DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall 1837. 8vo, contemporary dark green hard-grained morocco gilt, g.e., marbled endpapers, some slight wear, front inner hinge broken (but easily repairable), half-title not preserved. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, 43 etched plates by Robert Seymour Robert William Buss and Hablot K. Browne ( most plates with browning or foxing ), PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS WIFE'S GRANDFATHER, inscribed by the author in brown ink at top of the first page of text: "George Thomson Esq From his very faithfully Charles Dickens" ( the "G" in "George" just touched by the binder ). George Thomson (1757-1851) was Dickens' wife Catherine's maternal grandfather (her mother Georgina Hogarth being George Thomson's daughter). Thomson had been a friend of Robert Burns and was a collector and publisher of Scottish music (see DNB entry). In a letter dated 27 February 1836 (shortly before his marriage to Catherine on 2 April 1836), Dickens writes to Thomson, presenting him with a copy of his first book, Sketches by "Boz" : "I feel a degree of pleasure I cannot describe, in begging your acceptance, of the accompanying Volumes; -- not because it gratified an Author's vanity, but because it affords me an opportunity of paying a very slight tribute of remembrance and respect, to such near Relatives of my dear Catherine as yourself, and Mrs. Thomson...I will only add, that I most sincerely and earnestly hope it may afford you half the pleasure to receive my little productions, which I promise myself, from forwarding them to you -- I trust for many, many, years to come..." (Lola L. Szladits, Charles Dickens 1812-1870. An Anthology , New York: The New York Public Library...1970, p. 18, the letter and the presentation copy of Sketches by "Boz" being in the Berg Collection). This copy of Pickwick Papers is another one of Dickens's "little productions" presented to his wife's grandfather. Eckel, p. 56; Smith 3. Provenance : A Edward Newton, bookplate (sale, Parke-Bernet, 18 April 1941, lot 497).
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall 1837. 8vo, contemporary dark green hard-grained morocco gilt, g.e., marbled endpapers, some slight wear, front inner hinge broken (but easily repairable), half-title not preserved. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, 43 etched plates by Robert Seymour Robert William Buss and Hablot K. Browne ( most plates with browning or foxing ), PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS WIFE'S GRANDFATHER, inscribed by the author in brown ink at top of the first page of text: "George Thomson Esq From his very faithfully Charles Dickens" ( the "G" in "George" just touched by the binder ). George Thomson (1757-1851) was Dickens' wife Catherine's maternal grandfather (her mother Georgina Hogarth being George Thomson's daughter). Thomson had been a friend of Robert Burns and was a collector and publisher of Scottish music (see DNB entry). In a letter dated 27 February 1836 (shortly before his marriage to Catherine on 2 April 1836), Dickens writes to Thomson, presenting him with a copy of his first book, Sketches by "Boz" : "I feel a degree of pleasure I cannot describe, in begging your acceptance, of the accompanying Volumes; -- not because it gratified an Author's vanity, but because it affords me an opportunity of paying a very slight tribute of remembrance and respect, to such near Relatives of my dear Catherine as yourself, and Mrs. Thomson...I will only add, that I most sincerely and earnestly hope it may afford you half the pleasure to receive my little productions, which I promise myself, from forwarding them to you -- I trust for many, many, years to come..." (Lola L. Szladits, Charles Dickens 1812-1870. An Anthology , New York: The New York Public Library...1970, p. 18, the letter and the presentation copy of Sketches by "Boz" being in the Berg Collection). This copy of Pickwick Papers is another one of Dickens's "little productions" presented to his wife's grandfather. Eckel, p. 56; Smith 3. Provenance : A Edward Newton, bookplate (sale, Parke-Bernet, 18 April 1941, lot 497).
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