including the elusive “Cork Hats”).
The advertisements at the back of Part IV for Wilcox & Gibbs (4pp) and Chapman and Hall (2pp). The advertisements at the back of Part V for Chapman and Hall (8pp).
The advertisements at the back of Part VI for Wilcox & Gibbs “Concerning Stitches” (4pp). This Part does include, however, an addition set of the 4pp Wilcox & Gibbs “A New World ar Home” adverts.
80. DICKENS, Charles. Chips from Dickens. Selected by Thomas Mason. New York. Frederick A. Stokes and Brother. [C. 1889].£298
32mo., 65 x 98mm, in original publisher’s stiff card wrappers with paper dust wrapper with a image of Dickens on upper wrapper. Text within red printed border. A couple of chips to wrapper, top edge trimmed , others untrimmed, ink inscription dated 1889, ink lettering added to the printed lettering on the front panel of the wrapper, otherwise a very good copy.
First US edition of this selection from Dickens’s works, produced in a miniature format. The first edition had been printed in Glasgow in 1884 by the leading miniature publisher, David Bryce.
A rare example in original publisher’s stiff card wrappers with printed and illustrated dust wrapper. Most copies of this scarce edition have been rebound and are slightly smaller as the untrimmed edges have been cut for gilding.
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