?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
DICKENS, CHARLES. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz." 2 volumes. Engraved portrait after J. Raven, and 12 etched plates by George Cruikshank. 8vo, original teal cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine gilt, corners bumped, minor soiling; two bookplates and Dickens centenary stamp laid down to front pastedowns, catalogue slip tipped to front free endpaper of first vol., scattered foxing, ownership signature; full morocco folding case (clasp defective). London: Richard Bentley, 1838
first edition, extra-illustrated with the insertion of 11 additional plates (9 hand colored), 3 folding playbills, and 2 folding leaves from The Spectator. This copy has the correct page listing (p. 182) for the plate "A Startling Effect" in the list of "Embellishments" in Volume I; 36 pp. publisher's catalogue at end (pp. 1, 26, & 27 unnumbered). Carter's B binding. Eckel pp. 152; Carter, Binding Variants pp. 106-7.
