[Dickens, Charles]-Browne, Edgar

Phiz and Dickens as they Appeared to Edgar Browne. With Original Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne [“Phiz”]. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1913

One volume extended to 2, 4to (11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in.; 298 x 222 mm). Half-title, frontispiece portrait photo of H.K. Browne, title printed in red and black, 37 plates (10 in color, lacking the autograph facsimile facing page 88), extra-illustrated with calligraphic title, notarized statement leaf, and 166 etching, autograph letters, and other illustrations; some light spotting to fore-margin of some plates. Contemporary blue levant morocco, gilt-ruled in a panel design with a frame of inlaid red morocco, double-fillet border, and foliate stamps at four corners, spine gilt, red morocco doublures, cream watered-silk endleaves, by Macdonald NV; joints worn, a few scuffmarks, some wear at extremities.

William Hartwin Woodin (bookplate)

One volume extended to 2, 4to (11 ¾ x 8 ¾ in.; 298 x 222 mm). Half-title, frontispiece portrait photo of H.K. Browne, title printed in red and black, 37 plates (10 in color, lacking the autograph facsimile facing page 88), extra-illustrated with calligraphic title, notarized statement leaf, and 166 etched illustrations, autograph letters, and other illustrations; some light spotting to fore-margin of some plates. Contemporary blue levant morocco, gilt-ruled in a panel design with a frame of inlaid red morocco, double-fillet border, and foliate stamps at four corners, spine gilt, red morocco doublures, cream watered-silk endleaves, by Macdonald NV; joints worn, a few scuffmarks, some wear at extremities.
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Number 153 of 175 copies, signed by the author. A fine collection of material including 2 autograph letters signed by Dickens, one by Whistler, one by Browne, one by Cruikshank, one by Leech, and one each by Samuel Lover, Thomas Hood, W.H. Ainsworth, Leigh Hunt, John Ruskin, and a variety of English actors. Many refer to writing, illustrating or publishing.

A complete inventory of the extra-illustrations is available on request.