Little Dorrit Two Volume Set by Dickens, Charles - 1879

2015 Berkeley, University of California Press. Full numberline, "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1" appears on the copyright page. Not remainder marked, dj is not clipped. Dj clean with no rips, no discoleration, looks fine in Brodart protective sleeve. Boards clean & square. Pages clean, unmarked & bright. Black cloth binding firm & straight, gold lettering on spine fine.

"LITTLE PAUL" from the "Dombey and Son" of Charles Dickens. Circa 1850's (there is no date of publication stated); Redfield; New York. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Scarce volume from the 6-volume "DICKENS' LITTLE FOLKS" series which was "undertaken with a view of supplying the want of a class of books for children, of a vigorous, manly tone, combined with a plain and concise mode of narration." "With this view, the career of [Little Paul has] been detached from the large mass of matter with which [he was] originally connected, and presented, in the author's own language, to a new class of readers, to whom the little volumes will, we doubt not, be as attractive as the larger originals have so long proved to the general public."Condition:Clean covers and spine with no stains; 1" cloth tear at the top-right corner of the spine; horizontal crease across the front cover which is also visible on the opposite side of the board. Occasional foxing and staining to the pages (heaviest on end… Read More

London, 1879. First Edition, First Printing. No binding. Very good. A Very Good or better illustration of author Bret Harte published in Vanity Fair magazine for July 4, 1879, including the Vanity Fair profile of Harte, being Vanity Fair's "MEN OF THE DAY. No. 191." with evidence of the two pages having been removed from a larger volume which once likely held them. Examples of this original material are surprisingly uncommon to the market. A Very Good or better UNCOMMON piece of Bret Harte literary ephemera.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894. In contemporary fine binding, signed "Bound by Launder", half morocco over marbled boards, matching marbled end pages, back with gilt lettering, tail date and ornate decorations in gilt, top edge gilt. Very Good, light wear at spine ends and fore edges. 464 pp, with illustrations by the author. First appeared as a serialization in "Harper's Magazine", this First American Edition is the first edition in book form. . First American Edition. Half Morocco. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press. London. 1913. REPRINT of the 1912 first edition. 8vo. (6.9 x 4.6 inches). India paper edition. xvi, 1023pp. A neat five line inscription on the front blank free endpaper, otherwise a clean copy throughout. In a fine early leather binding of half dark blue morocco, bound for Hatchards of Piccadilly. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments double ruled and lettered in gilt. Blue cloth on boards. All edges gilt. Blue plain endpapers. Some offsetting to the edge of the endpapers, where the leather has touched the page, and just a hint of rubbing to the extremities, otherwise a near fine, beautifully bound, copy.

Seventeenth Edition, but the first edition of the completed work. Embellished with a Characteristic Frontispiece. John Joseph Stockdale. London. 1807. Octavo. xxiv, 152pp. Rowlandson engraved frontis. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards. Toning to title and frontis.
Provenance: Bookplate of B. Haigh Allen to fep. Signature of Bn. Haigh to title. Yorkshire financier, Benjamin Haigh Allen (1792-1829) was a personal friend of William Wilberforce and campaigner for abolition.
Barrett, Eaton Stannard (1786–1820) poet, satirist. 'All the talents' is a political satire of the Whig coalition. Published parts, the later 'editions' were augmented by further dialogues. This is the first edition of the complete work.
"The coalition government formed in February 1806, following Pitt's death. Supposedly embracing 'All the Talents', it was composed of the followers of Lord Grenville and Charles Fox, bolstered by those of Lord Sidmouth (Addington). The resignation of the Talents in March 1807 was precipitated… Read More

London: J. M. Dent & Co. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. About fine but for prev. owner name dated Dec. '92, on ffep. of each volume, minor wear to extremities, and unobtrusive stains to bottom edge of text blocks and one fore edge. No date, but prev. owner date is 1892. Top edges gilt, half leather over marbled boards. An attractive set..

London [and] New York: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co [and] Reprinted for the Booksellers Fourth Edition, Complete in One Volume. Published the same year as the first edition. London [and] New York: Whittaker, Treacher, and Co: Reprinted for the Booksellers, 1832. 8vo., 5 1/2" x 9", 325pp, illustrated with 8 plates. Bound in brown linen cloth, backstirp missing, wear at the tips and along edges, fading to the cloth, name/date on title page, foxing on endpapers, mild toning along edges. Internally very good, paper bright, binding tight, all plates present. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo.

London, E. Mathews; Boston, Copeland & Day, 1895, 8vo, pp. xi, 116; orig. iron blue paper boards, lettered dark blue at the spine. - Second (first 'trade') edition, limited to 750 copies for England and America, which was preceded by an issue of 25 copies signed by the poet. - Printed on handmade paper at the Chiswick Press under the supervision of Herbert Horne, who also provided a striking red and black title-page. - Very slight wear (chipping) at the extreme ends of spine; top edge dusty; a pale brownish stain on endpaper and prelims., not touching printed areas. Otherwise, and in general effect, a very nice copy of a scarce Nineties title, with a bookplate (C.C. Paine) to the front pastedown. - Kraus, Copeland and Day, 18; Russell Taylor: The Art Nouveau book in Britain, p. 70, illustration.

London: London: printed for and sold by Greenland & Norris, Finsbury Square, 1805. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. Two separate works in one volume. First editions, octavo. Sketch of Worcester: [2], 16pp, with full complement of 14 engraved plates, one folding. Memoirs of Charles I: [1], 22, [ii]pp, complete with engraved title-page bearing portrait of Charles I and 17 engraved portrait plates together with closing publisher's adverts. In contemporary full speckled leather (lightly worn with minor loss to extremities), gilt rolls to board margins, spine gilt, gilt lettered black leather spine label, marbled endpapers with internal hinges expertly reinforced in matching blue cloth, twentieth century ownership label to front blank, sporadic light paper browning and unobtrusive soiling, overall an attractive complete copy of these two uncommon illustrated titles. The Sketch of Worcester is listed in ESTC (T155523) since it was previously thought to have been printed around 1760; 4xUK… Read More