Search Results: Prints & Engravings Pertaining to Charles Dickens from Great Expectations Rare Books

Philadelphia: R.G. Kennedy & Co. , 1900. Cloth Spine Over Boards. First Edition. A complete set of all 75 plates, housed in the original portfolio cover with ties intact. Front cover has printed paper label and silhouette of scrooge stamped in black. Plates are divided between 10 envelopes, which have long since disintegrated, leaving only the cover of each section with printed part label. Plates in very good to fine condition. Portfolio shows usual wear and is split at top of backstrip, else very good. Connoisseur Edition, number 480/1000 sets. Podeschi H1067. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Sydney: Thomas H. Fielding, 1883. Small folio, (12 1/2" x 9 5/8"), bound in half red leather over marbled paper covered boards, Spine has five raised bands and is heavily decorated in gold. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Two titles, one engraved and illustrated, one letterpress. Contains all 20 etchings by Coveny on heavy stock, images appearing on rectos, with corresponding letterpress on verso of opposing page. Plate seven is in two states, one being printed on India paper and bound in before the actual plate, as issued. Coveny was born in 1846 and sent to England to be educated. Returning to Australia to practice law he soon abandoned the profession and took up teaching, before embarking on a career in art in 1878, the year of his father's death. "Twenty Scenes..." is undoubtedly his most famous work and he garnered mixed reviews upon its publication: "A.E. Greenwood and H.W.H. Stephen in Catalogue (Descriptive and Critical) of the Art Gallery with Sydney… Read More