[Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870]. Pierce, Gilbert A. With addtions by William A. Wheeler

The DICKENS DICTIONARY. A Key to the Characters and Principal Incidents in the Tales of Charles Dickens

London: Chapman & Hall, 1878. 1st edition thus. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. 607 pp (including index). 8vo. VG (sp sunned/some foxing/front hinge starting/label removal shadow to front board).

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Adcock, A. St. John

FAMOUS HOUSES And LITERARY SHRINES Of LONDON

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1929. 1st printing of the revised edition. Blue cloth binding. No dust jacket. 264 pp (including Index). Illustrated. 12mo. Average wear. Spine darkened. Very Good. Includes settings used by Dickens in his novels.

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Andrews, Malcolm, et al. - editors

The DICKENSIAN

London: The Dickens House, (various). 1st printing. Green wrappers, stapled. Divers paginations. Illustrated. 8vo. G+ - Fine. Prices a function of age and condition. Minimum sale price is Five dollars. Many issues in stock, from as early as 1905, and prices vary according to age & condition, with the listed price as a minimum. Annual volumes are listed individually, and the listings can be found in the Dickens section of the Tavistock Books website.

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[Dickens Connection]. Bentley, Nathaniel [1735? - 1809].  Rokeby, Baron Matthew Robinson-Morris [1713 - 1800]. 

The ECCENTRIC And EXTRAORDINARY HISTORY Of NATH. BENTLEY, ESQ.; Together with an Accurate Description of his Singular Habitation, Usually Denominated the Dirty Warehouse in Leadenhall Street, with Many Curious and Original Anecdotes, Never Before Published; to Which is Prefixed the Strange and Eccentric Life and Adventures of Lord Rokeby, Whose General Propensity was Living in Water

London: Printed for Tegg & Castleman, at the Marvelous & Eccentric Book Warehouse, 122, St. John-Street, West Smithfield, and Sold by Champante & Whitrow, Aldgate. 1803. 1st Edition. Period full brown tree calf binding with later respining to style. Later eps. 36 pp. Frontispiece. 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/8". Binding - modest wear, VG+. Text-block - age-toning, the occasional smudge. Overall, Very Good. Bentley "commonly known as Dirty Dick, was an 18th and 19th-century merchant who owned a hardware shop and warehouse in London, and is one person who is considered as a possible inspiration for Miss Havisham in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, after he refused to wash following the death of his fiancée on their wedding day." [Wiki] Scarce publication, OCLC records only 5 holding institutions world-wide. This title is one of 3 titles bound together into one volume: volume also includes Tavistocks Books inventory IDs 49598 & 49599. The price is for the one volume containing all 3 titles.

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[Bibliography]

A DICKENS LIBRARY: The Sawyer Collection

Letchworth: Privately Printed, 1936. 1st ed (NCBEL III, 782). Stiff green wrappers. Pictorial paste-down of Boz on front wrapper. 108 pp, illustrated, sm. 4to. VG (some soiling & edgewear/faint foxing to prelims). Sawyer a prominent collector from the early 20th c.

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Bromley, Isaac H[ILL. 1833 - 1898]. Depew, Chauncey M[itchell. 1834 - 1928] - Subject. Gibson, Charles Dana [1867 - 1944] & Beard, Daniel Carter [1850 - 1941] - Illustrators

"OUR CHAUNCEY" After Dinner Rhymes.; Delivered at the Annual Dinner of the New York Yale Alumni Association, January 23, 1891

New York: New York Printing Co. (The Republic Press) Publishers, 1891. 1st edition thus, Revised and Freshened with Notes by the Author. Original publisher's blue cloth spine over silver patterned paper covered boards with gilt stamped lettering. Green patterned paper paste-downs. 45, [1] pp. Index at rear. Partially unopened. Frontis of Depew. Oblong format: 8" x 9-3/8". Shelf & edgewear. Bookplate & booklabel to front paste-down. Age-toning to free eps. Removed library pocket from rear paste-down. About Very Good.

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[Exhibtion Catalogue]. Browne, Hablôt Knight [1815 - 1882] - Subject

CATALOGUE Of The MEMORIAL EXHIBITION Of The WORKS Of The Late HABLOT K. BROWNE ("Phiz").; Exhibited at the Liverpool Art Club, February, 1883

Liverpool: Published by the Club. Printed by Lee and Nightingale, North John Street, 1883. 1st Edition (stated). Original publisher's printed grey card-stock covers, stapled. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 17, [3] pp. List of Exhibit Contributors, pp. [18] - [19]. 386 items in the exhibit. Head- tailpieces. 8vo. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". General wear, soiling & age-toning. Very Good. Browne was a highly regarded 19th C. illustrator, better known by his pen name of "Phiz", who worked with such luminaries as Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth. Of the ten books by Dickens which Phiz illustrated, he is best known for Pickwick Papers [coming in after Seymour & Buss], Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield and Bleak House.

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Bonham-Carter, Victor

AUTHORS By PROFESSION. Volume I.

Los Altos CA: William Kaufmann Inc, 1978. 1st edition. Hardback. Dust jacket. 252 pp, 8vo. NF/NF A history of issues important to authors, e.g. copyright, royalties, etc. This volume covers the period from the Introductionof Printing to the Copyright Act of 1911. Dickens, of course, was very active with regard to the copyright issue.

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Challinor, W[illiam. 1821 - 1896]. Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870] - Of similar mind

The COURT Of CHANCERY; Its Inherent Defects, as Exhibited in Its System of Procedure and of Fees with Suggestions for a Remedy.; Also an Appendix, Containing Extracts from Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on Fees

London: Stefens and Norton, 26, Bell Yard, 1849. Second Edition. Lacks original wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 56, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-3/8". Minor wear & soiling to outer leaves. Age-toning. Very Good. Any fan of Dickens’ works will immediately recognize the Court of Chancery as a key player in his impactful novel from the early 1850s, Bleak House, wherein the Court is pilloried in his recounting of the seemingly never-ending case, Jarndyce vs Jarndyce. And Dickens' views foreshadowed by Challinor, who, in his opening paragraph of this 1849 publication, opines thusly on the Court: "The delay, expense, and practical injustice of the Court of Chancery .. I think it a duty to point out to the best of my power, and as fairly as I can, some of the inherent defects of this Court -- a Court which has for so many years, pressed like an incubus, on those, whose property has been unfortunately the subject of dispute." He then cites a case documenting his view of the Court. Judicial reform finally came to the English Courts with the 1875 enactment of the Supreme Court of Judicature Act, which brought the various courts under one roof, so to speak.

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Charles, Edwin [Grigsby, Charles E.]. [Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870] - Subject. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith [1874 - 1936] - Contributor

SOME DICKENS WOMEN.; Foreword by G. K. Chesterton

New York: Frederick Stokes, 1926. 1st US edition. Blue cloth binding lettered in gilt. No dust jacket. xvi, 350 pp (including Index). Frontis of Dickens. 8vo. VG+ (spine slightly sunned).

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[Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870]. Calthrop, Dion Clayton and Max Pemberton - Editors

The DICKENS SOUVENIR Of 1912

London: Chapman & Hall, 1912. 1st edition (NCBEL III, 831). Original red cloth w/ gilt lettering/facsimile signature on front cover (a la the Charles Dickens edition of the late 1860s). TEG. 236 pp. Illustrated. 4to. 10" x 7-1/2". Abt VG (some binding wear & soiling/lacks ffep). Issued during the Dickens' centenary.

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Collins, Wilkie [1824 - 1889]

SIX LETTERS Of WILKIE COLLINS. From the Charlotte Ashley Felton Memorial Library at Stanford University.; Introduction by J. Terry Bender, Keeper of Rare Books at Stanford Library

San Francisco: Chas. Wood & Associates, 1957. 1st edition. Limited to 350cc. Red cloth binding. Paper title label to front board. Unpaginated. Printed by the Black Vine Press. Photograph of Collins as frontis taken by Bassano in London sometime in the latter half of the 1800s. Sq 8vo. VG+ (light wear at the extremities). 6 facsimilies from Stanford's collection: includes such as that from Collins to Ally Sloper (23rd Feb, 1886) regarding Collins' receipt of the Order of Merit.

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Darton, F. J. Harvey. Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870] - Contributor

VINCENT CRUMMLES. His Theatre and His Times

London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. Ltd, 1926. 1st edition. LIMITED to 400 copies. Quarter-bound maroon cloth spine over beige cloth boards. Printed paper title label to spine. Purple printed paper DJ. lxx, 230 pp. Partially unopened. Many inserted plates. Royal 8vo. 10-1/2" x 6-3/4". Light wear & soiling to volume. VG - VG+. Dust Jacket with sunned spine & significant edge chipping, so only Good.

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[Bibliography]. Davis, George W.

The POSTHUMOUS PAPERS Of The PICKWICK CLUB: Some New Bibliographic Discoveries

London: Marks & Co, 1928. 1st ed. Green printed paper wrappers, design after that of the original Pickwick publication in 1836. 20 pp, 8vo. VG+ (browning at spine).

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Davis, George W.

The POSTHUMOUS PAPERS Of The PICKWICK CLUB: Some New Bibliographic Discoveries

London: Folcroft Library Editions, 1971. Reprint of the 1928 1st edition. Yellow buckram cloth binding. 20 pp. 8vo. VG (bpt).

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