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Auction archive: Lot number 105

DICKENS, AUTOGRAPH DRAFT MANUSCRIPT OF "MRS GAMP WITH THE STROLLING PLAYERS", 1847

Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$51,435 - US$77,152
Price realised:
£56,250
ca. US$72,330
Auction archive: Lot number 105

DICKENS, AUTOGRAPH DRAFT MANUSCRIPT OF "MRS GAMP WITH THE STROLLING PLAYERS", 1847

Estimate
£40,000 - £60,000
ca. US$51,435 - US$77,152
Price realised:
£56,250
ca. US$72,330
Beschreibung:

Dickens, Charles AUTOGRAPH DRAFT MANUSCRIPT OF "MRS GAMP WITH THE STROLLING PLAYERS" here entitled "Mrs Gamp's Account of her connexion with this affair", extensively revised with numerous deletions and interlinear additions, dark brown ink, text on rectos only, with autograph pagination (the final page numbered 3 1/2), 139 lines on 4 pages, unwatermarked light blue paper, quarto (225 x 185mm), c.July 1847, each leaf edge mounted [bound with:] Mrs Gamp with the Strolling Players: an unfinished sketch by Charles Dickens New York: privately printed by the Gillis Press for Mr Lowell M. Palmer, 1899, one of 85 copies, but said to be a unique copy in quarto on japan paper, half title, with frontispiece portrait and engraved plate by F.W. Pailthorpe, in red morocco with spine gilt in compartments and inside dentelles by Bradstreet's, in a red morocco backed fold-over box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for E. Joseph, with, loosely inserted in the box, a letter by R.H. Dodd to Lowell Palmer sending him this book, 15 February 1900

Auction archive: Lot number 105
Beschreibung:

Dickens, Charles AUTOGRAPH DRAFT MANUSCRIPT OF "MRS GAMP WITH THE STROLLING PLAYERS" here entitled "Mrs Gamp's Account of her connexion with this affair", extensively revised with numerous deletions and interlinear additions, dark brown ink, text on rectos only, with autograph pagination (the final page numbered 3 1/2), 139 lines on 4 pages, unwatermarked light blue paper, quarto (225 x 185mm), c.July 1847, each leaf edge mounted [bound with:] Mrs Gamp with the Strolling Players: an unfinished sketch by Charles Dickens New York: privately printed by the Gillis Press for Mr Lowell M. Palmer, 1899, one of 85 copies, but said to be a unique copy in quarto on japan paper, half title, with frontispiece portrait and engraved plate by F.W. Pailthorpe, in red morocco with spine gilt in compartments and inside dentelles by Bradstreet's, in a red morocco backed fold-over box by Sangorski & Sutcliffe for E. Joseph, with, loosely inserted in the box, a letter by R.H. Dodd to Lowell Palmer sending him this book, 15 February 1900

Auction archive: Lot number 105
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