The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit -
Charles DIckens, Hablot Knight Browne Phiz (illustrator)
1844 - Chapman and Hall, London - First Edition
A handsomely bound first edition of Dickens’ satirical comedy of hypocrisy, selfishness, and greed, the picaresque story of young Martin Chuzzlewit who, together with the scheming architect Pecksniff, journeys to America to seek his fortune.
With 39 engraved plates and engraved title page vignette by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz").
‘Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well drest’. First edition in book form. With 14-line errata. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page in Smith's state two with sign showing ‘£100’ instead of ‘100£’, no priority according to Smith or Hatton & Cleaver)), preface dated ‘twenty-fifth June 1844’.
Reference: Walter Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, I, 7. Hatton and Cleaver, Periodical Works of Charles Dickens, 183-212.
Thick octavo (binding size 21.7x14.5cm), pp. xiv [2] 624 [2]. Finely bound by Frost and Co. of Bath, in full red niger morocco goatskin, twin gilt line bordered panels, spine decorated with single and twin gilt filet compartments, with gilt motifs and lettering, tooled edges, bands, and gilt ruled turn-ins, hand-marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Condition: Near fine, light scattered foxing to plates as commonly encountered, in fine binding. Ref: 112320 Price: HK$ 12,000
With 39 engraved plates and engraved title page vignette by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz").
‘Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well drest’. First edition in book form. With 14-line errata. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page in Smith's state two with sign showing ‘£100’ instead of ‘100£’, no priority according to Smith or Hatton & Cleaver)), preface dated ‘twenty-fifth June 1844’.
Reference: Walter Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, I, 7. Hatton and Cleaver, Periodical Works of Charles Dickens, 183-212.
Thick octavo (binding size 21.7x14.5cm), pp. xiv [2] 624 [2]. Finely bound by Frost and Co. of Bath, in full red niger morocco goatskin, twin gilt line bordered panels, spine decorated with single and twin gilt filet compartments, with gilt motifs and lettering, tooled edges, bands, and gilt ruled turn-ins, hand-marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Condition: Near fine, light scattered foxing to plates as commonly encountered, in fine binding. Ref: 112320 Price: HK$ 12,000