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Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844....
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Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844.8vo. Half-title; additional vignette title, frontispiece, and 38 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne. Publisher's blue cloth, covers panelled in blind with central oval cartouche, spine lettered in gilt and panelled in blind, yellow-coated endpapers, edges plain. Housed in a custom full morocco slipcase with cloth chemise.
THE VERY FINE MANNEY COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Errata leaf has 14 lines; vignette title page in second of the three simultaneous states (£100 on signpost, 6 studs along trunk). FINE COPIES IN CLOTH ARE SCARCE: "The cloth cases provided for [Dickens's] usually ample volumes were of poor quality, so that the collector may find Martin Chuzzlewit ... as difficult... to secure in fine original cloth [as] in the parts" (Carter, Taste & Technique in Book-Collecting, 1949, p. 162). Martin Chuzzlewit was not the commercial success that Dickens's other novels had been, leading to a bitter break with Chapman and Hall. After the bound volumes of Chuzzlewit came out in July 1844, Dickens would have no further dealings with his former publisher until 1859.
Condition: Extremities lightly rubbed; two tiny splits to cloth at foot of spine; very minor soiling; hinges skillfully repaired. Text block cracked (but holding) following list of plates at front; vignette title and a few plates foxed or offset, but text very clean throughout; plate facing page 88 is inserted on later guard; plate facing page 288 (and following text leaf) just becoming loose at bottom. Overall, A REMARKABLY FINE AND BRIGHT COPY.
References: Eckel 71; Gimbel/Podeschi A72; Sadleir 692; Smith 1:7; Wolff 1803.
Provenance: Mr. Hooke (pencil note on verso of title: "26/ cloth / Mr. Hooke"); Richard Manney (bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's New York, 11 October 1991, lot 89). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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