£100 - £150
Dickens (Charles) & Browne (Hablot Knight, illustrator), The Personal History of David Copperfield, first edition thus, London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850, additional engraved title and 38 plates as called for, typically with some foxing &/or browning in places, one leaf repaired, some fore-edges chipped - yet not approaching letterpress, otherwise unexamined but a good copy, contemporary green quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards, marbled edges, 8vo, [Eckel pp.77-8; Smith I, 9]; Binding: Loeven (Justin, illustrator & designer), The Victoria Annual for 1844, one of the unspecified deluxe copies, London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longman's, 17 'illuminated' chromolithograph plates only, pasted on larger leaves as issued, finely bound in original publisher's green goatskin, lettered and blocked in gilt, yet rebacked preserving almost all of the original spine, some rubbing, all edges gilt, 4to, [Faxon, 1785]; Hall (Spencer T., A Native of Sherwood Forest), The Forester's Offering, first edition, London: Whitaker and Co., 1841, frontispiece, list of subscribers, marbled ffep discarded, endpaper with contemporary titled manuscript poem: Mrs. Woolley, Of the House of Willoughby, contemporary calf over marbled boards, 20th c morocco reback, lettered in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo; Davenport (Richard Alfred), Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity, second edition, London: Thomas Tegg, 1840, frontispiece, discarded ffep, contemporary tan quarter-calf over marbled boards, 8vo, (4)
Provenance: 2nd: Robin de Beaumont (1926-2023), bibliophile, President of The Private Libraries Association and benefactor to The British Museum; his armorial bookplate and pencilled bibliographic notes.
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