185. DICKENS (CHARLES). Dickens Playbill. An ORIGINAL PLAY BILL of the Performance by the celebrated Amateur Company under the direction of Charles Dickens (the local arrangements under Dr. Sheridan Muspratt), of Lytton's "NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM," at the PHILHARMONIC HALL, LIVERPOOL, Feb. 14th, 1852, the caste including C. Dickens, Dudley Costello, Wilkie Collins (in the absence of Douglas Jerrold), Mark Lemon, F. W. Topham, Peter Cunningham, John Tenniel, Augustus Egg, Miss Fanny Young, etc.; to be followed by an Original Farce entitled "MR. NIGHTINGALE'S DIARY," the caste including Dudley Costello, C. Dickens, Aug. Egg, Mark Lemon, Wilkie Collins, etc.; A PLAYBILL of the Royal Adelphi Theatre, St. Helens, Oct. 2, 1850, for the performance of "Annihilation! or Death to the Snobs."A Play-bill of the Theatre Royal, Wigan, Monday, Apr. 16, 1855, for the performance of "The Hypocrite "-in 1 vol., with a large collection of miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, sketches by SEYMOUR, JOHN LEECH, etc., Curious Advertisements, etc., etc. Folio, contemporary half bindVERY SCARCE. 1852, etc. ing * C. Dickens organized his celebrated Amateur_company for the encouragement of Life Assurance and other Provident habits among Authors and Artists; and among a series of Autograph Letters sold in London in March, 1902, there were two which have reference to the above interesting perfor mance. In the letter referred to, Dickens writes graphically describing his fellow actors: "Jerrold and myself you have heard of. Mr. Egg is an artist of high reputation. Mr. Costello is a periodical writer. Mr. Mark Lemon is a dramatic author, and the editor of Punch,'" etc., etc. It is a most interesting and valuable souvenir of the great novelist and one which would be almost, if not quite, impossible to be met with again. The other two playbills mentioned are interesting as early provincial ones. IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS. 186. DICKENS (CHARLES). Bleak House. FIRST EDN. 8vo. With 40 illusts. by H. K. Browne. COMPLETE IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS, with all the pictorial wrappers and advertisements. A FINE COPY. Lond. 1853 * Enclosed in cloth case with morocco back and inner protecting cloth cover. IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS. 187. DICKENS (CHARLES). Little Dorrit. FIRST EDN. IN THE ORIGINAL 20 PARTS, as issued, with all the original wrappers and advertisements complete. VERY FINE COPY. Lond. 1855-57 * In cloth case with morocco back and inner protecting cloth cover. 188. DICKENS (CHARLES). Browne (Hablot K.) ("Phiz "). 22 vignette illusts. to Dickens. Royal 8vo, full green morocco, gilt top, uncut, by, RIVIERE. Lond. 1858 * ALL PROOFS ON INDIA PAPER. VERY SCARCE. IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS. 189. DICKENS (CHARLES). A Tale of Two Cities. FIRST EDN. With 16 illusts. by "Phiz." IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS, with all the wrappers and advertisements, uncut. Lond. 1859 EDN. * ONE OF THE RAREST OF ALL THE DICKENS ITEMS IN PARTS, THE ISSUE IN THIS FORM BEING VERY LIMITED. GENUINE FIRST EDITION. 190. DICKENS (CHARLES). Great Expectations. FIRST 3 vols. post 8vo, original cloth, uncut. Lond. 1861 * THE GENUINE FIRST ISSUE of the First Edition, the advertisements being dated "May, 1861." FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES DICKENS. 191. DICKENS (CHARLES). Fitzgerald (Percy). The Life of Laurence Sterne. FIRST EDN. With illusts. from drawings by the author and others. 2 vols. post 8vo, original cloth, uncut. Lond. 1864 * FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES DICKENS, with his bookplate in Vol. I and Library labels in both; and inserted an interesting note by the author referring to this copy. . . . "I (Fitzgerald) gave it to him" (Dickens). IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS. Our Mutual Friend. 192. DICKENS (CHARLES). FIRST EDN., AS ISSUED IN THE 20 SHILLING PARTS, with designs by Marcus Stone, May, 1864, to Nov., 1865, Parts 19 and 20 forming a double number. All the wrappers and advertisements complete. A FINE COPY. Lond. 1864-5 * Enclosed in cloth case with morocco back, and inner protecting cloth cover. AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPY FROM DICKENS TO HIS DEAREST FRIEND AND BIOGRAPHER, CHARLES KENT. 193. DICKENS (CHARLES). Dombey and Son. With 8 illusts. by "Phiz." FIRST ISSUE of the Charles Dickens Edition." 12mo, original red cloth, uncut. Lond. 1867 *A COPY OF SURPASSING INTEREST, BEING AN AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION COPY FROM CHARLES DICKENS TO HIS DEAREST FRIEND AND BIOGRAPHER CHARLES KENT, WITH INSCRIPTION IN THE AUTOGRAPH OF THE AUTHOR ON TITLE-PAGE: "Charles Kent From his affectionate and faithful friend 26th October, 1867". THIS COPY IS OF ESPECIAL INTEREST IN THIS COUNTRY, BECAUSE IT WAS CHARLES KENT WHO UNDERTOOK THE WHOLE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PUBLIC BANQUET GIVEN TO DICKENS AT THE FREEMASON'S HALL, LONDON, JUST PRIOR TO HIS SAILING FOR AMERICA THE 8TH OF NOVEMBER, 1867, TO DELIVER HIS FAMOUS SERIES OF READINGS, AND WHICH WAS THE NOVELIST'S FINAL APPEARANCE IN THIS COUNTRY. THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE BANQUET AND THE DEPARTURE HAVING BEEN COMPLETED, IN ALL PROBABILITY THIS IS THE IDENTICAL TOKEN OF FRIENDSHIP AND ESTEEM PRESENTED BY THE NOVELIST TO HIS FRIEND AS A MEMENTO OF THE OCCASION. DICKENS TO BAYARD TAYLOR. 194. DICKENS (CHARLES). A. L. S. 2 pp. 8vo, Gads Hill Place, Aug. 13, 1868, to BAYARD TAYLOR. "Dr. Fordyce Barker of New York is coming down to see me on Tuesday next the 18th. It will give me great pleasure if you will come too, at your own hour; our dinner hour being seven, as some of my family are staying with me, my house is unfortunately full, and I cannot offer you a bedchamber. But I can either remit you to London by eleven at night or house you quite snugly at the village hostelry a few yards from the gate, the Sir John Falstaff." UNIQUE EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED COPY. 195. DICKENS (CHARLES). Letters to Wilkie Collins. Edited by Laurence Hutton. With portraits and facsimiles. 12mo, every leaf being neatly inlaid to folio, threequarter blue levant morocco extra, gilt top, by STIKEMAN. N. Y. 1892 * UNIQUE COPY, illustrated by the insertion of ninety-three portraits, including many fine India proofs, of Dickens, Collins, Macaulay, Rogers, Wilkie, Irving, Turner, Dr. Arnold, Lord Lytton, Hans Andersen, Johnson, Hazlitt, Jerrold, Charles Mathews, Mark Lemon, John Leech, Thackeray, Charles Reade, W. J. Florence, Collins (the fine portrait of Dickens reading his Christmas Carol), Landor, Longfellow and other friends and contemporaries, with numerous choice views associated with their names and writings; also, a fine A. L. S. OF DICKENS, dated September 3d, from the office of "All the Year Round," addressed to the Rev. R. C. Swinton: "I know no such person as Mr. Maitland, concerning whom your inquiries are made, and never did know any one of that name. Therefore I fear you have been grossly imposed upon." ORIGINAL DRAWINGS TO DICKENS' CHARACTERS. 196. DICKENS (CHARLES). A SERIES OF EIGHTEEN FINE WATER-COLOR DRAWINGS, by "KYD" [Clayton Clark], illustrating some of the more important characters in the novels of Charles Dickens, all signed and with the names written beneath, neatly mounted to uniform size (6 by 4 inches) small 4to, new half morocco extra, gilt edges, by RIVIERE. [circa 1907] The drawings include: Mrs. Gamp, Mr. Pickwick, Sam and Tony Weller, Stiggins, Old Pegotty, Uriah Heep, Tim Linkin. water, Miss Snevellicci, Mr. Mantalini, Ralph Nickleby, Smike, Squeers, etc. HANDSOME SET. 197. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Complete Works of Dickens With Introductions, General Essays and Notes. by Andrew Lang. Together with the Life of Dickens by John Forster. Portraits and all the original illusts. by Phiz, Cruikshank, Seymour, etc. 36 vols. 8vo, beautifully bound in balf dark green polished morocco, gilt tooled backs, gilt tops, uncut. Lond. and N. Y., n. d. *AN EXCEEDINGLY CHOICE SET of the Gadshill Edition, printed from the edition carefully corrected by the author in 1867. This edition will always rank as one of the best ever issued, owing to its fine typography and general make up. 198. DOVES PRESS. THE ENGLISH BIBLE, containing the Old Testament and the New, translated out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of his Majesty King James the First, and now reprinted, with the text revised by a Collation of its Early and Principal Editions, and Edited by the late Rev. F. H. Scrivener, M.A., LL.D., for the Syndics of the University Press, Cambridge. 5 vols. small folio, limp vellum, uncut. BOUND AT THE DOVES BINDERY. The Doves Press: Hammersmith, 1903 *Fine copy of this beautiful example of modern typography, and generally conceded the chef d'œuvre of the issues of this excellent press. 199. DOVES PRESS.-Carlyle (Thomas). Sartor Resartus. 8vo, beautifully printed on handmade paper by Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Press, rubricated initials, AND BOUND AT THE DOVES BINDERY in full dark green crushed and polished levant, ruled lines on sides, full gilt back, gilt edges. The Doves Press: Hammersmith, 1907 * A beautiful specimen of bookmaking and bookbinding. 200. DRAMA. The Theatrical Inquisitor; or, Literary Mirror. By Cerberus. 16 vols. 8vo, original boards, uncut (some backs somewhat rubbed, though a fine copy for a work of the period, in boards). Lond. 1812-20 *THE MCKEE COPY, WITH BOOKPLATE IN EACH VOLUME. FINE SET OF THIS RARE AND INTERESTING publication, which is particularly valued for the numerous full-page finely engraved portraits, among which may be mentioned EDMUND KEAN, GEO. FREDERICK COOKE, J. P. Kemble, JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH, the elder WALLACK, MISS FOOTE, MISS O'NEILL, LYDIA KELLY, MUNDEN, ELLISTON, MAYWOOD and many others whose portraits are very difficult to obtain. But one plate is lacking-and that an unimportant one-portrait of T. P. Cooke. VERY RARE and particularly so in boards. 201. DRAMA. An unusually complete Collection of Old Acting Dramas, published by either French, Lacy, or at the National Acting Drama Office, and comprising over 260 different Plays, Farces, etc., by leading Dramatists. Many with etched fronts., showing portraits in character, etc. (numbered consecutively on backs, with a few vols. missing. In 23 vols. 12mo, half calf. Lond. and N. Y., v. d. * Each volume contains several different plays, which were issued separately, hence the break in the numbering on the backs is immaterial. SECOND SESSION. UNUSUAL EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES. 202. DYER (T. F. THISELTON). Great Men at Play. Extended from 2 vols., 8vo, to 4, by the insertion of 76 engravings, of which 12 are colored; 154 portraits, 38 being colored; 9 autograph letters by Earl Spencer, the bibliophile; Charles J. Mathews to B. Webster; Charles Young, tragedian, respecting Miss Kelly's farewell benefit; John Ruskin, to an artist, with good counsel; Charles Mathews the elder; C. Babbage, the Mathematician; Dr. Westland Marston, the dramatist; Bishop Thirlwall, and Richard Cobden; also, 6 autographs: Lord Chancellor Westbury, Bishop Wilberforce, David Livingstone, John Bright, Lord Bute and Lord Chancellor Brougham; in all 245 illusts. 4 vols. 8vo, bound by THE GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS in full red crushed morocco, raised bands, gilt lettered, gilt edges. Lond. 1889 *The autographs, alone, of Ruskin, Cobden, Livingstone, John Bright and Lord Brougham, should mark this item for particular attention. As to the text, to quote an English notice: It is a work possessing infinitely more human interest than narrations of the public lives of great men, since it illustrates the traits of character upon which the more open actions are founded." 203. EAR ARLY AMERICAN MAP. Mitchell (John). A Map of the British and French Dominions in NORTH AMERICA, with the Roads, Distances, Limits and Extent of the Settlements. Finely colored, and with emblematic illusts. of American Indians, a shore view, the products of the country, etc. The two sections, North and South (Labrador and Hudson's Bay to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico-the East and West boundaries being Newfoundland and a point a little west of the Mississippi River). Lond. 1755 Bound in one vol. folio, boards. * EXTREMELY RARE AND VALUABLE. The map was made under the auspices of the LORDS COMMISSIONERS FOR TRADE AND PLANTATIONS, and is on a MOST ELABORATE SCALE, the size being about 5 x 6% feet (folded to Atlas folio). AN IMMENSE AMOUNT OF HISTORICAL DATA (LOCALIZED) APPEARS AS TEXT ON THE FACE OF THE MAP, and this is particularly valuable for study of the history of the NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 204. EARLY ENGLISH HISTORY. Ellis ([Sir] Henry). Original Letters illustrative of English History, including numerous Royal Letters from Autographs in the British Museum, 3 vols., Lond. 1824; the same, SECOND SERIES, 4 vols., Lond. 1827; the same, THIRD (AND CONCLUDING) SERIES, 4 vols., Lond. 1816. With facsimiles of famous |