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Verlag: Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Half title, plates. With the original green variant cloth casing, bound into full green crushed morocco by Rivière & Son, spine gilt in compartments, triple-ruled borders & dentelles in gilt; spine very sl. faded. A very handsome copy. In cloth slipcase. A beautiful copy of the first one-volume edition, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with George Cruikshank's original watercolour design of Fagin in the Condemned Cell. This constitutes one of Cruikshank's finest and most recognisable Dickens illustration, portraying the wretched Fagin seated in his cell at Newgate, anxiously awaiting the day of his execution, and contemplating his demise. Bound in opposite the plate at p.304, the watercolour is signed by Cruikshank, and also adorned, in the lower margin, with a small self-portrait in pencil, and three further unidentified sketched portraits.
Verlag: London: Richard Bentley, 1838, 1838
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition in book form, first issue, with "Boz" title pages and the "Fireside" plate, in original cloth. Oliver Twist was first published serially between February 1837 and April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany, and in the present three-volume book by Richard Bentley in 1838 (six months before the initial serialization was complete). The novel remains one of the best-known of all works of English fiction. "Oliver Twist was originally conceived as a satire on the new poor law of 1834 which herded the destitute and the helpless into harshly run union workhouses, and which was perceived by Dickens as a monstrously unjust and inhumane piece of legislation (he was still fiercely attacking it in Our Mutual Friend in 1865). Once the scene shifted to London, however, Oliver Twist developed into a unique and compelling blend of a 'realistic' tale about thieves and prostitutes and a melodrama with strong metaphysical overtones. The pathos of little Oliver (the first of many such child figures in Dickens), the farcical comedy of the Bumbles, the sinister fascination of Fagin, the horror of Nancy's murder, and the powerful evocation of London's dark and labyrinthine criminal underworld, all helped to drive Dickens's popularity to new heights" (ODNB). Bentley rushed Oliver Twist out in book form before serialization was complete, forcing Cruikshank to hurry the last illustrations. Dickens disliked the final "Fireside" plate and asked Cruikshank for a new design, the "Church" plate. He also decided that he no longer wished to be styled "Boz". The first issue, as here, was published on 9 November; the second, with cancel titles, omitting the subtitle and giving Dickens's name as the author, and with the "Church" plate at the end, was issued on 16 November. This copy is in the horizontally ribbed cloth binding with an arabesque design measuring 135 x 70 mm. This is recorded by Smith as a binding variant (contrasting with a "fine-diaper cloth" and an arabesque design measuring 133 x 68 mm). Both bindings lack the publisher's imprint at the foot of the spine, as here. Eckel and Carter each regard the lack of the publisher's imprint as suggestive of early issue, and there is no known priority between the two bindings. The ownership inscriptions and bookplates identify this set from the Stucley family. Colonel Sir George Stucley (1812-1900), known as George Buck, the Conservative MP, married Lady Elizabeth O'Bryan, 4th daughter and co-heiress of William O'Brien, 2nd Marquess of Thomond, in 1835. Their eldest son, Lt.-Col. Sir William Lewis Stucley, 2nd Baronet (1836 1911) died without issue. Provenance: Elizabeth Rebecca Trotter (1775 1852), signature on the front free endpapers of vols. I and II as "The Marchioness of Thomond"); Lt. Colonel Stucley (1836-1911), armorial bookplate on front pastedowns. Eckel, pp. 59-62; Smith I, pp. 30-7. 3 volumes, octavo. Original reddish brown horizontally ribbed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, covers with arabesque design in blind, yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. Housed in a custom brown morocco-backed folding box. Complete with 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank including the "Fireside" plate (facing p. 313 in vol. III), half-titles to vols. I and II as issued, publisher's advertisements at end of vol. I and beginning of vol. III. Ownership signatures to two volumes, armorial bookplates to all volumes. Spines a little sunned and slightly skewed, some light soiling, extremities a little worn, occasional minor splitting to joints, some foxing and browning, several plates with imprints cropped or shaved as usual, small abrasion to title page of vol. III: a very good set.
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. The first edition, first issue, in book form, published before the magazine serialization was completed. In original cloth. Very good condition. Housed in a custom case with a leather spine. This, the first issue, has the "Fireside" plate in volume 3 and Boz listed as the author on all title pages. It was issued on November 9, 1838. At Dicken's insistence, the Fireside plate was replaced with the "Church" plate, and Dickens's name replaced Boz, and the book was reissued in three volumes a mere 7 days after the first issue, on November 16, 1838.
Verlag: Richard Bentley, London, 1838
Anbieter: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, USA
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Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. First issue with Boz listed as the author on all title pages, and with the Fireside plate as the final plate in Volume III. [i-iv], [1]2-331[1, blank[, [4 ads]; [i-iv], [1]2-307[308]; [i-iv], [1]2-315[316] (no half-title called for in Vol. III.). Twenty-four inserted plates by George Cruikshank. Bound in publisher's primary original reddish-brown cloth decorated in blind arabesque pattern on on front cover with spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight fading to spines, cloth lightly marked. Several previous owner names and bookplates to front and rear pastedowns. Rear inner hinge of Volume I started at top. Spine cloth of Volume III partially split along rear joint and large corner of rear free endpaper has been filled in, otherwise free of restoration work. A fantastic set or one of Dickens' best-known works, in the original cloth.
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first issue title pages (author noted as Boz, no mention of Dickens], and with the suppressed "Fireside" illustration. 24 plates by Cruikshank. 20.6 x 13 cm. 3 volumes, very good in original cloth. 8 vo. In a handsome custom-made collector's case with leather spine and gold gilt lettering.
Verlag: Richard Bentley, London, 1838
Anbieter: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, USA
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First edition, with "By Boz" to each title page and the "Rose Maylie" plate present. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full brown calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, triple ruled gilt to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, top edge gilt.ÂIn near fine condition with light rubbing. "Dickens turned in Oliver Twist to the novel of crime and terror Some characters are drawn with humorous realism, but for the most part humor is dimmed by gloomy memories of the author s own neglected childhood and sensational scenes are shrouded in an atmosphere genuinely eerie and sinister That Dickens shared with his contemporaries the conviction that the novel should be an instrument of social reform is evident in Oliver Twist" (Baugh).
hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. First edition, three volumes, original cloth, with author "Boz" not "Charles Dickens" on title page of each volume. Not Fireside plate in volume three. Preliminary ad page in front of volume three missing bottom 1 1/2 inches. The true first edition listing "Box" as author in the original cloth is uncommon and preferred by collectors.
Verlag: Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, successors to Carey & Co., 1839 [though December 1838], 1839
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First US edition of one of the best-known of all works of English fiction, unrestored in the original quarter cloth. Oliver Twist was first serialized in the UK in Bentley's Miscellany from February 1837 to April 1839. Before serialization was complete, the full novel was issued in the UK in book form in November 1838. The publishing history of the first US edition is complicated. Dickens's works did not have copyright protection in the US, to his irritation, and his novels were subject to rapid competing piracies. Lea and Blanchard made a payment of £50 to Dickens, and £60 to his UK publisher Richard Bentley, in return for advance sheets of Oliver Twist to gain an advantage over other American publishers. From these advance sheets, Lea and Blanchard issued a separate part serialization, and planned a one-volume illustrated edition, which was indeed the first printed in early December 1838. However, delays in receiving Cruikshank's illustrations from the UK ensured the sheets of the one-volume edition were not published until 2 February 1839. Lea and Blanchard feared their competitors would publish first, pirating copies of the UK edition which were making their way over the Atlantic. They quickly printed this two-volume edition, published on 19 December 1838, the title page post-dated 1839. Gimbel A33; Walter Smith, Charles Dickens: A Bibliography of his First American Editions, 2012, pp. 83-7. See Kathleen Tillotson, "The Philadelphia editions of 1838-9", in The Clarendon Edition of Oliver Twist, 1966. 2 volumes, octavo. Original purple quarter cloth, printed paper label to spines, drab paper-covered sides. Housed in a brown half calf solander box. With 2 pages of preliminary advertisements in vol. I (first state, signed with an asterisk but not "1"), and 16 pages in vol. II (some copies have 12 pages, without established priority). Contemporary ownership signature of one Joseph Hall to front free endpaper of each volume; recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box. Light sunning to spines, slight wear to labels and corners, contents a little browned and foxed as usual, vol. I a little shaken, pp. 155/6 of same with 80 mm closed tear affecting pagination and headline without loss, pp. 81/2 of vol. II with 81 mm closed tear into text without loss. A very good copy.
Verlag: c.1885, 1885
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Published by Robson & Kerslake within their 1885 edition of Dickens's Oliver Twist, and later published as Twenty-one illustrations to Oliver Twist the following year by the same publishers. In 1899, George Somes Layard wrote that Pailthorpe was "the last illustrator to carry on the tradition of Cruikshank and H. K. Browne". Frederick W. Pailthorpe (1838-1914), the etcher and illustrator, also published illustrations for The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club in 1882 and Great Expectations in 1885. The artist noted that, of his Dickens illustrations, "I don't think the Oliver Twist is the worst of the three". Simon Houfe states that the artist's watercolours "are very Georgian in spirit and reminiscent of the work of H. K. Browne" (p. 250). The 20 watercolours, presented here, are titled: 1. "Oliver is taken to the workhouse", 2. "Goodness gracious! is that you, Mr Bumble, Sir?", 3. "Did you want a coffin, Sir?", 4. "Noah Claypole running for Mr Bumble", 5. "Good-bye, dear! God bless you!", 6. "Hullo! my covey, what's the row?", 7. "The merry old gentleman's pretty little game", 8. "The return of the boys without Oliver", 9. "Look here! do you see this?", 10. "The horse whose health had been drunk", 11. "Inexplicable conduct of Mr Bumble", 12. "The Free and Easy", 13. "Master O-li-ver!", 14. "Bumble Triumphant", 15. "Mr Crackit's good natur'", 16. "Has it long gone the half-hour?", 17. "A foul deed", 18. "The antic fellow and Sikes", 19. "The inconvenience of having long legs", 20. "Don't come near me, you monster!" This set lacks the final illustration ("Mr Claypole earning a genteel subsistence") and an autograph letter signed from the illustrator to an early owner, which are noted in previous auction records. Nevertheless, original artwork for Dickens novels is rare and this is a very attractive group. Provenance: C. E. Lauriat (c. 1913); Seth E. Thomas, Jr. (sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, 10/11 January 1949); Saul Cohn (sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, 18/19 October 1955). Layard, "Suppressed Plates", The Pall Mall Magazine, March 1899, pp. 341-8; Houfe, The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists, 1998. 20 original drawings (average 100 x 80 mm) on tissue paper (average 135 x 100 mm), each laid down to boards (216 x 137mm), pencil and watercolour, each captioned and signed ("F.W. Pailthorpe"), first board inscribed "These 21 sketches to Oliver Twist are by me - F.W. Pailthorpe". Housed in a custom full green morocco folding case by Riviere. Watercolours bright and unfaded, some consistent browning, closed tears to tissue paper for nine watercolours (numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 17, 18 and 20); folding case sunned at spine with losses to watered silk lining. A very good set.
Verlag: Richard Bentley. 1838, 1838
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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FIRST EDITION, 1st issue. 3 vols. Half titles vols I & II, plates. Beautifully bound in early 20thC full tan calf by Henry Young & Sons, Liverpool, gilt spines, borders & dentelles, maroon & olive green morocco labels Booklabels of Frank Graham, Newcastle. a.e.g. A v.g. attractive copy. Smith I, 4. The first issue, with 'Boz' and the subtitle 'The parish boy's progress' on the titlepage, and Cruikshank's 'Fireside' plate in vol. III.
Verlag: Richard Bentley, London, 1838
Anbieter: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, USA
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First edition, first issue of Dickens' classic work. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters leather, gilt titles to the spine, with 24 plates by George Cruikshank. In near fine condition. An exceptional example. "Dickens turned in Oliver Twist to the novel of crime and terror Some characters are drawn with humorous realism, but for the most part humor is dimmed by gloomy memories of the author s own neglected childhood and sensational scenes are shrouded in an atmosphere genuinely eerie and sinister That Dickens shared with his contemporaries the conviction that the novel should be an instrument of social reform is evident in Oliver Twist" (Baugh).
Verlag: Richard Bentley. 1838, 1838
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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FIRST EDITION, 1st issue. 3 vols. Occasional spotting to plates. Handsomely bound without half titles or ads in recent full dark green morocco, red morocco labels, spines gilt in compartments. a.e.g. v.g. Smith 4. The first issue, with 'Boz' and the subtitle 'The parish boy's progress' on the titlepage, and Cruikshank's 'Fireside' plate in vol. III.
Verlag: London Richard Bentley, 1838
Anbieter: Shapero Rare Books, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First edition, first issue; 3 vols, 12mo (19.5 x 12.5 cm); 24 etched plates (including frontispieces) after George Cruikshank, including 'Fireside' plate, one plate trimmed and 2 with small stains in margins, 'Fireside' and one other plate with repairs at foot; lacking half-titles, list of plates and advertisements, small area of toning to lower-right corner of vol. II pp.213-255, occasional spotting throughout; recent green crushed half morocco for Sotheran, green cloth, gilt panelled spines, top edge gilt, preserved in cloth slipcase, case with minor discolouration and wear to corners. The first edition, first issue of Charles Dicken's (1812-1870) second (and arguably his most famous) novel Oliver Twist. Published six months prior to the completion of the story in serial-format in Bentley's Miscellany, this 1838 edition marked the first time that Dicken's full work appeared in print. This first issue carries the 'Fireside' plate, the last illustration in vol. III, facing p.312. 'When Bentley decided to publish Oliver in book form before its completion in his periodical, Cruikshank had to complete the last few plates in haste. Dickens did not review them until the eve of publication and objected to the Fireside plate. Dickens had Cruikshank design a new plate which retained the same title and showed Rose and Oliver standing before the tablet put up in the church to the memory of Oliver's mother. This Church plate was not completed in time for incorporation into the early copies of the book, but it replaced the Fireside plate in later copies.' (Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, vol. I, p.35). Eckel 59; Gimbel A27; Smith I, 4; Sadleir 696.
Verlag: London, Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1838
Anbieter: Sokol Books Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Three volumes. Pp. 331; 307; 315, with advertisements, illustrated. Original publisher s cloth with spine title: Oliver Twist. Boz. Vol I [III]. London. Bentley. Clean and well preserved, largely untrimmed, minor spine repair, in box. FIRST EDITION, Third Issue, the Charles Dickens Issue. With the 24 etchings on steel by George Cruikshank. Copies of the Boz-issue (i.e. First Edition, 1st and 2nd issues) are now much more readily available than either the Charles Dickens-issue or the Second Edition (Tillotson p. xlviii). Eckel p. 59-63.
Verlag: Lea & Blanchard, successors to Carey & Co, Philadelphia, 1839
Anbieter: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, USA
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First American edition, first state. First American edition with first state ad at front of first volume. [ii ads and publisher's notice], iv, [13-]14-224; iv [3]-196, [16 catalogue] pp. Bound in publisher's brown boards with red calico-texture quarter cloth, paper spine label. Very Good with repairs to joints and hinges, front board of Vol. 1 relaid onto spine, boards soiled, worn, and well-rubbed, light foxing, staining, and toning to contents. Despite repairs hinges a bit fragile. Vol. II dampstained prelims with some stains trailing off that; pages 41/42 horizontal split repaired with archival tape, repaired chip to pp. 99/100; small hole to 128/129; worming to inner margins of pp. 185-196 and first three leaves of ads at rear. Copy of Elvia A. Haines with her penciled inscriptions on paste downs and poem written on rear paste down of second volume. Smith Charles Dickens First American Editions pp. 84-87. The first complete edition of Dickens' famous novel hastily issued without Cruikshank's illustrations on December 19, 1838 with a title page dated for the upcoming year. Rare, especially in the publisher's bindings.
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Three volumes, first edition, first issue, with "Boz" as author and "fireside" plate in Vol. 3. Rebound in handsome decorated leather binding. Repair to hinge in volume 1, volume 2 has some pages cut at the bottom, not affecting text. With the bookplate of Ralph Clutton, probably Rev. Ralph Clutton, vicar of Horsted Keynes, whose family later created a prominent real estate business still in operation today.
Anbieter: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, USA
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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).
Verlag: Richard Bentley, London, 1838
Anbieter: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, USA
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Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first issue with Boz listed as the author on all title pages, and with the Fireside plate as the final plate in Volume III. Bound in early three-quarter leather over marbled paper, all edges marbled. Spines darkened, with cracking and repairs evident on the third volume, hinges rubbed. Pages toned, plates are browned and foxed. A lovely set.
Verlag: Richard Bentley, London, 1838
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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Leather. Zustand: Very Good. [George Cruikshank] (illustrator). First edition. The first edition, second issue, of Charles Dickens' best known novel, an illustrated work with the original George Cruikshank plates. First edition, second issue, 'Charles Dickens' attributed as the author to the title pages, and with 'Church' plate in Volume 3, replacing the cancelled 'Fireside' plate, and 'pilaster' for 'pier' or 'pedestal' to page 164 Volume III.Complete in three volumes.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, and eight plates.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, and five plates.Volume III illustrated with a frontispiece, and seven plates.Collated, lacking one plate, 'Mr. Bumble Degraded in the Eyes of the Paupers'.Bound without half-titles to Volumes I and II, Volume III was issued without half-title, and bound without adverts.As with Dickens' other works, 'Oliver Twist' was first serialised, from February 1837 to April 1839 in 'Bentley's Miscellany'.'Oliver Twist' is Dickens' best known novel, an exploration of child labour, domestic violence, and street children in Victorian England.Illustrated by George Cruikshank. In a half morocco binding with cloth to the boards.Externally, a little rubbed. Crack to the head of the front joint of Volume I, with a small amount of loss. Minor bumping to the extremities. Some light marks to the boards and spine. A small amount of loss of leather to the head of the rear board of Volume I. Front hinge of Volumes I and III are starting but firm. Bookseller's label to the front paste downs. Internally, Volume III is firmly bound. Volume II is generally firmly bound, Volume I is generally firmly bound, page 153/154 and plate facing page 152 working loose. Pages are a little age-toned with some spots, spotting heavier to the plates. Bound without adverts, half-titles, and one plate to Volume II. Very Good. book.
Verlag: London: for the author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846, 1846
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First one-volume edition of Dickens's second novel. This single volume was substantially revised by Dickens, who had bought back his copyright from the original publisher Bentley; many of his revisions were in the direction of a more dramatic rendering of the text, in light of his experience of public readings. Oliver Twist was first published serially between February 1837 and April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany, and as a three-volume book by Richard Bentley in 1838 (six months before the initial serialization was complete). "Oliver Twist was originally conceived as a satire on the new poor law of 1834 which herded the destitute and the helpless into harshly run union workhouses, and which was perceived by Dickens as a monstrously unjust and inhumane piece of legislation (he was still fiercely attacking it in Our Mutual Friend in 1865). Once the scene shifted to London, however, Oliver Twist developed into a unique and compelling blend of a 'realistic' tale about thieves and prostitutes and a melodrama with strong metaphysical overtones. The pathos of little Oliver (the first of many such child figures in Dickens), the farcical comedy of the Bumbles, the sinister fascination of Fagin, the horror of Nancy's murder, and the powerful evocation of London's dark and labyrinthine criminal underworld, all helped to drive Dickens's popularity to new heights" (ODNB). Gimbel A39; Carr B98. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and blocked in gilt, covers panelled in blind, gilt garland to front cover, repeated in blind to rear cover, light yellow endpapers. Frontispiece and 23 steel-engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Spine sunned, light wear to cloth around extremities and some superficial splitting to rear joint, some minor marks within but on the whole clean and fresh, very good condition overall.
hardcover. Zustand: very good. first. First UK edition, 3 volumes, rebound in leather and marbled paper. With Boz as author to title pages, "By Boz". Books in very good condition, covers and fine. Some foxing.
Verlag: Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, successor to Carey & Co. 1839, 1839
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Ad. leaf preceding titlepage vol. I, 16pp cata. vol. II (New and Valuable Books); text block a little browned, first gathering in vol. I a little carelessly opened, not affecting text. Vol. I lacks leading f.e.p. Orig. drab boards, maroon cloth spine, paper labels a little darkened; corners a little rubbed, spines faded to brown & sl. rubbed at head & tail. Smith USA I, 3, indicating the work was actually issued in October 1838. Overall a very decent copy of the first full American edition, hastily issued before the completion of a serialised edition which had commenced earlier in 1838. The Publisher's Notice in Vol. I explains that due to the haste in presenting the completed work before the public, they regret 'the illustrations by Cruikshank were not ready to accompany the manuscript from London'.
Verlag: Chapman and Hall, London
Anbieter: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, USA
Complete set of Charles Dickens' works. Octavo, 30 volumes, bound in three quarters leather over marbled boards, gilt tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated throughout. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. Charles Dickens is generally considered the greatest writer of the Victorian period. His works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy. "His imaginative freshness, his deep and sincere tenderness and pity, his whole-souled humor that is seldom sharpened into wit, his superabundance of creative energy, have built a deathless niche in the temple of fame for Charles Dickens" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 184).
Verlag: [c.1900-1930], 1930
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
A very attractive suite of watercolours by noted artist Joseph Clayton "Kyd" Clarke (1857-1937). This is a comprehensive collection showcasing Kyd's talent for characterization. Each portrait is signed by the artist in red ink as "Kyd" and titled in pencil lower left. The characters depicted are: Oliver Twist, Mr Bumble, Fagin, Monks, Bill Sikes, Nancy, Toby Crackit, the Artful Dodger, Charley Bates, Blathers, Duff, Mr Grimwig, Mr Brownlow, Mrs Corney, Barney, Tom Chitling, Noah Claypole, and Mr Sowerberry. Kyd's first Dickens illustrations appeared in 1887 in Fleet Street Magazine. They achieved immediate popularity, with two published collections appearing shortly after and numerous sets of postcards based on his Dickens drawings also released. After this initial success Kyd earned his living making watercolour sketches such as these, selling them to and through the London book trade. Even as early as 1890 his Dickens sketches were being sought by major Dickens collectors such as Thomas Wilson and the noted Hispanist Frederick Cosens, who are mentioned in the contemporary publication Dickens and his Illustrators (1899). The British Museum acquired a collection of 598 Kyd illustrations of Dickens in 1910, and the V&A, the Charles Dickens Museum, and the University of Texas each have a significant collection. Even today Dickens's larger-than-life characters are in part imagined through Kyd's depictions; in 2012 six of his illustrations were issued as stamps by the Royal Mail to mark the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth. Frederic Kitton, "Kyd", Dickens and his Illustrators, 1899, p. 233 18 original pen-and-ink watercolour illustrations (image size averaging c.100 x 80 mm), loosely contained in contemporary plain wrappers, front wrapper annotated in a contemporary hand: "Oliver Twist 18 plates". Housed in a custom black cloth chemise and fleece-lined black cloth solander box. A fine set, remarkably crisp, original colours still bright, "Mr Bumble" illustration faintly toned, otherwise fresh. Wrappers partially split, just holding at spine, solander box rubbed and worn at edges.
Verlag: Bigelow, Brown & Co., Inc N.D., New York
Anbieter: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, USA
Hardcover. Illustrated by Browne, Hablot Knight.; Cruikshank, George and others (illustrator). Early 20th Century. The National Library Edition. Complete in twenty volumes. Publisher navy blue half morocco over patterned cloth, spines elaborately decorated in gold and with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt, title pages printed in red and black. With illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz'), George Cruikshank, and others. Volumes appear unread. The spines are not faded and the spine ends are intact. There are some minor scuffs to leather in some spots. Overall a very good+ set that presents quite nicely. ; Octavo.
Verlag: Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Half title, plates by George Cruikshank. Beautifully bound in sl. later full scarlet crushed morocco by Tout, spine gilt in compartments, gilt borders & dentelles. With the orig. dark purple cloth bound in at end. t.e.g. A v.g. handsome copy. The first one-volume edition with the plates re-worked by Cruikshank. Dickens's preface to the third edition of 1841 precedes the text.
Verlag: Richard Bentley. 1840, 1840
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Fronts & plates by George Cruikshank (dated 1837 & 1838); bound without half titles. Uncut in orig. purple-brown fine diaper cloth, spines lettered in gilt without imprint at tails; expertly recased, some uneven fading to boards, but still a nice clean copy of a scarce early edition. See Smith I, p.36, describing this in his brief resumé of the work's early printing history as variant 'e', the "1840" issue. See also the introduction to the Clarendon edition of 1966. It is described as being from standing type in vols I and II, while vol. III is completely re-set. It is not clear why the publishers reverted to using 'Boz' on the titlepage, or using the long title which Dickens had rejected. Author and publisher were famously at odds with one another at the time, and it may be that Bentley chose the previously rejected wording as an act of antagonism. Copac lists only one copy of this edition, in the BL, and Kathleen Tillotson also remarks on its scarcity: 'the only copy recorded in a sale catalogue is in Sotheby, 31 May 1900'. Several other copies have surfaced since then, but it is undoubtedly a comparative rarity.
Verlag: London: Published for the author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846, 1846
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First one-volume edition of the author's second novel, the first appearance of the definitive text, revised by Dickens from the prior three-volume edition. This copy comes from the library of William Foyle and is in an attractive Samuel Tout binding. Oliver Twist was first published serially between February 1837 and April 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany and then as a three-volume book by Richard Bentley in 1838. This single volume was substantially revised by Dickens, who had bought back his copyright from Bentley. His revisions offer a more dramatic rendering of the text, in light of his subsequent experience of the novel's public readings. The one-volume edition was issued in ten monthly parts from January to October 1846, and in the present form on completion. This edition is scarcer than the preceding three-volume edition: "many collectors prize this edition very highly and consequently it is the more valuable of the Oliver Twists" (Eckel, p. 62). From 1868 to 1879, Samuel Tout (1841-1902) bound books in Soho, London. He then worked in Whitechapel with William Coward, continuing on his own after 1880. Tout was also an early member of the staff of Karslake's Hampstead Bindery, which opened in Charing Cross in 1898. Provenance: though unmarked as such, this copy comes from the collection of William Foyle (1883-1963), the co-founder of the eponymous chain of booksellers. Foyle's grandson acquired a substantial portion of the original collection at the landmark Foyle Library sale in 2000, including the present copy. Eckel, pp. 59-63; Gimbel A39; Kremers, pp. 90-3 & 188-95. Octavo (208 x 129 mm). Late 19th-century brown half morocco by Tout, spine with raised bands forming six compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, marbled paper sides and endpapers, all edges gilt, green silk bookmarker. With 24 steel-engraved plates by George Cruikshank. With 19th-century armorial bookplate of Daniel Drew (1850-1914) of Burnley on the front pastedown. Bound without the half-title. Light rubbing, faint sunning to spine, minor foxing to endpapers and outer leaves, slight browning to content margins, faint offsetting from plates to several leaves: a very good copy.
Verlag: Richard Bentley, London, 1839
Anbieter: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, USA
Early edition of Dickens' classic â novel of crime and terrorâ (Baugh et al). Octavo, three volumes bound in full red crushed levant morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated with 24 plates by George Cruikshank. In very good condition. Ownership inscription. An attractive binding. From the jollity of The Pickwick Papers (1836-37), â Dickens turned in Oliver Twist to the novel of crime and terrorâ ¦ Some characters are drawn with humorous realism, but for the most part humor is dimmed by gloomy memories of the authorâ s own neglected childhood and sensational scenes are shrouded in an atmosphere genuinely eerie and sinisterâ ¦ That Dickens shared with his contemporaries the conviction that the novel should be an instrument of social reform is evident in Oliver Twistâ (Baugh et al., 1346-47).
Verlag: Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1838
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USA
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First edition, later issue with Dickens on title page, Church plate in vol. III. Plates by George Cruikshank. 1 vols. Crown 8vo. Bound in near contemporary half morocco and marbled boards. Fair copy, title-page and subsequent leaf with tape at edges Plates by George Cruikshank. 1 vols. Crown 8vo First edition, later issue with Dickens on title page, Church plate in vol. III.