Sales catalogue 559: Maggs Bros

Date:
1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/104
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 559: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dickens (Charles)—continued. WITH ENGRAVER’S PROOF OF THE VIGNETTE. ' 245 Sergeant Bell, and his Raree-Show, Embellished with woodcuts by Cruikshank, Thonipson, Williams, ele, FIRST EDITION. 12mo, full crimson morocco extra, g.eé. London, Thomas Tegg, 1839. £10 10s UNIQUE COPY, having inserted an India proof impression of the vignette, upon which George Cruikshank has written instructions to the wood engraver, as follows :— ‘‘ My Dr Sir, The only thing I can suggest is to carry a little more light along the road towards the houses. Yours truly Geo. Cruikshank.’’ and added the necessary shading to the cut. Charles Dickens is supposed to have been connected with the literary part of the book. 246 Sketches by ‘*‘ Boz,’’ illustrative of Every-Day Life, and Every-Day People. With 16 etchings by George Crutkshank. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols., post 8vo, orvzgznal cloth, uncut. London, 1836. £78 Recased, but with the original end leaves. PRESENTATION COPY. 247 Sketches by Boz. Lllustrated by George Cruikshank. FIRST 8vo EDITION. Full new morocco gilt, g.e., by Riviere. London, Chapman and Hall, 1839. £450 PRESENTATION COPY from Charles Dickens with inscription in his Auto- graph on the title :— ‘* William Upcott, Esquire, From Charles Dickens. Twenty Third November 1841.”’ 248 Sketches of Young Ladies; in which these interesting Members of the Animal Kingdom are classified, according to their several instincts, habits, and general characteristics. By ‘‘ Quiz.’’ With © illustrations by ‘‘ Phiz.”’ FIRST EDITION. 12mo, ovzginal pictorial boards, spine neatly re- paired. London, Chapman and Hall, 1837. £10 10s This forms a companion volume to Dickens’ Sketches of Young Gentlemen and Young Couples. The Author of the present work, it is thought, is one of the Mayhew Brothers. Dickens wrote his Sketches of Young Gentlemen as a protest against this attack on the fair sex.
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