Thomas Archer: 'Charles Dickens. A gossip about his life, wo...

Hammer

£30

Thomas Archer: 'Charles Dickens. A gossip about his life, works, and characters, with eighteen full-page character sketches (reproduced in photogravure) by Frederick Barnard and other illustrations by well-known artists', London, Cassell & Co, [1894], 18 full page plates + numerous ills. in text as called for, 6 parts bound in 1, [2],92pp, folio, contemporary half morocco gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip, top edge gilt; Charles Dickens: 'Bleak House', L, Bradbury & Evans, 1853, 1st edition, 2 volumes, a/f, volume II with title page supplied in facsimile, handsomely rebound quarter calf gilt over marbled paper covered boards; H. Snowden & Catharine W.B. Ward: 'The Real Dickens Land', 1904, ills. from photos throughout, 4to, orig pictorial cloth gilt; W.M. Thackeray, 2 titles: 'The Newcomes', L, Bradbury & Evans, 1854-55, 1st edition, 2 volumes, added engraved title pages, engraved frontises and numerous engraved plates by Richard Doyle, contemporary half calf gilt, 'The Orphan of Pimlico', L, Smith Elder, 1876, original paper covered boards, later rebacked calf gilt; plus 'A Journal Kept by Richard Doyle in the Year 1840', L, Smith Elder, 1885, 4to, recased retaining orig. pictorial cloth gilt (8)