{"title":"Charles Dickens","description":"One of the greats of English literature. His style is florid and poetic - there is also a strong vein of humour and social satire in his work.","products":[{"product_id":"david-copperfield-by-charles-dickens-1850-first-edition-bayntun-riviere-binding","title":"DAVID COPPERFIELD BY CHARLES DICKENS 1850 FIRST EDITION, BAYNTUN RIVIERE BINDING","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DICKENS, CHARLES]. \u003cstrong\u003eThe Personal History of David Copperfield.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Bradbury \u0026amp; Evans, 1850.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover. First edition [in book form], second issue. Leather-bound. Octavo (215 x 135mm), pp. [xiv], errata, 624. Finely bound in dark-green full morocco, signed by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments and bands fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Upper board with gilt impressed oval portrait vignette of the author. Rear board with gilt impressed authors facsimile signature. Elaborate inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. 40 illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (a.k.a. \"Phiz\") including frontispiece and vignette title-page (earlier state with date). Bound without 8pp. of publisher's advertisements at the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: NEAR FINE. A superb copy, internally remarkably crisp and clean, without previous ownership markings, however there is some light foxing to prelims. The binding is tight, the hinges perfectly preserved. Gilt fresh and bright, the covers unblemished. Scarce thus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote: A NEAR FINE COPY OF ONE OF THE AUTHOR'S MOST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AND BEST LOVED WORKS. David Copperfield first appeared in nineteen monthly parts between May 1849 and November 1850. This book edition was published in late 1850. The most autobiographical of all of Dickens's novels, David Copperfield had enormous personal importance to its author. Many of the most painful episodes of his life were only thinly veiled in the book, leading Dickens to speak of the difficulty of 'dismissing some portion of himself into the shadowy world.' In his preface to the 1869 edition, Dickens writes: 'Of all my books, I like this the best. It will be easily believed that I am a fond parent to every child of my fancy, and that no one can ever love that family as dearly as I love them. But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is David Copperfield.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis first book edition of \"David Copperfield\" has 9 of the 10 points of reference contained in the first issue: 1. No half-title. 2. Six-line errata leaf on page xv. 3. Chapter xxvii listed in table contents at pp. 283, instead of pp. 282. 4. \"recal\" line 1 on pp. 16 and on pp. 225 line 22. 5.\"chapter;ut\" on pp. 19, 12 lines from bottom. 6. \"coroboration\" is 6 lines up on pp.387. 7. No quotes at end of pp 13. 8. Page viii, preface, has the final \"i\" misaligned. 9. Engraved title page is dated 1850. However, \"screamed\" has been corrected to \"screwed\" on pp. 132, line 20. This work is splendidly illustrated throughout with engravings by Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882), the celebrated English artist well-known by his pen name, Phiz, who illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth. It contains the second of Browne's so-called \"dark plates\" (\"The River,\" at page 482 - the first dark-plate appeared in Dombey and Son), created by a machine process that tints the etched plate so as to heighten the contrast between black and white, anticipating some of the techniques of white-line engraving (Johannsen, Phiz, 309). 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Spine with five raised bands, the compartments and bands fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Upper board with gilt impressed oval portrait vignette of the author. Rear board with gilt impressed authors facsimile signature. Elaborate inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. 40 illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (a.k.a. \"Phiz\") including frontispiece and vignette title-page. Bound without publisher's advertisements at the end. Condition: NEAR FINE. A superb copy, internally remarkably crisp and clean, however there is some light offsetting, notably without previous ownership markings. The binding is tight and secure, the hinges perfectly preserved. Gilt fresh and bright, the covers unblemished. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: Although many of Dickens most famous works are crawling with crime, it is just this title that can be firmly placed in the murder mystery category. 'Bleak House' is essentially a classic whodunit, professionally solved, which became only the second entry (after Poe's 'Tales') in the Haycraft-Queen cornerstone list of crime fiction. Dickens returned to crime fiction for his highly-rated final story, the 'Mystery of Edwin Drood' but this was unfinished and the case unsolved. Within 'Bleak House' the author experiments with dual narrators and the story ranges from the dark and filthy Victorian slums to the landed aristocracy; Inspector Bucket is one of the earliest detectives to appear in fiction and was probably based on C.K. Field of the recently formed Scotland Yard. An essential mystery novel, originally published in 20 numbers in 19 parts (the last two numbers published in one part) between March 1852 and September 1853, published in one volume 12th Sept. 1853. All Walter Smith first edition issue points present including: elgble on page 19 line 6; chair for hair on page 209, line 23; counsinship on page 275 line 22; plus 5 line errata on page xvi. References: Sadleir (682); Smith (82\/83); Podeschi; Gimbel Catalogue Grolier Club Exhibition Catalogue (1913); Collins; Dickens and Crime (1962); Queen's Quorum; Book Collector No.273, p34; Graham Greene \u0026amp; Dorothy Glover; Victorian Detective Fiction (1966).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Charles Dickens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37676304531627,"sku":"CHARDICBLEHOUS1850","price":2000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/s-l1600_4a94e712-2bd3-4c3d-9d43-4d7cd5637a52.jpg?v=1606780843"},{"product_id":"our-mutual-friend-by-charles-dickens-1865-first-edition-fine-bayntun-riviere","title":"OUR MUTUAL FRIEND BY CHARLES DICKENS 1865 FIRST EDITION, FINE BAYNTUN RIVIERE","description":"\u003cp\u003e[DICKENS, CHARLES]. \u003cstrong\u003eOur Mutual Friend.\u003c\/strong\u003e London: Chapman \u0026amp; Hall, 1865.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHardcover. First edition in book form. Two volumes bound in one. Leather-bound. Octavo (215 x 135mm), pp. [xii], 320; [viii], 309. Finely bound in dark-green full morocco, signed by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments and bands fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Upper board with gilt impressed oval portrait vignette of the author. Rear board with gilt impressed authors facsimile signature. Elaborate inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Engraved frontispieces. 40 illustrations by Marcus Stone. Bound without publisher's advertisements. Condition: FINE. A superb copy; internally pristine, crisp pages, and without previous ownership markings; binding tight, the hinges perfectly preserved, gilt fresh and bright, couple of tiny marks to covers. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: This was the second to last book that Dickens would write, and the last one that he would actually finish. The years shortly before the publication of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND were fraught with domestic sorrow that would lead to his eventual decline. He separated from his wife Catherine in 1858 after his admiration for the young actress Ellen Ternan strained his already deteriorating marriage. He further had to defend himself against scandal and protest his innocence when wagging tongues of gossip linked his name to his sister-in-law Georgina s who had served as his housekeeper for many years. He threw his restless energy into increased productivity and public readings of his work, both of which were physically and emotionally exhausting. He suffered from recurrent illnesses during the creation of OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, but nonetheless managed to maintain the level of genius in his prose that had pervaded his previous works. He died unexpectedly only five years later, while he was writing THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. He had, with this novel, \".for the first time given serious consideraiton to the theme of unrequited love. In earlier books it may have been secret or ill-timed, but there was always and equilibrium in which both parties seem to accept that they loved or can be loved; and that, when eventually they declare their love, it is not rejected.\" But \"there is torture in love, and despair, and madness. There is some necessary connection between courtship and death.so tht.it is possible to trace the strange curve of Dickens temperment exploring extremity in art if not necessarily life.\" (Ackroyd, 955) Like most of Dickens work, OUR MUTUAL FRIEND was published in monthly serial parts, the first in May of 1864 and the last in November of 1865. 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Finely bound in dark-green full morocco, signed by Bayntun-Riviere, Bath, England. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments and bands fully gilt ruled, tooled and lettered. Boards and edges gilt ruled. Upper board with gilt impressed oval portrait vignette of the author. Rear board with gilt impressed authors facsimile signature. Elaborate inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and extra title-page, illustrated throughout by phiz. First state of text with \"100£\" on the engraved title-page.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: FINE. A superb copy; internally near pristine, with crisp pages, without previous ownership markings; binding tight, the hinges perfectly preserved, gilt fresh and bright, covers unblemished. Scarce thus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: First edition. Dickens's biographer places Martin Chuzzlewit as marking \"a great change in Dickens's conception of moral characteristics. For the first time Dickens begins to explore the contradictions and difficulties of the contemporary human world; these are no longer figures defined by a single characteristic or animated by the wilful principle of a 'humour', but ones who are seen to change with the changing world, to live and grow\" (Ackroyd, Dickens, p. 392). Dickens wrote to a contemporary that \"I think Chuzzlewit is a hundred points immeasurably the best of my stories\" (cited in Berard, Dickens and Landscape Discourse, p. 3). 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Spines with five raised bands the compartments gilt ruled with centre tools and lettering. Green cloth boards. Top edges gilt. Fore edges and bottom edges unevenly cut. Hand-marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-titles present. Illustrated throughout by numerous artists including Cruikshank; Phiz; Cattermole; Landseer; Maclise, Tenniel, et al, each title with a frontispiece. Printed by Horace Hart, University Press, Oxford. Volumes are: A Childs History Of England with 4 illustrations by Townsend and others, bound with Christmas Books with 65 illustrations by Landseer, Maclise, Tenniel etc.; Barnaby Rudge with 76 illustrations by Cattermole and Phiz; Bleak House with 40 illustrations by Phiz; Christmas Stories with 8 illustrations by Goodman; David Copperfield with 40 illustrations by Phiz; Dombey \u0026amp; Son with 40 illustrations by Phiz; Hard Times with 7 illustrations by Walker and Greiffenhagen, bound with A Tale Of Two Cities with 16 illustrations by Phiz; Little Dorrit with 40 illustrations by Phiz; Martin Chuzzlewit with 40 illustrations by Phiz; Nicholas Nickleby with 39 illustrations by Phiz; Old Curiosity Shop with 75 illustrations by Cattermole and Phiz; Oliver Twist with 24 illustrations by Cruikshank, bound with American Notes\/Pictures From Italy with 3 illustrations by Greiffenhagen; Our Mutual Friend with 40 illustrations by Marcus Stone; Pickwick Papers with 43 illustrations by Seymour and Phiz; Reprinted Pieces with 3 illustrations by Walker, bound with Great Expectations with 10 illustrations by Charles Green; Sketches By Boz with 43 illustrations by Cruikshank and Phiz; The Uncommercial Traveller with 4 illustrations by Harry Furniss, bound with Mystery Of Edwin Drood with 19 illustrations by Cattermole\/Phiz.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: FINE. 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Five raised spine bands. Compartments and bands gilt ruled, tooled and lettered, plus twin morocco title plates. Gilt ruled twin frames to boards. Turn-ins and board edges gilt ruled and tooled. All page edges gilt. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. Decorative title-page printed in red and black with holly and berry motif. Preface, Character List, and List of Illustrations. 12 full-page colour plates with captioned tissue guards, including frontispiece. 18 black and white illustrations in the text, some as head- and tale-pieces and silhouetted. Printed by The Windmill Press Limited. Condition: FINE. 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Exquisite polished tree calf binding (unsigned but probably by Bayntun-Riviere), five raised bands, compartments ruled, lettered and fully decorated in gilt, boards with gilt ruled borders and corner pieces, board edges with gilt ruled lines, inner gilt dentelles, all page edges gilt, psychedelic dyed pastedowns and endpapers, illustrated throughout with thirty-eight plates by Phiz plus frontispiece and engraved title-page. Condition: FINE. Binding secure, covers and contents clean, neat inscription to fep. Exquisite. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: A beautifully bound edition of this Dickens classic; 'Martin Chuzzlewit' is considered the last of his picaresque novels, and was written and serialized in 1843-1844; initial sales of the monthly parts were disappointing, compared to the authors' previous works, so Dickens changed the plot to send the title character to America. This allowed him to portray America, which he had recently visited, as a near wilderness, whose pockets of civilization were filled with deceptive and self-promoting hucksters. The main theme of the novel is selfishness, which is portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. 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Octavo (185 x 120 mm.), pp. [6], 266. Pagination continuous. English text in double column. Contemporary reddish-brown half calf, titles and banding in gilt to smooth spine, marbled book block edges, marbled paper-covered boards, plain endpapers. Inserted wood-engraved frontispiece after John Leech [\"Mr. Fezziwig's Ball\", the original design for the frontispiece of the first edition of A Christmas Carol]. Section-title to each story. The volume comprises: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man. Printed by Bradbury and Evans. Condition: Binding tight and secure with the hinges intact. Extremities and covers a little rubbed. Endleaves a little dusty and spotted, contents otherwise rather clean. Some old inking recto frontispiece. Couple of leaves with small closed tears seemingly repaired. Bound without publisher's ads. Scarce. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNote: The first collected edition of the five Christmas Books, with a brief new preface by Dickens in which he describes his motivation for writing the Christmas books: 'My purpose was, in a whimsical kind of masque which the good humour of the season justified, to awaken some loving and forbearing thoughts, never out of season in a Christian land'. Issued as part of Chapman and Hall's Cheap Edition of the Works of Mr. Charles Dickens (pirated collected editions had previously appeared in the United States). Each part originally published in separate book editions from 1843 through 1848. [Gimbel D5 notes. 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Bound in publisher's original red-orange cloth with blind stamped covers and front cover and spine stamped in gilt with wreath decoration and titles, all page edges gilt. Chalk-glazed yellow endpapers, title-page printed in red and blue, half-title printed in blue, illustrated with 4 hand colored engraved plates by John Leech and 4 black and white illustrations by W. .J. Linton, \"Stave One\" as the first chapter heading, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Condition: Binding tight and secure. Boards darkened and lightly soiled, corners rubbed and rounded, slightly frayed at spine base and minor loss at spine head. Previous owner's name on front and rear endpapers, which are patchily stained. Small portion of top outer corner missing from title-page. Some browning, foxing and spot marks throughout. A very scarce, early edition of Dickens' most famous work. 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Marbled endpapers. 40 plates by H.K. Browne, including a frontispiece and engraved title page. Title page, dedication, preface, contents, list of plates, errata leaf followed by the text itself. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the joints and hinges perfectly intact. Covers beautifully preserved. Contents largely clean with varying degrees of foxing mostly to the plates. Title-page has a small inked previous owner name and doodle. An excellent and handsome copy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: First edition, bound from the original parts as issued from May 1849 to November 1850. In the preface to a later edition (1867), Dickens would call the novel his \"favourite child\", a sentiment shared by many readers: \"with many lovers of the author's works 'David Copperfield' ranks as the finest of his writings\" (Eckel, p. 77). It has been adapted into films multiple times. 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Bound in publisher's deluxe gilt pictorial vellum, pictorial title, 12 coloured plates (mounted and with captioned guards) and b\/w text illustrations (some full-page); top edge gilt, other edges rough-trimmed; pictorial endpapers. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the joints and hinges intact. Covers well-preserved with some light discolouration, lacking the ties. Interior very well-preserved, partly unopened. A beautiful copy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes: Signed limited edition of Rackham's illustrated edition of Dickens' classic Christmas tale. One of 500 numbered copies for sale in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies signed by illustrator Arthur Rackham. In very good condition. A Christmas Carol \"may readily be called the Bible of Christmas. It was issued about ten days before Christmas, 1843, and 6000 copies were sold on the first day\"(Eckel, 110). \"It was a work written at the height of Dickens' great powers, which would add to his considerable fame, bring a new work to the English language, increase the festivities at Christmastime, and contain his most eloquent protest at the condition of the poor\" (John Mortimer). 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This is the first edition in book form, first issue, with all the first issue points present: without the page number entry for the frontispiece and vignette (list pf plates); no quotation marks around \"Party\" (fourth item down in the list of plates); p248 has \"Delight\" instead of \"Joy\"; p26, line 11 - has \"fidgetty\"; p40, lines 16 and 17 have \"shewed\" and \"shewn\" for \"showed\" and \"shown\"; p324 - last word on the page spelt as \"Capatin\" not \"Captain\"; on vignette titlepage, Cuttle has a hook on his left hand.\u003c\/em\u003e","brand":"Charles Dickens","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42526762139819,"sku":"DICKENS1848","price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_6229-Copy.jpg?v=1676450389"},{"product_id":"hard-times-by-charles-dickens-1854-first-edition-fine-leather-binding","title":"HARD TIMES BY CHARLES DICKENS 1854 FIRST EDITION FINE LEATHER BINDING","description":"[DICKENS, CHARLES]. \u003cstrong\u003eHard Times. 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The publication was issued in three forms, in weekly parts, monthly parts, and the present book form. 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