406. DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL). The Library Companion; or, The Young Man's Guide and the Old Man's Comfort in the choice of a Library. 2 vols. royal 8vo, polished tree calf gilt, gilt edges. Lond. 1824 * FIRST EDITION. LARGE PAPER. Very fine copy. 407. DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL). KEMPIS (THOMAS À). The Imitation of Jesus Christ. With IntroLuction and Notes by T. F. Dibdin. Front. 8vo, half morocco gilt, gilt top. Lond. Wm. Pickering, 1828 *Thick paper copy. VERY SCARCE. The Lefferts' copy. with bookplate engraved by French. 408. DIBDIN (THOMAS FROGNALL). A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour of the Northern Counties of England and Scotland. With full-page plates and vignettes. 2 vols. royal Svo, full polished calf extra, gilt tops, uncut, by TOUT. Lond. 1838 *FINE COPY. Laid in is a one-page autograph letter from the author. In this work Dibdin concluded his tours. It is an essential companion to the works on France and Germany, and, as it describes some collections that have ceased to exist, possesses an historical interest. The Posthumous Papers 409. DICKENS (CHARLES). of the Pickwick Club. FIRST EDN. etchings by Seymour and " Phiz." uncut, preserved in two half red slip cases, with gilt-tooled backs. 20 original paper parts, crushed levant morocco Lond. Chapman & Hall, 1836-7 * Unique copy. Inserted are two engraver's proofs before all letters, on India paper, of the prints-"Mr. Winkle entering the Sedan Chair," and "The Card Table at Bath.' 410. DICKENS (CHARLES). Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz." FIRST EDN. (with the border to "The Last Song "). With numerous characteristic illusts. / by Geo. Cruikshank. 2 vols. 12mo, full polished calf, extra, gilt tops, edges scraped. Lond. Bentley, 1838 ... *Laid in is a fine two-page 4to, autograph letter, signed, to Dr. Farley commencing: "Dear Sir I left London on Wednesday Oct. 10th and after a delightful journey more like Summer than Autumn and moonlight nights arrived in Dublin on Saturday afternoon. Our passage across the Channel was exactly six hours had a comfortable repose and awoke the next morning fancying I was still in Edmouth Street with this only difference I knew I was not. When I arrived no preparations had been made for the pantomime—The Tricks but the day before arrived-nor was they unpacked till the Tuesday following the state they was in was shocking to behold-The two Harlequins was as flat as a sheet of paper ... Placards announce the success of the New Pantomime and the Memoirs of Grimaldi-it is acknowledged by everyone to be the first of the kind ever produced in Dublin... JOE is a wonderful favorite here," etc., etc. 2 pp. 4to. 1821. Autograph letters of the famous clown are very rare. 411. DICKENS (CHARLES). Oliver Twist. FIRST EDN. (Second Issue.) With 24 full-page etchings by Geo. Cruikshank. 3 vols. 8vo, full polished calf, gilt-tooled backs and inside borders, gilt tops. Lond. Bentley, 1838 412. DICKENS (CHARLES). Barnaby Rudge. Illust. by Cattermole and Phiz. Royal 8vo, full green crushed levant, inside gilt borders, gilt edges, by WOOD. (No titlepage.) Lond. 1841 *PRESENTATION COPY FROM CHARLES DICKENS. Inserted is an A. L. S., 1 p. 8vo, "Devonshire Terrace, New Year's Night, 1842. Just going. My Dear Mrs. Smithson: God bless you-best regards to Smithson and love to the Beauteous. Think of us sometimes, and accept the enclosed for my poor sake ...” By 413. DICKENS (CHARLES). The Pic-Nic Papers. Various Hands. Edited by Charles Dickens. Full-page etchings by Geo. Cruikshank, "Phiz," etc. 3 vols. crown 8vo, original cloth, gilt, uncut. * First Edition. Scarce. Lond. II. Colburn, 1841 The Old Curiosity Shop. 414. DICKENS (CHARLES). Illust. by Cattermole and Phiz. crushed levant, inside gilt borders, gilt edges, by WOOD. Lond. 1841 *PRESENTATION COPY FROM CHARLES DICKENS. "Mrs. Smithson from Charles Dickens, New Year's Day, 1842," on title. 415. DICKENS (CHARLES). A Child's History of England. FIRST EDN. With illusts. 3 vols. 12mo, original cloth, gilt. Lond. 1852 416. DICKENS (CHARLES). A Tale of Two Cities. FIRST EDN. With illusts. by H. K. Browne. 8vo, full crimson crushed levant morocco extra, tooled back, sides and inside borders, gilt top, uncut, by the CLUB BINDERY. Lond. Chapman & Hall, 1860 * VERY FINE COPY. Published originally in "All the Year Round." Inscribed to Lord John Russell. Preface dated "Tavistock House, November, 1859." The D. F. Appleton copy, with bookplate. 417. DICKENS (CHARLES). Great Expectations. 3 vols. 12mo, three-quarter scarlet morocco extra, gilt tops, uncut, by TOUT. Lond. Chapman & Hall, 1861 *FINE COPY of the RARE FIRST EDITION. The Life of Charles DickEDNS. of all the volumes. Magnificently full bound 418. DICKENS (CHARLES). ens. By John Forster. FIRST Portraits on steel. 3 vols. 8vo. by ZAEHNSDORF in blue crushed levant morocco, highly ornate panelled sides, with corner ornaments, richly and artistically panelled backs and inside borders, gilt edges. Lond. 1872-74 ... *PRESENTATION COPY FROM FORSTER TO FREDERICK OUVRY, THE INTIMATE FRIEND OF CHARLES DICKENS, AND WITH HIS BOOKPLATE IN EACH VOLUME. Mr. Ouvry has inserted in the third volume two autograph letters from Dickens to him, both of which are interesting-one a long and extremely interesting letter (4 pp. 12mo, closely written), dated Springfield Mass., 1868 (while he was on his last lecturing tour in America) to "My dear Ouvry . . I begin to prepare for the evening at 6 and get back to my hotel pretty well knocked up at half-past 10. Add to this perpetual railway travelling in one of the severest winters known . . . Last Sunday evening I left the Falls of Niagara. As there was a great thaw and the melted snow was swelling all the rivers the whole country for three hundred miles was flooded. On the Tuesday (I had read on the Monday) the train gave in, as under utterly hopeless circumstances and stopped at a place called Utica the greater portion of which was under water, while the high and dry part could produce nothing to eat. Here some of the wretched passengers passed the night while others stormed the hotels. I was fortunate enough to get a bedroom and garnished it with an enormous jug of Gin Punch, over which I and Dolly [his manager] played a double dummy rubber. I was to read at Albany that night and all the tickets were sold A hundred men each armed with a long pole and pushing the ice away and arrived in time to read the Carol. I hope to turn £20,000 of clear profit after paying all charges, including Dolly's 10% on the receipts. ... On the 22nd of April your distinguished client will please God embark for Liverpool at New York aboard the Cunard S.S. Russia. . . Cunard was so considerate as to remember that it [his room] will be on the sunny side of the vessel." The other A. L. S., 1 p. 12mo, London, 1859, to "My dear Ouvry Your modesty is equal to your merit. You play whist as well as you narrate a story and (without flattery) you do the latter in a most admirable manner. I think your way of describing that makes courtship in middle life quite matchless," etc. ... 419. DICKINSON (JOHN). Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies. With a Historical Introduction by R. T. H. Halsey. Colored plate and portrait. Royal 8vo, half vellum, uncut N. Y. 1903 * Edition of 39 copies on Imperial Japan paper. 420. DIGBY (K. H.) The Broad Stone of Honour; or, The True Sense and Practice of Chivalry: Godefridus, Tancredus, Morus, Orlandus. Front. and vignette titles and vignettes. 5 vols. 8vo, half levant morocco extra, gilttooled backs, gilt tops, uncut. Lond.: B. Quaritch, 1876-77 * Thick paper copy. SCARCE. 421. DILKE (C. W.) Problems of Greater Britain. FIRST With maps. 2 vols. 8vo, half calf gilt, gilt tops. EDN. Lond. 1890 |