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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DICKENS, CHARLES. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz." 2 volumes. Engraved plates by George Cruikshank; extra-illustrated with the insertion of 47 additional plates, 3 Autograph Letters Signed by Grimaldi (1 torn along fold), 2 folding playbills, and a printed theater ticket. 8vo, contemporary full burgundy morocco panelled in gilt, spines gilt in compartments, corners and spines chipped with loss, rebacked retaining original spines laid down with some loss; joints renewed, inner dentelles (chipped), watered silk endpapers and doublures (front endpaper and following blank of both volumes detached), by Macdonald & Sons; Cornelia Otis Skinner bookplates. London: Richard Bentley, 1838
first edition, extra-illustrated copy. This copy has the correct page listing (p. 182) for the plate "A Startling Effect" in the list of "Embellishments" in Volume I. The penciled collation notes state that "Copy sold in New York at auction sale of Augustin Daly's Library June[?] 28 1900 for $260.00."
