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DICKENS, CHARLES. PICTURES FROM ITALY. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$120.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: pp: [viii][1]2-269 [3]. Original blue cloth boards with blind stamp decoration, two pages of adverts, pictorial title page. In 1844, Dickens took a respite from writing novels and for several months travelled through France and Italy with his family. About one-third of the book first appeared in the 'Daily News' from January to March, 1946. These were edited (some additions, some deletions) for the book. In the book, Dickens wrote of his encounters with Italy's colourful street life. He was a bit daring, travelling to the summit of Mt. Vesuvius on an icy night. And this writing captures the imagination. Dickens is particularly drawn to the costumes, cross-dressing, and sheer exuberance of the Roman carnival. This is a very good copy with moderate edge wear to the boards and soiling to the edge.
Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: v, 270 pp. Vignette Illustrations on Wood by Samuel Palmer. 16mo, 19th c. half morocco, gilt spine; marbled sides; a.e.g. First edition. Slight use to extremities of spine; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$169.32 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, vignette title, initial & final ad. leaves. Orig. blue fine diaper cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; outer edges of boards damp-stained. Dickens centenary stamp on leading f.e.p. A fair copy only. Smith II, 7. In the primary binding with 'The Reader's Passport' in gothic type and the advertisements for the 12th, 10th and 20th editions of Christmas books.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. PICTURES FROM ITALY. Bradbury and Evans, 1846.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo; 269 pp; First edition, second printing. Minor edge wear on spine and corners, corners are bumped, binding is cocked and has a weak spot in the middle but is still secure. Light foxing and toning, previous owner's name on front pastedown. An attractive copy, title in gilt on spine.
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$211.66 + shipping
Description: First edition. Small octavo (17 x11cm). pp. [iv],270. Without the half-title and publisher's advert leaves, as is often the case with bound copies. Vignettes to the title, and the first & final leaves of text designed & engraved on wood by Samuel Palmer. Contemporary half green calf, with label, gilt, with the label of 'Hersant Binder 15 Gower Place' on the endpaper. Lighty rubbed, some slight wear to the upper edge of the leading board, otherwise Vg. Contemporary engraved armorial bookplate. [Eckel 126; Pine-Coffin 844.5; Grolier Dickens 143: Spawn & Kinsella 197/463]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$211.66 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, vignette title, final ad. leaf; initial ad. leaf neatly removed. Orig. blue vertical grained cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; spine dulled & a little rubbed at head & tail, inner hinges cracking. French ownership inscription on half title. A good sound copy. Smith II, 7. In the primary binding with 'The Reader's Passport' in gothic type and the advertisements for the 12th, 10th and 20th editions of Christmas books.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. Pictures from Italy. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Slight wear to top of spine, small cloth repair to base. Vignette illustrations by Samuel Palmer.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. Pictures from Italy (first edition).. Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846., 1846.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, second state with "Twentieth Edition." noted in ad at rear for Cricket on the Hearth. Pp. 270, (2) ads, woodcut ill. on title page, others in text, 12mo, original green blindstamped cloth, gilt titles. Contents mostly VG with original hinges, clean leaves, no owner's inscriptions. Title page has a one-inch square cut from the upper corner. Rear hing cracking a bit but firm. The cloth bumped and worn through a bit at the tips but very bright and clean. Cloth and titles not faded. About 1/8 loss due to wear at head and tail of backstrip, few small chips to green covering along rear joint. Quite an attractive copy overall, priced well with respect to condition.
Seller: Inno Dubelaar Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$253.99 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, vignette title, initial & final ad. leaves. Orig. blue fine diaper cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; lacks leading f.e.p., a little darkened, sl. wear to corners & head & tail of spine Smith II, 7. In the primary binding with 'The Reader's Passport' in gothic type and the advertisements for the 12th, 10th and 20th editions of Christmas books.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS Charles. Pictures from Italy. Bradbury & Evans 1846, 1846.
Price: US$282.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: original decorated cloth, recased and rebacked, minor marks to covers, vignette illustrations by Samuel Palmer, lacking final advertisement leaf, lightly thumbed, later endpapers, good. first edition; 270 pages Smith II.7
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$282.21 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, vignette title, initial & final ad. leaves. Orig. blue fine diaper cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; head & tail of spine a little worn, crack in following hinge neatly repaired. A good-plus copy. Smith II 7. In the primary binding with 'The Reader's Passport' in gothic type and the advertisements for the 12th, 10th and 20th editions of Christmas books.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Dickens, Charles. PICTURES FROM ITALY. , 1846.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original blind-stamped blue cloth. First Edition of Dickens's account of his 1844 tour of Italy. His description of the coaching trips which took him from place to place for five months is full of wonderful observations of his fellow-men. His account of a public execution in Rome is remarkable -- his emotional reaction is held firmly in control but revulsion at the whole proceeding is implicit in every line [CGEL] This copy is in the primary (fine-diaper cloth) binding; copies were also issued in ribbed cloth of the same color. This is a very good copy, with little wear but with some soil on the covers; the endpapers are old but not original. The front flyleaf bears the penciled signature of Walter E. Smith, bibliographer of Dickens. Smith II pp 44-58.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$378.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. First edition. Original blue cloth. Original endpapers present. Pp [viii], 270, plus ad leaf to rear. Label sometime removed from front board, leaving a faint trace, light splash marks to rear board. Early ownership signature in pencil to flyleaf recto. Collated complete and correct. On Page 1, Reader s Passport is in Gothic type, Cricket in the Hearth is advertised as twentieth edition at 5s on final ad leaf, page 5 and 270 are unnumbered. A good example of Dickens only book of travel (see photos).
Seller: Celsus Books, PBFA., London, United Kingdom
Charles Dickens. Pictures from Italy. Bradbury & Evans, 1846.
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Issue. (ii) advert + half Title + vignette t.p (ii) + 270pp + (ii) adverts. Vignettes by Samuel Palmer. Margins slightly browned, slight stain to top of P106/107. Pages 5 & 270 un-numbered, blind embossed blue cloth rubbing to cornersGilt titles to slightly bumped spine. Scans available on request
Seller: Jack Ryder Books, Liskeard, United Kingdom
DICKENS Charles. Pictures from Italy. Bradbury & Evans 1846, 1846.
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: original cloth, spine bumped, wood vignettes by Samuel Palmer, advertisement leaf, ownership signature front pastedown, a nice copy. first edition; 270 pages Walter Smith II:7
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$390.00 + shipping
Description: 270 pages. 17 1/2 x 12 cm. ECKEL pp.135-136. The efficacy for Dickens in this journey and vacation with his family: his encounters with Italy's colorful street life that captured his imagination and is described here. Two pages of adverts. Interior contents clean, backstrip nicked head and foot. Orig. publisher's blue cloth decorated in blind. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$423.31 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, vignette title, initial & final ad. leaves. Orig. blue horizontal grained cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt; sl. marked in lower margin of front board, head of following hinge sl. fragile. Signatures on e.ps. A nice bright copy. Smith II, 7. In the primary binding with 'The Reader's Passport' all in gothic type and the advertisements for the 12th, 10th and 20th editions of Christmas books.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. First Edition, matching all first edition issue points listed in Smith, Eckel, and Podeschi. Octavo. 269 [3]. Includes 2 pp. advertisements and half title preliminaries; four black and white illustrations by Palmer; advertisements to rear with twelfth, tenth, and twentieth editions of Dickens' Christmas books; seven titles plus Portrait listed on final advertisements page. Bound in blue fine-diaper cloth; front and rear stamped in blind; gilt lettering to spine; yellow-white endpapers. Recased with original spine laid down; loss to original spine at extremities. Scuffs and smudges to boards with patchy discoloration; slightly heavier soiling to rear; gilt lettering rubbed; brief exposure to edges. Binding sound. Previous owner's armorial bookplate (Burton) to front pastedown. Mild wrinkling to pages; brief marginal chipping in spots; pages else toned but unmarked. Still a Very Good copy. [Smith II 7: 48- 58 pp. ; Eckel pp. 35-36 pp.; Podeschi A98].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Moderate blue fine-diaper cloth; front and back covers are stamped in blind with a triple line border. Illustated wth 4 vignette engravings by Samuel Palmer Adve rts and all text points called for in first edition. Light cover wear and corners lightly bumped. Old owners signature on front fly. A very good copy in the original cloth. Smith II 48
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$641.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. [ii], 270pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Original blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine with ornate blind-stamped decorated borders to the upper and lower boards. With a title page decoration and four wood cuts by Samuel Palmer, which were omitted from all subsequent editions. Pre-title page advertisements for 'Oliver Twist' and 'A New English Story', and final advertisements for 'The Chimes' (twelfth edition), 'A Christmas Carol' (tenth edition) and 'The Cricket on the Hearth' (twentieth edition), plus eight further titles. Spine ends and corner tips a little bruised with some quite light marking to the cloth and an inch-long partial-tear to the cloth at the overhanging fore edge of the upper board. A small area of light miscellaneous soiling to the head of one text leaf. Former owner name and date pencilled to the head of the front free endpaper, "Kay Gittings 1947", i.e. Katherine Edith Gittings, née Campbell, the first wife of writer Robert Gittings. Dearer inkstamp to the base of the front free endpaper. A very good copy. A travelogue of Italy, where Dickens toured for some months with his family in 1844. Elements of this book were first published in 'The Daily News' under the title 'Travelling Sketches - Written on the Road'; the remainder was composed specially for this bookform edition.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$705.52 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. Half title, vignette title, initial & final ad. leaves; v. sl. damp mark affecting first few leaves. Orig. blue fine diaper cloth, blocked in blind, spine lettered in gilt. Prize inscription on leading f.e.p., 1856. Smith II, 7. In the primary binding with 'The Reader's Passport' in gothic type and the advertisements for the 12th, 10th and 20th editions of Christmas books.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$716.57 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: London, published for the author, Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, [1846] MDCCCXLVI, in ottavo, legatura originale in piena tela blu con lavorazioni a motivi geometrici impresse al piatti; titoli in oro al dorso, pagine: [10, di cui 2 di pubblicità] 269 [5, di cui 2 di pubblicità sulle opere di Dickens]. Prima edizione. Più che buon esemplare (qualche gora e fioritura ai piatti; tagli leggermente bruniti, con minime fioriture). Interno ottimo (leggere fioriture ad alcune carte). Firma di possesso strettamente coeva al contropiatto anteriore, datata «April 6th 1847». Diario di viaggio sulla permanenza in Italia di Dickens, basato sulle lettere che pubblicò nel «Daily News» nei primi mesi dello stesso 1846. Benché la «travel literature» fosse in voga ormai da quasi un secolo, lautore scelse un approccio non convenzionale al genere, non concentrandosi sulle rovine antiche ma sulla vibrante vita di città.
Seller: Orsi Libri ALAI, ILAB, Milan, Italy
Price: US$721.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 269, [1], [2]ads. with half-title & initial & final advert leaves. 4 wood-engraved text illus. by Samuel Palmer. original blind-stamped cloth, rebacked with spine mounted, endpapers preserved. First Edition in Book Form. Variant binding: fine vertical rib-grained dark blue cloth, with oval rather than round centre ornament on covers, and pale yellowish endpapers. Comma after Wood on title. Smith II 7. Pine-Coffin 8445.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. Pp. [2] (two pages advertising new and revised edition of "Oliver Twist" and a new untitled novel (Dombey and Son, per Eckel), 269, [1], followed by two pages of Dickens titles. With the original backstrip, titled in gilt, bound-in. Bound in red morocco, gilt spine titles with compartments tooled in gilt with raised bands, triple rule gilt frames in gilt. Turn-ins rolled in gilt. Binding signed Zaehnsdorf. Top edge gilt. Endpapers with slight offsetting; front free endpaper with chip to lower corner; fore-edge with superficial dampstain. Corners a trifle worn and scuff on rear cover; joints expertly repaired with discrete tissue strengthening to joints. Please see photos. A handsome, presentable copy. A sumptuous Zaehnsdorf binding for Dickens' dispatches from Italy: The first few accounts were published 1846 in the paper he edited, The Daily News; five more were added to create Pictures from Italy, also 1846, presented here in the first issue of the first edition. Italy's built (and decayed) environment has been documented since Vitruvius. Dickens' brilliance? His depictions of street life, including a public execution. ECKEL, pp. 126-127; with all the points revealed by SMITH, Part II, p. 49.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens. First issue in first issue blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Publisher: Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846. First Edition. First Issue, with all correct points per Smith bibliography. 270 pages plus two pages of ads. Four woodcut vignettes by Samuel Palmer. In original diaper-grain blue cloth, decorated in blind-stamping with elaborate arabesque border and round center ornament, spine decorated in blind and lettered in gilt. A nice tight copy, binding very good plus condition, small split at top of front gutter. Contents clean, a few pages with corner folds. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #C-168. Price: $750.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Pictures From Italy. Bradbury & Evans, 1846.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [8], 270p. [2]. Publishers original blue blind stamped cloth. First Edition. Title vignette and three woodcuts by Samuel Palmer. Front inner hinge expertly reinforced. A fresh clean copy. Grolier p101-103 #143. The first American edition did not appear in print until 1877. Internally a fresh clean copy.
Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. Pictures from Italy.. Lon. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: In original blue-green blindstamped cloth with bright gilt lettering on spine. First Edition. Vignette illustrations on wood by Samuel Palmer. With Gothic lettering on p. 1 title: "The Reader's Passport" and with ads for Mr. Dickens's Works on pp. 371 and 372. The Cricket on the Hearth is advertised at "Twentieth Edition. In Foolscap 8vo, price 5s." in last line on p. 271. VG- in original blue cloth with gilt stamping on spine and blindstamped designs on front and rear boards. A tight, solid, clean copy with front hinge expertly repaired and rear hinge going. Slight spine slant with heavy chipping to the top of the spine. Overall, a handsome copy of the first edition. Scarce in the original cloth. First Edition.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Pictures From Italy. Bradbury & Evans,, London:, 1846.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/First State of Dickens Pictures from Italy is a travelogue by Charles Dickens, written in 1846. The book reveals the concerns of its author as he presents, according to Kate Flint, the country "like a chaotic magic-lantern show, fascinated both by the spectacle it offers, and by himself as spectator. A beautiful copy bound in elegant red morocco gilt, with raised bands on the spine and lettered in gilt. The original publisher's blue cloth bound in the rear. Very slight rubbing to hinges. Size: Small 8vo.
Seller: Quaker Hill Books, Redding, CT, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles.. PICTURES FROM ITALY.. Bradbury and Evans: London, 1846.
Price: US$862.50 + shipping
Description: Illustr by Samuel Palmer, 6.75 x 4.5, finely bound in full gilt ruled crushed golden morocco with raised bands; aeg, SIGNED BINDING BY BAYNTUN- RIVIERE, 270 pp, very minor cover rubbing, hinges a little loose, pp toned else a nice copy of FIRST ED, FIRST STATE with "interdicted" on p 74, "1" in p169 battered, but with unraised "E" on p(iv) and a good "r" on p122 (occasional errors); see Smith: Heritage Bookshop bibliography. Fine leather binding.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$949.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Issue, with all correct points (see Eckel, Smith, and Podeschi, referenced below). Foolscap 8vo: [8],270,2]pp, with four woodcut vignettes by Samuel Palmer (showing Villa d'Este, Colosseum, Street of the Tombs at Pompeii, and a vineyard scene). Original diaper-grain blue cloth, covers decorated in blind with elaborate arabesque border and round center ornament, spine decorated in blind and lettered in gilt, pale yellow coated end papers. A superb copy: internally virtually pristine, with crisp, clean pages; binding tight, gilt fresh and bright; lower cover with almost undetectable scattered areas of fading. Eckel, pp. 126-127. Smith II, pp. 48-58. Podeschi (Gimbel Collection) A98. Grolier (Dickens), pp. 101-103. Thomson 45. Pine-Coffin 844(5). Dickens, his wife, Kate, and her sister Georgina, with the Dickens's five children and several servants, left London by coach on July 2, 1844, bound for Italy. After one month's stay in the Villa Pallavicino della Peschiere, in Genoa (where Dickens wrote The Chimes), he and Kate left the children with Georgina and traveled south, stopping first in Pisa and Florence. In Rome, Dickens was captivated by the ruins, practically overcome, he later said, by the sight of the Coliseum. They also visited Herculaneum and Pompeii, making a perilous ascent to the rim of Vesuvius and peering into the "Hell of boiling fire below." Dickens published reports of his journey in the Daily News, as a series of eight "Travelling Letters. Written on the Road." Pictures from Italy (incorporating the letters, with five chapters added) appeared in book form on May 18, 1846, but not before hitting a rather tortuous bump in the road: "Clarkson Stanfield had agreed to illustrate the text for Dickens but, when he read those passages of the narrative in which Dickens satirises the excesses of Catholic devotion, he resigned from the project. Stanfield was himself a prominent English Catholic, after all, as Dickens knew, and he could scarcely be connected with a publication which treats his Church's ritual as little more than a parade of mummers. . . . As usual, Dickens went at once into action in order to find a substitute; fortunately and curiously, he chose a young artist who then had no real reputation, Samuel Palmer, whose wonderful illustrations are not the least of the merits of Pictures from Italy in its final state" (Ackroyd, Dickens, pp. 491-92). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Pictures from Italy. Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: . Bound in dark green full polished calf with elaborate gilt decoratd spine, black title label on spine, triple gilt border rules to boards, gilt decorative border inside covers, marbled inside covers. Inside cover has the original spine from the first edition next to the bookplate of George Browning Anderson
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Dickens, Charles. Pictures from Italy. Bradbury and Evans for the Author,, 1846.
Price: US$1026.21 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Pictures from Italy. London 1846 first edition, First Issue with the 2pp adverts and half title preliminaries, and the rear adverts showing 12th, 10th & 20th editions of the Christmas books. Woodcut illustrations by Samuel Palmer, advertisement leaf at beginning and end, original blue cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers, minor slight discolouration to upper corners of front cover, else a Fine copy, exceptionally bright, clean and fresh copy. No ownership markings. [Smith II: 7 48-58pp; Eckel p. 35], Bradbury and Evans for the Author, 1846 8vo.
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. , 1846.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. Vignette Illustrations on Wood by Samuel Palmer. Original cloth, housed in custom brown cloth slipcase with inner cloth chemise. London: Published for the author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. $1000.00 First edition. Gimbel A98. Eckel, pp. 126-27. Smith 7. A very good copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens. First issue in first issue blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Publisher: Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846. First Edition. First Issue, with all correct points per Smith bibliography. 270 pages plus two pages of ads. Four woodcut vignettes by Samuel Palmer. In original diaper-grain blue cloth, decorated in blind-stamping with elaborate arabesque border and round center ornament, spine decorated in blind and lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers. A wonderful copy, binding is near fine condition with contents clean. Bookplate to front pastedown, owners notation in ink at the top of the ffep with June 1846 date. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #C-124. Price: $1250. Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1375.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, with the first state of the ad leaf and all first issue points as called for. With four vignette illustrations from woodcuts by Samuel Palmer. Small 8vo, in the publisherís original blue cloth cloth decorated on both covers and spine in blind, the spine lettered in gilt and decorated in blind. [2 ads.], [vi], 270 pp. An especially nice copy of this charming little book, internally extremely clean and fresh. The blue cloth bright with no fading. A VERY NICE COPY INDEED. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. A beautiful reminiscence of a tour through Italy by one of Englandís greatest writers. Dickens provides for the armchair traveler a descriptive journey through some of the most scenic areas and cities in Italy and France. His poetic and descriptive style, made famous in his many novels, is well suited to this type of travel log. The vignettes show Villa d'Este, the Colosseum, The Street of Tombs at Pompeii and a scene of a vineyard. Dickens traveled from London during the summer of 1844 and wrote not only this book and assorted articles, but also THE CHIMES, one of the Christmas books.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. , 1846.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Description: DICKENS, Charles. Pictures from Italy. Original cloth, housed in custom cloth folding box. London: Published for the Author, by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First edition, first issue. Smith II: 7. Eckel p. 126. A fine copy.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.