May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 242

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(DICKENS, CHARLES.) Kitton, Frederic G. Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil, Including Anecdotes and Reminiscences Collected from His Friends and Contemporaries. 3 volumes. Numerous engraved plates, illustrations, and extra-illustrated with an additional 70 plates, some with images on recto and verso, and including mounted India proofs. Folio, full crimson morocco, attractively gilt, by Riviere & Son, with lozenge centerpieces, gilt spines, and turn-ins, covers slightly dulled, minor soiling and rubbing, but still very attractive; scattered light foxing, sometimes to plates but mostly marginal; book labels of Johannis Neville Cross; original wrappers bound in. London: Sabin and Dexter, 1890-92

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first large paper, luxury edition of this comprehensive work on Dickens. The extra illustrations include portraits of Dickens, his wife, friends, and contemporaries.