The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci.

  • Seymour de Ricci
Date:
1921
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Credit: The book collector's guide : a practical handbook of British and American bibliography / by Seymour de Ricci. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (Apr. 1916, n. 532) in parts; $80 Hagen (May 1918, n. 1290) in parts; $950 Titus (Febr. 1919, n. 502) Sophia Hobhouse’s copy, with a drawing by Thackeray for a frontispiece. Part of the manuscript is at Trinity College, Cambridge. The Kickleburys on the Rhine. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1850 (or 1851). 8°. PL (plain or coloured). The fifth of Thackeray’s Christmas Books. In orig. pink boards $15-20. — $60 Purdy (Apr. 1917, n. 938) mor., by Matthews, with the pink leaf containing the publisher’s announcement of the work; $60 Hagen (May 1918, n. 1293) boards. Rebecca and Rowena. London, Chapman and Hall, 1850. 8°. PI. by Doyle (plain or coloured). The sixth of Thackeray’s Christmas Books. In orig. pink boards* $30-40. — £ 10.15.0 Hill (May 1912, n. 206) boards; $210 Lambert (Febr. 1914, n. 963) mor., by Riviere, with one of Doyle’s orig. drawings; $585 Lambert (Febr. 1914, n. 964) presentation copy, autographs added; $385 Coggeshall (Apr. 1916, n. 136) calf, auto¬ graph added; $205 Hagen (May 1918, n. 1294) boards, a drawing by Thackeray inserted. Harlequin and Humpty Dumpty, or Robin de Bobbin and the First Lord Mayor of Lun’on, a grand historical Pantomime by E. Fitzball Esq. First performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, December 26, 1850. London, S. G. Fairbrother [1850]. 120. 20 pi. by W. West. Thackeray is believed to have had a share in this production. $275 Lambert (Febr. 1914, n. 969) orig. wrapper ( now Van Duzer). The History of Henry Esmond. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1852. 3 vols. 120. In orig. brown cloth, with labels $20-30. — £ 43 Sotheby’s, 24 Apr. 1899, n. 769, presentation copy; $535 Lambert (Febr. 1914, n. 973) cloth, autograph added, resold $425 Behrend (Febr. 1915, n. 46) ; $120 Hagen (May 1918, n. 1295) mor., by Stikeman. The manuscript is at Trinity College, Cambridge. The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. Lon¬ don, Smith, Elder and Co., 1843. 120. In orig. blue cloth $15-25 and more. — $285 Lambert (Febr. 1914, n. 993) cloth, presentation copy, resold $350 Coggeshall (Apr. 1916, n. 543) ; £ 115 Red Cross S'ale (Apr. 1916, n. 2321) presentation copy; $90 Hagen (May 1918, n. 1296) cloth, autograph added.