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London: Richard Bentley, 1838. FIRST EDITION, Second State (with frame around final plate, "The Last Song"). 204 x 125 mm. (8 x 4 7/8"). With half titles and with 36 pp. of ads at the end of Vol. II. Two volumes.. HANDSOME FOREST GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO, GILT, BY RIVIERE & SON (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with French fillet borders, raised bands, spines gilt in delicately tooled compartments with scrolling centerpiece within a lozenge of small tools, volute cornerpieces, gilt titling, turn-ins densely gilt with floral rolls and plain and decorative rules, purple endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original purple cloth binding bound in. With 13 plates by George Cruikshank. Eckel, pp. 140-42; Kitton, pp. 177-83; Gimbel Collection B-64. ◆Spines evenly sunned to tan (as usual with green morocco), faint offsetting from final plate, otherwise A VERY FINE COPY, with only the most trivial imperfections internally, and in a sparkling binding. This is an extraordinarily attractive… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. FIRST EDITION in book form. 215 x 140 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2). vii, [1] (blank), 190 pp. Without the leaf of publisher's ads. VERY ATTRACTIVE SCARLET CRUSHED MOROCCO BY CEDRIC CHIVERS (stamp-signed on rear turn-in) ca. 1911, covers framed by one blind and two gilt fillets, upper cover with INLAID PAINTED VELLUCENT ESCUTCHEON with the arms of the city of Rochester within a "tiled" gilt frame, the inlay enclosed by Art Nouveau floral design incorporating a heart motif, an onlaid citron morocco heart at the foot of the design, three raised bands dividing the spine into two small compartments, slightly larger compartment with gilt titling, and an elongated compartment with inlaid vellucent and gilt escutcheon displaying the arms of the county of Kent, within similar Art Nouveau tooling featuring an onlaid citron heart, turn-ins ruled in gilt, with dot cornerpieces, leather hinges, red watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait, engraved vignette title, and… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. 257 x 171 mm. (10 1/8 x 7 3/4"). Three volumes.. VERY PRETTY CORAL RED MOROCCO, EXUBERANTLY GILT, LIKELY BY ALVAH COOK, covers tooled in a 17th century style with repeating compartments formed by drawer-handle tools, filled with flowers and stippling, raised bands, spines delicately tooled with central fleuron, leafy cornerpieces, gilt lettering, turn-ins with floral gilt roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With frontisipiece in each volume and wood engravings throughout by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne. Eckel, pp. 67-70; Podeschi A51. ◆One leaf with upper corner restored (perhaps before printing), some margins faintly browned (because of paper quality), here and there a fox spot, other trivial internal imperfections, spines just slightly and evenly sunned, but AN ESPECIALLY PLEASING SET, internally with virtually no signs of use, and the lovely bindings unworn. This is a common work on the market, but it is never seen… Read More

London: Chapman and Hall (first three); Bradbury & Evans (last two), 1843; 1845 [but 1844]; 1846 [but 1845]; 1846; 1848. FIRST EDITIONS. "Carol" in FIRST STATE (bound-in original front cover with closest interval between blind-stamped left border and left extremity of gilt wreath being 15 mm., "D" in Dickens on front cover in perfect condition); "Chimes," and "Cricket" in Second State; "Battle" with Fourth Issue of the engraved title, as usual ("Haunted" with no issue points). 167 x 102 mm. (6 5/8 x 4 1/8"). Five separately published works in five volumes.. SUPERB OLIVE GREEN CRUSHED MOROCCO COSWAY BINDINGS BY RIVIERE & SON FROM DESIGNS BY J. H. STONEHOUSE (stamp-signed on front turn-ins), upper covers all with two inlaid red morocco banners, that at head with title in gilt, that at foot lettered "Lord keep my Memory Green," and each binding FEATURING AT CENTER AN OVAL MINIATURE PORTRAIT BY MISS C. B. CURRIE (signed in gilt on rear turn-ins), the five showing Dickens at different ages, painted on… Read More