Dickens, Charles

i) Dickens, Charles. Master Humphrey's Clock. With illustrations by George Cattermole & Hablot Browne, Chapman & Hall, 1840-41, 3 volumes, first edition, frontispieces, illustrations, original brown cloth, boards blocked in blind with gilt clock centrepieces, gilt spines, variant marbled endpapers, signature of Gertrude E. Atkinson dated 1850 in volume 1 and initials in volumes 2 and 3, bookplates of G. Maitland Gordon, preserved in cloth slipcase; ii) The Life of Our Lord. Written expressly for his children. Associated Newspapers Ltd, 1934, first edition, frontispiece portrait, illustrations, original maroon cloth, dust-jacket, slipcase; iii) Eckel, John C. The First Editions of the Writing of Charles Dickens. Their points and values. A bibliography, revised & enlarged. New York: Maurice Inman, Inc. (London: Maggs Bros.), 1932, original cloth, dust-jacket, in slipcase; iv) Smith, Walter E.  Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth. Los Angeles: Heritage Bookshop, 1982-83, 2 volumes, green cloth, dust-jackets; v) Stone, Harry. Dickens' Working Notes for His Novels; edited with an introduction and notes...Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987, red cloth, dust-jacket; 4to and 8vo (8)

[Master Humphrey's Clock:] Smith I:6 (primary binding)

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