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[EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED]. [DICKENS, CHARLES]. FORSTER, JOHN. The Life of Charles Dickens. London: Chapman and Hall 1872-74. 3 vols. extended to 6, 8vo, bindings: 220 x 145mm. (8 5/8 x 5 11/16in.), green morocco gilt, covers with double gilt fillet borders, each upper cover with a circular recessed panel containing painted vellum armorial badges of Portsmouth, Chatham, Kent, London, Rochester and Westminster, spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments and gilt-panelled, board edges and turn-ins gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, by RIVIERE & SON, cloth slipcases, top and bottom edges rubbed by slipcases. FIRST EDITION, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED, specially printed title-pages in red and black, over 500 various engraved portraits and plates, a few colored and 58 EXAMPLES OF AUTOGRAPHS BY DICKENS, FORSTER AND THEIR CONTEMPORARIES BOUND APPROPRIATELY NEAR TO THEIR REFERENCES IN THE TEXT. Sold not subject to return.
Autographs: DICKENS. Autograph letter signed to John Mortimer, London 8 February 1844, one page, 8vo, a letter of thanks--FORSTER. Autograph manuscript signed of the dedication of The Life of Charles Dickens: "To the Daughters of Charles Dickens My Goddaughter Mary and Her Sister Catherine Macready [changed in the book to "Sister Kate"] This Book is dedicated by their Friend And their Father's friend and Executor John Forster", oblong, 136 x 154mm. (5 3/8 x 6 1/2in.) inlaid to a 4to sheet and loosely inserted--56 other autograph letters, notes, signature, etc. by the following: John Forster, Lord John Russell, William Ewart Gladstone, Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), William Harrison Ainsworth, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Bulwer Lytton, David Wilkie, Lord Denman, Daniel O'Connell, John Wilson, Dr. A. Alison, Daniel Maclise, Felicia Hemans, Thomas Campbell, William Hone, George Cattermole, W. Jerdan, Edwin Landseer, Doublas Jerrold, Gilbert Abbot à Beckett, Lord Melbourne, Duke of Wellington, Thomas Moore, Earl Lovelace, Horace Twiss, Tom Taylor, S.C. Hall, Mrs. S.C. Hall, William Cobbett, Mark Lemon, Peter Cunningham, Austen Henry Layard, Thomas Hood, William P. Frith, Albert Smith, Percy Fitzgerald, John Leed, Robert Southey, Lord Houghton, John Payne Collier, T. Milner Gibson, Benjamin Disraeli.
Provenance: David Borowitz, bookplate (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 12 April 1978, lot 234), the Forster manuscript dedication added 15 April 1938.
Autographs: DICKENS. Autograph letter signed to John Mortimer, London 8 February 1844, one page, 8vo, a letter of thanks--FORSTER. Autograph manuscript signed of the dedication of The Life of Charles Dickens: "To the Daughters of Charles Dickens My Goddaughter Mary and Her Sister Catherine Macready [changed in the book to "Sister Kate"] This Book is dedicated by their Friend And their Father's friend and Executor John Forster", oblong, 136 x 154mm. (5 3/8 x 6 1/2in.) inlaid to a 4to sheet and loosely inserted--56 other autograph letters, notes, signature, etc. by the following: John Forster, Lord John Russell, William Ewart Gladstone, Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), William Harrison Ainsworth, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Bulwer Lytton, David Wilkie, Lord Denman, Daniel O'Connell, John Wilson, Dr. A. Alison, Daniel Maclise, Felicia Hemans, Thomas Campbell, William Hone, George Cattermole, W. Jerdan, Edwin Landseer, Doublas Jerrold, Gilbert Abbot à Beckett, Lord Melbourne, Duke of Wellington, Thomas Moore, Earl Lovelace, Horace Twiss, Tom Taylor, S.C. Hall, Mrs. S.C. Hall, William Cobbett, Mark Lemon, Peter Cunningham, Austen Henry Layard, Thomas Hood, William P. Frith, Albert Smith, Percy Fitzgerald, John Leed, Robert Southey, Lord Houghton, John Payne Collier, T. Milner Gibson, Benjamin Disraeli.
Provenance: David Borowitz, bookplate (sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 12 April 1978, lot 234), the Forster manuscript dedication added 15 April 1938.