DICKENS CHARLES Master Humprey’s Clock

Sale 2559 - Lot 126

Price Realized: $ 1,062

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

DICKENS, CHARLES. Master Humprey's Clock. 20 monthly parts. Illustrated by G. Cattermole and H.K. Browne. Large 8vo, original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers, backstrips chipped with paper repairs, minor edge wear, ownership signatures to a few parts; housed in 1/2 morocco pull-off case. London: Chapman and Hall, April 1840-November 1841

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First edition in monthly parts, the second of four original forms of publication of Master Humphrey's Clock. First appearing in 88 weekly parts, this was followed by the 20 monthly parts, then a three-volume edition ("triple-decker"), and finally separately bound volumes of The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Lacks the scarce "Tyas's Popular Illustrated Publications" ad in part 1, and lacking one or more ads in parts 19/20. Part 11 contains a front cover variant not noted in H&C in that the front wrapper has "Barbaby Rudge" below "Illustrations by G. Cattermole and H.K. Browne." Hatton and Cleaver, pp. 163-82.