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(Dickens, Charles)A group of works from the author's library
Lot comprises: Barrow, John. A Family Tour Through South Holland; Up the Rhine; and Across the Netherlands, to Ostend. Second Edition. London: john Murray 1836. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, folding map, 10 engraved plates including frontis; a few stray spots. Contemporary red pebble-grain morocco and marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt, edges marbled, marbled endpapers; rubbing to extremities. Housed in brown morocco pull-off case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with Dickens's lion monogram, and green watered silk folding chemise; rubbed with some loss. PROVENANCE: Charles Dickens (his bookplates to front pastedown)
[With:] Lander, Richard and John Lander. Journal of an Expedition to Explore the Course and Termination of the Niger. London: John Murray 1833. 3 volumes, 12mo. Half-titles and titles to each volume, numerous engraved plates, folding map; some foxing and offsetting. Contemporary red pebble-grain morocco and marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt, edges marbled, marbled endpapers; rubbing to extremities. Housed in half green morocco and green cloth pull-off case by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with Dickens's lion monogram; rubbed with some loss. PROVENANCE: Charles Dickens (bookplates to front pastedowns) — Swayer Catalogue of a Private Library, Recently Purchase in Fine Condition, 1925 — C. Samuelson (ink stamps to front free endpapers)
{And:] Lieber, Francis and E. Wigglesworth (eds.). Encyclopaedia Americana … Including a Copious Collection of Articles in American Biography… Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842. Volumes III, VII, and XIII only. Title-page to each volume, text printed in two columns; some stray spotting and offsetting. Contemporary full brown calf, morocco lettering-pieces to spines, edges marbled; rubbed with some loss. PROVENANCE: Charles Dickens (bookplates to front pastedowns). These volumes are from a set of the work presented to Dickens during his American visit in 1842. They were presumably the gift of Prof. Wigglesworth, on the occasion of Dickens's visit to Boston.
[And:] Sue, Eugene. The Wandering Jew. London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. Volume III (of III) only, 8vo. Some scattered spotting. Publisher's green cloth, covers blindstamped, spine gilt-lettered; rubbed with loss, text block shaken. PROVENANCE: Charles Dickens (bookplates to front pastedown)
Four works from the library of Charles Dickens—one of the most prolific authors in the English canon. Each works present appears in Dickens Library Online, a digital reconstruction of the works the author was known to have owned in his lifetime.
(Sold as a group lot, not subject to return.)