The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

by Dickens, Charles

Description: Near Fine. First edition in book form, first issue following all points in Smith. This copy with the vignette on title-page with amount on sign post transposed to read "100£" and seven studs in the trunk. According to Smith "An earlier 13-line errata leaf exists with the same data that is found on the 14-line leaf; the setting was changed to 14-lines for a better balance." Octavo (8 11/16 x 5 7/16 inches; 220 x 139 mm). xiv, [errata with 14 lines, verso blank], 624 pp. Forty etched plates ... Read More

Dombey and Son (Extra-Illustrated)

by Dickens, Charles

Description: Near Fine. Finely bound by Morrell in three-quarter green morocco, all edges gilt, spines with intricate details and raised bands, marbled end papers. An excellent copy overall, with four additional portrait plates bound in, depicting characters from the novel. Dombey and Son tackles a number of key themes that appear throughout Dickens' authorial career—concerns about family duty, class position, child welfare, and the dangers of arranged marriages in particular. As the titular Dombey builds ... Read More

Live and Let Live; Or Domestic Service Illustrated

by [Sedgwick, Catharine Maria]

Description: Near Fine. BAL second state, without the period following the word Illustrated on the title page. Original green publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine. Some rubbing to extremities and boards. In all square and sound. Small stains to front endpapers. Early ownership signature to header of title. With less foxing than typical. Collating viii, 9-216, 16: complete, retaining publisher's catalogue to rear. With one appearance at auction in the last 45 years and no other copies on the market, ... Read More

Dombey and Son

by Dickens, Charles

Description: Fine. Very early issue, with all but 3 of Smith's 'internal flaws. ' Finely bound by Bayntun in full red morocco with a portrait of Dickens on the front cover and his signatures on the rear in gilt. Gilt titles and decorative spine compartments on the spine, all edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Complete, with the half title and vignette title, the eight-line errata, and 40 engraved plates (including the first example of a "dark plate" facing page 547). A handsome copy in a lovely binding. ... Read More

Dombey and Son

by Dickens, Charles

Description: Fine. Very early issue, with all but 5 of Smith's 'internal flaws. ' Finely bound full red morocco with a portrait of Dickens on the front cover and his signatures on the rear in gilt (binding unsigned, but seems to be Bayntun). Gilt titles and decorative spine compartments on the spine, all edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Bound without half title else complete, with vignette title, eight-line errata, and all 40 engraved plates (including the first example of a "dark plate" facing page 547). A ... Read More

Dombey and Son (in Parts)

by Dickens, Charles

Description: Very Good. First edition, mixed issue. Twenty parts in nineteen. Publisher's blue paper wrappers. 624 pp., complete with all the plates. Front wrapper of first part seemingly doctored from wrapper of later part. Most spines inconspicuously replaced. Some small paper repairs to edges of wrappers, some chipping to edges, and a few ink ownership signatures. Three advertisement leaves with tears affecting text. Foxing to some of the plates. Otherwise, very clean throughout. A Very Good set of the ... Read More

Dombey and Son

by Dickens, Charles

Description: First issue with the 'eight-line errata' (following all but a very few of the points in Smith), in book form of Dickens' seventh novel, bound from the original monthly parts, with stab-holes present in the inner margins of gatherings. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in; 222 x 138 mm). xvi, [1, errata], [1, blank], 624 pp. Engraved frontispiece, titlepage, and thirty-eight plates after Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz") including the 'dark' plate "On the Dark Road", facing p. 547. Some of the plates with light ... Read More

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

by Dickens, Charles

Description: First edition in book form, first issue following all points in Smith including vignette on title-page with amount on sign post transposed to read "100£" and seven studs in the trunk. Plates facing pp. 387 and 386 transposed as per Michael Sadleir's copy at UCLA, and all of the other thirty-four first issue points. According to Smith "An earlier 13-line errata leaf exists with the same data that is found on the 14-line leaf; the setting was changed to 14-lines for a better balance." Octavo (8 ... Read More

A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World…

by Vancouver, George

Description: Three quarto volumes (11 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches; 299 x 239 mm) plus folio atlas volume (22 x 16 3/4 inches; 560 x 430 mm), collating: [8], xxix, [1, blank], [2, ads], [4, contents], [2, list of plates], 432; [10], 504; [10], 505, [3, errata] pp. Eighteen engraved plates, one of which is a map in the text. Ten folding maps and six plates of profiles in the atlas volume. Complete with half-titles and errata. Text volumes bound in contemporary brown polished calf with double gilt borders. Spines ... Read More