Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November-December 1931
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/973
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    89 90 91 92 93 94 96 Dickens (C.) A Child’s History of England, First Epirion, 3 vol. frontispiece, has the word “whom” in the dedication intact, original cloth sm. 8vo. 1852-4 Dickens (C.) Lirrie Dorrit, FIRST EDITION in the original 19/20 parts, with all the wrappers and advertisements, plates by H. K. Browne, name or initials of an original subscriber on front wrapper of 10 parts, has the slip inserted at p.481 regarding the wrong name, nine of the parts are entirely unopened, two leaves in part IV have been carelessly cut, a few plates very slightly foxed, otherwise a very fie copy with brilhant im- pressions of the plates, enclosed in a cloth case, lettered 8vo. Bradbury and Evans, 1855-7 ** Included is a second issue of part XV, showing the correction “ Blandois ” for Rigaud in Chapter 17, pp. 469-74; duplicate plates in part III; and nine copies of the Morisonian Monu- ment leaflet each one of a different coloured paper. Dickens (C.) Little Dorrit, First EpITION, plates by H. kK. Browne, some foxed, has the name Rigaud instead of Blandois on pp. 469-74, original cloth 8vo. Bradbury and Evans, 1857 Dickens (C.) Pictures from Italy, First EDITION, vignette illus- trations on wood by 8. Palmer, 1856; The Mudfog Papers, ete. 1880, both in original cloth sm. 8vo. (2) Dickens (C.) A TALE oF Two CITIES, FIRST EDITION in the original 7/8 parts, with all the wrappers and advertisements, plates by H. K. Browne, the last part has the error in the pagination, p. 118 for 213, enclosed in a cloth case, lettered | 8vo. Chapman and Hall, 1859 ** Loosely inserted are 14 unlettered india proofs in undivided state; also loosely inserted in part- 7/8 duplicates of the frontispiece and engraved title, in fine state. Dickens (C.) A Curious Dance round a curious Tree, FIRST ISSUE, 19 pp. original wrappers [1860]; Second Issue of the same, 19 pp. with the concluding paragraph in heavy type, lacks wrappers [1860], both enclosed in a green morocco case, lettered sm. 8vo. (2) Dickens (C.) A Curious Dance round a curious Tree, second issue, 19 pp. with the concluding paragraph in heavy type, original pink wrappers, in a cloth folder sm. 8vo. 1860 Dickens (C.) GREAT EXPECTATIONS, FIRST EDITION, 3 vol. with 32 pp. of advertisements in last volume dated May, 1861, original cloth, slight label mark on the back of vol. II, each volume has a slip case, the whole enclosed in half morocco case, apart from the slight defect A FINE COPY 8vo. Chapman and Hall, 1861 *. With the correct title-pages and following “ points’ which are
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