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Fine Leather Binding

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Author

Charles Dickens

BOZ

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Year of Publication

1837

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Publisher

Edinburgh and Dublin: R Bentley.

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For full description see below - after all photographs

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Description:

Edinburgh and Dublin: R Bentley, 1837. Full leather binding by Temple Bookbinders in Oxford with the binder's mark in gilt to the rear paste-down (book binders to the Queen). A specially made-up volume, made up from various parts (collated below) which probably made sense to the commissioning person only.

With a Signed letter from author, Charles Dickens. AUTHENTICATED BY Dr Leon Litvack, THE Principal EDITOR OF "THE CHARLES DICKENS LETTERS PROJECT" and Reader in Victorian Studies at The School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen's University, Belfast and Refenced in Volume 12, page 649 of Pilgrim's "The Letters of Charles Dickens" Published by the Oxford University Press.

Rebound in exactly the same order and collation as originally bound - a 'one-off'.

Full red Morocco boards with gilt decoration on spine and gilt line borders to the boards. 5 raised bands and 6 compartments, with gilt and blind borders. Gilt lines  to the inner paste down. Title in tooled gilt on the spine in the second and third compartment.

Gilt top edge. New paste downs and end papers.

A Gads Hill headed note paper letter from the author, Charles Dickens, or ‘Boz’ dated 1867 pasted to the third page after the title. Lightly foxed throughout. A fine copy in decorative gilt full morocco binding.

A ‘made up’ volume including parts of Bentley's Miscellany with various title pages, extracts, adverts.

Contributions: by "Boz", [including:] The Extraordinary Gazette. Speech of his Mightiness on Opening the Second Number of Bentley's Miscellany, Edited by "Boz" [and other extracts], with an AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("Charles Dickens") to C. Welsh Mason written from Gads Hill Place and dated 23 May 1867, promising to read Mason's manuscript with a view to its publication in 'All the Year Round', but suggesting that its length may "preclude the possibility of its acceptance for those pages", engraved portrait, 2 etched plates after Cruikshank, the letter pasted in between the specially printed title-page and contents leaf, red morocco leather binding, gilt decorations and title, original front wrapper by Cruikshank (for 1 December 1837) bound in, 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1837-1839.

A specially made up volume (in other words a unique collection of pages and adverts collected by a previous owner with no real logic that can be attributed to the collection - not by me at least!), including a letter from Dickens to the novelist C. Welsh Mason in his capacity as editor of All the Year Round, and a copy of The Extraordinary Gazette..., the scarce 4-page supplement to Bentley's Miscellany which contains an early plug for Oliver Twist in the 'Note of the Reporter' at the end.

The extracts contained in the volume include:

Bentley Miscellany title page dated December 1, 1837 - see image;

Bentley Miscellany, Contributions, title page dated 1837 - 1838 - 1839 - see image;

Letter signed by Charles Dickens on Gad's Hill headed note paper;

Contents page;

Preface dated 1889;

Frontispiece portrait of Charles Dickens by Frith and Graves;

Title page to Bentley's Miscellany Vol I. dated 1837;

"Extraordinary Gazette" 4pp;

Editor's Address on Completion of the First Volume [iii and iv];

Title page to Bentley's Miscellany Vol II. dated 1837;

Address [iii, iv];

Title page to Bentley's Miscellany Vol III. dated 1838;

Preface dated June 1 1838;

Title page to Bentley's Miscellany Vol IV. dated 1838;

Engraved plate entitled "Ned Trigger in the kitchen of Mudfog House" "London: Richard Bentley, Jan'y 2nd 1837";

"The Public Life of Mr Tulrumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog" pp 49 - 63, with a replaced lower half of p63;

"Stray Chapters by Boz" pp 291-297;

"Stray Chapters by Boz" pp 515-518;

"Full Report of the First Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything" pp 397-413, some dampstaining to the outer edges of these pages, with a replaced lower half of p413;

Engraving entitled "Automaton Police Office and Real Offenders from the Model Exhibited before Section B of the Mudfog Association" by Cruikshank;

"Full Report of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything" pp 209-227, with a rebacked (with paper) 227;

"A Lament Over the Bannister" - pp 151-152;"Familiar Epistle from a Parent to a Child" - pp 219-220;

"Bentley's Miscellany" August 1842 Contents Page;

"Poetical Epistle From Father Prout to Boz" pp 71 only, page rebacked;

"Bentley's Advertiser" Mar 1837, pp 29-46;

Advert for the "Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart" pp 1-16;

"Bentley's Advertiser" Apr 1837, pp 47-60;

"Mr Bentley is preparing for Publication, the Following New Works etc etc" pp 1-16;

"Bentley's Advertiser" Oct 1837, pp 31-36, 39-49;

"Bentley's Advertiser" Sep 1838, pp 53-54;

"Bentley's Advertiser" Feb 1837, pp 21-28;

60 blank 'filler' pages.

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The letter reads:

“Thursday Twenty Third May 1867

Dear Sir

My absence has prevented my receiving your note in due course.

I have sent for your MS [Manuscript?], and will take care to return it to Torrington Square tomorrow. If it be of any great length, I fear the arrangements we had entered into for “All The Year Round” will preclude the possibility of its acceptance for those pages. But in any case it shall have my prompt attentions.

Faithfully yours

Charles Dickens

C Welsh Mason Esquire”

An unusual volume preserved as originally bound with a signed letter on Gads Hill letter headed paper dated 1867.

Condition Report

Externally

• Spine – fine condition.
• Joints – fine condition.
• Corners – fine condition.
• Boards – fine condition.
• Page edges – good condition – top edge gilt, dust faded.
• See above and photos.

Internally

• Hinges – fine condition.
• Paste downs – fine condition.
• End papers – fine condition.
• Title – very good condition – foxed.
• Pages – good condition – foxed.
• Binding – fine condition – solid and attractive.
• See photos

Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1837
Binding: Hardback

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