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"With every friendly wish that can encourage and cheer him in his onward path": Autograph note by Charles Dickens
DICKENS, Charles.
Charles Dickens Autograph Note.
1841.
Rare autograph note by great Victorian novelist Charles Dickens. One page, dated ninth June, 1841 and signed in the third person to John Critchley Prince. The note reads in full, "From Mr. Charles Dickens in payment of his subscription to Mr. Prince's Poems. With every friendly wish that can encourage and cheer him in his onward path. 1 Devonshire Terrace York Gate Regents Park Ninth June 1841." The recipient, John Critchley Prince (1808-66), was a Lancashire-born poet and weaver, known as the "Bard of Hyde," the "poet of the people," and the "factory bard." In 1840, he published his first book of poetry, Hours with the Muses, to which Dickens subscribed. Dickens and Prince became correspondents, although little of their letters have survived, with Dickens often praising the amateur poet, encouraging his continued writing, and offering him advice on publishing his work. Prince dedicated his Poetic Rosary (1851) to Dickens, "as a sincere testimony of the high esteem in which his humanizing writings, with their wide and generous sympathies, are held by his obedient servant, the author." In very good condition. Framed with one issue of Dickens's All the Year Round (December 5, 1874; No. 314, New Series) to the left and an engraved portrait of Dickens to the right. The note m...
Price: $3,000.00 Item Number: 149428
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COMPLETE SET OF DICKENS' CHRISTMAS BOOKS; Finely Bound by Riviere & Son
DICKENS, Charles.
The Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol; The Chimes; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Battle of Life; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1886.
Finely bound example of Dickens' Christmas books, reprinted from the stereotype plates of the original. Octodecimo, five volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards by Riviere & Son with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece to each volume, additional illustrated title page to each volume with the exception of A Christmas Carol, engraved illustrations by John Leech, D. Maclise, R. Doyle, and C. Stanfield. In very good condition with rubbing to the exterior hinges and extremities, abrasions and darkening to the spines, some splitting to the exterior hinge of The Cricket on the Hearth. A charming collection.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 145260
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"Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage": First EDITION in book form OF DICKENS’ The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
DICKENS, Charles.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837.
First edition in book form of Dickens' first novel and one of his greatest works. Octavo, bound in full polished calf bound by Bayntun with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Forty-three engraved plates by Seymour and Phiz, and the two Buss plates which Dickens requested to be removed in subsequent printings on pages 69 and 74, frontispiece and title vignette. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom marbled slipcase. A very sharp example.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 148216
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First edition of Charles Dickens' the Mudfog Papers
DICKENS, Charles.
The Mudfog Papers, Etc.
London: Richard Bentley And Son, 1880.
First edition of Charles Dickens' anthology about a parody of a fictional society. Octodecimo, original publisher's cloth with gilt titles to the spine, detailing stamped in black and gilt to the spine, front, and rear panel. In very good condition, bookplate.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 147623
