Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
April 1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/560
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Property of a Wobleman. A COLLECTION OF THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES DICKENS. SIZES MIXED. The following Collection of the Works of Charles Dickens and a few of Dickens interest, mostly FIRST EDITIONS, 67 vol. in all (lots 76-124), will be offered in One Lot, but of the reserve price be not reached, each Lot will immediately be sold separately as catalogued. All are in fine state, unless otherwise described, and uniformly bound or cased (the lots enclosed in cases are so described) in full red morocco, panelled gilt backs, inside dentelles, g. t. (except 3 in blue morocco, one in green morocco, 3 in calf and 2 in original cloth). Sold not subject to return, tf sold vn one lot. 76 SUNDAY UNDER THREE Heaps. By Timothy Sparks, FIRST EDITION, vignetie titles and 3 plates but one is a duplicate, lacks plate “As it might be,’ original covers enclosed in a morocco drop case, 12mo Chapman and Hall, 1836 77 The Village Coquettes: a Comic Opera, FIRST EDITION 8vo. Richard Bentley, 1836 78 SKETCHES BY “ Boz,’ both Series, FIRST EDITION, 3 vol. plates by G. Cruikshank, lacks advertisements at end of vol. 3, blue morocco, inside panels by Tout 8vo. John Macrone, 1836-7 79 The Strange Gentleman, the re-issue with A. L. s. (initials only) (2 pp.), dated Jan. 12th 1859 inserted, original wrappers enclosed in a red morocco drop case 12mo. Chapman and Hall, 1837 80 Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION, 43 illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz |H. K. Browne\, and including the 2 plates by Rk. W. Buss 8vo. Chapman and Hall, 1837 81 [Onwhyn (T.)] Thirty-two illustrations (including title) to Pickwick, polished calf gilt, 8vo J. Newman, n. d. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by “ Boz,” FIRST EDT- TION, 2 vol. dllustrations by George Cruikshank and a portrait of Grimaldi, the plate of “‘ The last Song” is before the theatrical figures were engraved round the etching, A. L. s. (initials only), 1 page, and envelope from the Author, addressed to Mark Lemon and dated 26th April 0,8) bo
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