First edition of Dickens’ favorite of his own novels, finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in a Cosway-style binding
Publisher and Year: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850
Edition: First edition in book form, published on 14 November after the 19-part monthly serialization concluded that month. The title vignette is dated 1850, which was removed in later states, and the text contains 38 of the 39 textual errors outlined by Smith (all except p. 132, which reads “screwed” rather than “screamed”), representing an early state of the text. The errata leaf bears six lines of corrections. Minor variations in the illustration plates are known, but with no established priority. (Smith I.9)
Condition and Description: Octavo, 8” x 6”, full crimson levant morocco hand-tooled in gilt, inset hand-painted watercolor portrait of a young Charles Dickens under glass, all edges gilt, doublures, silk-moiré endleaves, two sewn-in silk bookmarks, 624 pp. Forty illustrations by H.K. Brown (“Phiz”), including the frontispiece and vignette title. Bound by the Bayntun-Riviere bindery ca. 1960, with “Bayntun (Riviere). Bath. England.” stamped in gilt to the front doublure. Clean pages. The signed bookplate of E.P. Gangewere had once been attached to the front pastedown, but has since detached and is laid in; pastedown a little warped and with very slight discoloration in that location. A little offsetting of the bookplate signature onto the front free endpaper. Mild handling marks to the gilt edges. Housed in a red cloth folding box stamped in gilt.
Provenance: Earnest Paul Gangewere (1900–1973), former president of the Reading Railroad, purchased this book in the 1960s. The book passed across multiple generations of that family before it came to us.
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”
Inventory ID: 556 - 960 - 044
First edition of Dickens’ favorite of his own novels, finely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in a Cosway-style binding
Publisher and Year: London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850
Edition: First edition in book form, published on 14 November after the 19-part monthly serialization concluded that month. The title vignette is dated 1850, which was removed in later states, and the text contains 38 of the 39 textual errors outlined by Smith (all except p. 132, which reads “screwed” rather than “screamed”), representing an early state of the text. The errata leaf bears six lines of corrections. Minor variations in the illustration plates are known, but with no established priority. (Smith I.9)
Condition and Description: Octavo, 8” x 6”, full crimson levant morocco hand-tooled in gilt, inset hand-painted watercolor portrait of a young Charles Dickens under glass, all edges gilt, doublures, silk-moiré endleaves, two sewn-in silk bookmarks, 624 pp. Forty illustrations by H.K. Brown (“Phiz”), including the frontispiece and vignette title. Bound by the Bayntun-Riviere bindery ca. 1960, with “Bayntun (Riviere). Bath. England.” stamped in gilt to the front doublure. Clean pages. The signed bookplate of E.P. Gangewere had once been attached to the front pastedown, but has since detached and is laid in; pastedown a little warped and with very slight discoloration in that location. A little offsetting of the bookplate signature onto the front free endpaper. Mild handling marks to the gilt edges. Housed in a red cloth folding box stamped in gilt.
Provenance: Earnest Paul Gangewere (1900–1973), former president of the Reading Railroad, purchased this book in the 1960s. The book passed across multiple generations of that family before it came to us.
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”
Inventory ID: 556 - 960 - 044
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