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Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne). Sketches of Young Gentlemen, Dedicated to the Young Ladies. Chapman and Hall, London, 1840.

Price: US$78.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hablot Knight Browne (1815 - 1882) was an English artist and illustrator. Well known by his pen name, Phiz, he illustrated books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth. This copy is very good in 1/2 calf on tan morocco boards, with gilt title and ruling on the spine. Minor edge wear and two small chips on front board edges. Binding is quite good, and the text is clean and unmarked.

Seller: Stanley Louis Remarkable Books, Saint Charles, IL, U.S.A.

(DICKENS, Charles) (CASWALL, Edward). Sketches of Young Ladies: in which these interesting members of the animal kingdom are classified, according to their several instincts, habits, and general characteristics. By "Quiz". With six illustrations by "Phiz".. Chapman & Hall. [c.1840], 1840.

Price: US$171.54 + shipping

Description: Front. & plates by Phiz. Orig. white printed boards; spine a little fragile, chipped at tail. A good-plus copy of an early edition. Although undated, this copy is likely from about 1840.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

[Dickens, Charles]. Sketches of Young Couple; with an Urgent Remonstrance to the Gentlemen of England (being Bachelors or Widowers), on the Present Alarming Crisis.. London, Chapman and Hall 1840 1840, 1840.

Price: US$411.84 + shipping

Description: First edition. 92, (4) (publ cat) pp. + 6 plates by "Phiz" Publisher's printed grey-green boards, spine partly damaged and repaired with tape. Inside front cover with piece of paper pasted over signature, half-title with signature, some minor stains in the text.

Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden

DICKENS, CHARLES. SKETCHES OF YOUNG COUPLES; WITH AN URGENT REMONSTRANCE TO THE GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND. Chapman & Hall, London, 1840.

Price: US$416.98 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: pp: [1-7]8-92 [4]. Professionally bound in dark green half leather over marbled boards, raised bands, title and decoration on spine. All edges trimmed. Includes four pages of adverts, frontispiece illustration, and new endpapers. Includes six illustrations by Phiz. The first separate appearance of this story. It was originally issued as a companion to Dickens's 'Sketches of Young Gentlemen' 1838. The "present alarming crisis" referred to in the subtitle is Dickens's prediction that in 1840 the young ladies of England would rise up and demand matrimony of all eligible young men -- encouraged by the fact that it was leap year, and in particular by the fact that Queen Victoria had just announced her engagement. A near fine copy.

Seller: MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS, UXBRIDGE, ON, Canada

Dickens, Charles, Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne. Sketches of Young Couples: With an Urgent Remonstrance to the Gentlemaen of England (Being Bachelors or Widowers), on the Present Alarming Crisis. Chapman and Hall, 1840, Londion, 1840.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Three quarter blue leather over marbled paper covered boards. Raised spine decorated in gilt. This slim volume was orginally issued in fragile pictorial grey-green wrappers, which are now very scarce. The present binding is by Blackwell, with new marbled endpapers [to match paper on covers], and bound without ads and half- title as per usual. All edges gilt, 6 illustrations by "Phiz" [Hablot Knight Browne]. But for very mild, incidental rubbing to heel of backstrip a very fine copy, with text free from foxing and plates very clean. Inside front cover exhibits book plate of previous owner. This was the "second collection of 'humerous' papers by Dickens" as Eckel writes, the first being "Sketches of Young Gentlemen", published two years earlier in 1838. A scarce early Dickens peice, in very nice condition. Podeschi B87; Smith II p.3-7; Carr B474; Eckel p. 106-7 Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles. Sketches of Young Couples. , 1840.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Sketches of Young Couples by Charles Dickens. First edition in ¾ morocco, raised bands and matching marbled paper on the binding and endpapers. Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London, 1840. Binding is in near fine plus condition. Contents clean, Foxing to the half-title page through to the title-page. 6 full page plates each with edge toning. Title-page with the number 860 stamped in small letters at the top. Overall a very nice copy of a scarce Dicken s item. 92 pages plus ads. 4 ¼ x 6 3/8 inches. Boards with pictorial paper bound in. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #19-119. Price: $750.

Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.

DICKENS, CHARLES.. Sketches of Young Couples. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840, 1840.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. While usually found rebound, this copy is in the publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; bookplates on the front free endpaper and pastedown; spine chipped; minor foxing; good to very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles; with Six Illustrations By "Phiz" (Hablot K. Browne). Sketches of Young Couples: With an Urgent Remonstrance to the Gentlemaen of England (Being Bachelors or Widowers), on the Present Alarming Crisis. Chapman & Hall, London, 1840.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Uncommon, and especially so in the publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards. Presented in a handsome custom clamshell case of quarter dark green morocco over green buckram with inner case of green buckram, the case near Fine with light rubbing. Very Good Minus, front board detached, 1/2" of paper loss at bottom of spine. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

DICKENS, Charles.. Sketches of Young Couples; with an urgent remonstrance to the Gentlemen of England (being bachelors or widowers), on the present alarming crisis. With six illustrations by Phiz.. Chapman & Hall. 1840, 1840.

Price: US$1072.13 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. Front. & five plates, 4pp ads. Orig. pale blue-green printed boards; expertly recased retaining most of orig. upettered spine. Smith II, 2; the spine is not plain as in Smith, but is uplettered: 'Sketches of Young Couples'. Early issue without letter 't' in 'present' on the fifth line of p.8. A further collection of humorous sketches for which Dickens received two hundred pounds, and which distracted him from completing Barnaby Rudge. The 'Urgent Remonstrance' followed upon Queen Victoria's announcement: 'It is my intention to ally myself in marriage with Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha'. Dickens points out that as 1840 is a 'Bissextile, Leap Year, in which it is held and considered lawful for any lady to offer and submit proposals of marriage to any gentleman. Her Majesty's said Most Gracious communication, has filled the heads of diverse young ladies in this Realm with certain new ideas destructive to the peace of mankind, that never entered their imagination before'.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

DICKENS, Charles.. Master Humphrey's Clock. With illustrations by George Cattermole & Hablot Browne.. Chapman & Hall. 1840-41, 1840.

Price: US$1072.13 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. 3 vols. Fronts, illus., Dedication & Preface in vol. I. Orig. vertical-grained brown cloth, boards blocked in blind with gilt clock centrepieces, gilt spines; one gathering sl. proud in vol. II. Contemp. signatures of James Machill on leading pastedown in all 3 vols. A v.g. bright copy. Smith I, 6; primary binding. After withdrawing from the editorship of Bentley's Miscellany, Dickens embarked on his own weekly periodical, Master Humphrey's Clock, published by Chapman & Hall. Dickens felt that his readers had become weary of stories in monthly parts, and outlined his plans for a weekly publication in a letter to John Forster in July 1839. His intention was to introduce 'a little club or knot of characters and to carry their personal histories and proceedings through the work; to introduce fresh characters constantly; to reintroduce Mr Pickwick and Sam Weller; to write amusing essays on the various foibles of the day as they arise; to take advantage of passing events; and to vary the form of the papers by throwing them into sketches, letters from imaginary correspondents, and so forth, so as to diversify the content as much as possible'. From the outset there was no intention for the work to contain a full-scale prose narrative, but rather the idea was that it would be, in the words of G.K. Chesterton, 'a kind of Dickens Miscellany'. An advertisement printed in The Examiner of 29th March, 1840, stated that Master Humphrey's Clock would 'strike one' on the following 4th April, and the new venture began on that date with a circulation of 70,000. But much to Dickens's chagrin, initial enthusiasm fell away so rapidly that the original project was abandoned and a novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, was begun in the fourth number. This was followed by Barnaby Rudge. After eighteen months Dickens felt he had not solved the 'problems of editorship' and closed the periodical which 'became one of the lost books of the earth'.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

DICKENS, Charles.. Master Humphrey's Clock. In the 88 weekly parts: Saturday April 4th, 1840 - (Saturday Nov. 27, 1841).. Chapman & Hall. 1840-41, 1840.

Price: US$1715.40 + shipping

Description: Illus. by George Cattermole & H.K. Browne. Sewn as issued in orig. white decorated wrappers. This is a generally well-preserved set of the weekly parts, but lacks the very last number, No. 88. Barnaby Rudge finishes at the end of No. 87, with No. 88 made up of preliminary material not integral to the novels. There is occasional dusting or chipping to the edges of the printed wrappers, but overall the condition is very good. With the following defects: No. 1 wrappers dusted & torn; the back wrapper to No. 16 is detached; wrappers to No. 36 detached; Nos 81, 82 & 86, 87 are without their wrappers. This was the only one of Dickens's novels to appear in weekly instalments, each of which contained twelve pages. It was issued simultaneously in monthly parts, which consisted of four or five of the weekly numbers trimmed down and bound together in specifically designed green wrappers (see following item). After withdrawing from the editorship of Bentley's Miscellany, Dickens embarked on his own weekly periodical, Master Humphrey's Clock, published by Chapman & Hall. Dickens felt that his readers had become weary of stories in monthly parts, and outlined his plans for a weekly publication in a letter to John Forster in July 1839. His intention was to introduce 'a little club or knot of characters and to carry their personal histories and proceedings through the work; to introduce fresh characters constantly; to reintroduce Mr Pickwick and Sam Weller; to write amusing essays on the various foibles of the day as they arise; to take advantage of passing events; and to vary the form of the papers by throwing them into sketches, letters from imaginary correspondents, and so forth, so as to diversify the content as much as possible'. From the outset there was no intention for the work to contain a full-scale prose narrative, but rather the idea was that it would be, in the words of G.K. Chesterton, 'a kind of Dickens Miscellany'. An advertisement printed in The Examiner of 29th March, 1840, stated that Master Humphrey's Clock would 'strike one' on the following 4th April, and the new venture began on that date with a circulation of 70,000. But much to Dickens's chagrin, initial enthusiasm fell away so rapidly that the original project was abandoned and a novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, was begun in the fourth number. This was followed by Barnaby Rudge. After eighteen months Dickens felt he had not solved the 'problems of editorship' and closed the periodical which 'became one of the lost books of the earth'.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

DICKENS, Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock. Chapman and Hall 1840-41, London, 1840.

Price: US$1760.00 + shipping

Description: Bound from the original parts. 3 tall octavo volumes (26cm); publisher's purple-brown vertical-ribbed cloth, covers decorated with blind border of thick and thin fillets and broad elaborate flower leaf and stem design, with spines lettered and decorated in gilt with five scrolled shields and three leaf-bulb designs; primary binding, with the hands on gilt clocks on each front cover pointing to the hour which corresponds to the appropriate volume number; variant marbled endpapers; [2], [iv], 306; [vi], 306; [vi], 426pp; illus. with three frontispieces and numerous wood-engravings in text by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne ["Phiz"]. Previous owner's name ("Mrs. Eden") written in a contemporary hand at center of first blank in each volume; hint of sunning to spines, with spine ends lightly softened; light wear to lower board edges, with brief exposure to lower corners; slight forward lean to Vol.1; Vol.3 expertly re-hinged; occasional finger soil to margins, though generally clean throughout and free of foxing; an attractive, Very Good+ set overall. Master Humphrey's Clock was planned to be a collection of stories and sketches told by Master Humphrey and his circle of friends, as Dickens outlined in his preface - written in weekly parts over 40 months. The original scheme was not successful, and Dickens altered the format to make Master Humphrey's material a framework for his novels, The Old Curiosity Shop (nos.6-45) and Barnaby Rudge (nos.46-88).

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

DICKENS, Charles.. Sketches of Young Couples; with an urgent remonstrance to the gentlemen of England (being bachelors or widowers), on the present alarming crisis.. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840, 1840.

Price: US$1949.32 + shipping

Description: First edition, the copy of the bibliographer Walter Smith, photographed and described in his bibliography of Dickens, and inscribed on the front free endpaper in pencil "purchased from Harry Levinson Walter E. Smith". The book is "a collection of eleven sketches plus an 'urgent remonstrance' and a conclusion, archly ridiculing contemporary types, in response to the announcement by Queen Victoria of her intention to marry Prince Albert. the sketches were not collected in any edition of Dickens's works during his lifetime" (Schlicke, p. 546). It was the final in a series of sketches - Sketches of Young Ladies was published by Edward Caswell in 1837, which Dickens followed with Sketches of Young Gentlemen in 1838. Eckel, p. 106; Smith, II, 2. Paul Schlicke, ed., The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens, 2011. Octavo. Original green boards printed in black, plainly rebacked to style. Elaborate black quarter morocco box with floral cloth sides and interior. With 6 steel engravings by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). Recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box. Slight superficial cracking to joints, plates a little foxed. A very good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom