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Zeitlin (I), GESSAR KHAN, A LEGEND OF TIBET, illustrated by Theodore Nadejen, first edition, DJ, orange cloth boards with embossed title and decoration, illustrated end papers, George H. Doran Company, New York 1927

Onwhyn (T), 12 ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE PICKWICK CLUB, first edition, blue folded paper wrapper, Albert Jackson "Advertisement" folded paper wrapper, loose title page and twelve loose plates, Albert Jackson, London 1894, with Onwhyn (T), SKETCHES OF MALVERN, cream card boards, embossed lace effect title panel, H. Cross, Post Office, Malvern, Onwhyn (T), VIEWS OF BATH, Rock & Co, London, and Onwhyn (T), VIEWS OF BOULOGNE, Rock & Co, London (4)

Onwhyn (T), 12 ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE PICKWICK CLUB, first edition, blue folded paper wrapper, Albert Jackson "Advertisement" folded paper wrapper, loose title page and twelve loose plates, Albert Jackson, London 1894, with Onwhyn (T), MR PERRY WINKS SUBMARINE ADVENTURES - A DREAM AT SEA, illustrated paper boards, eight hand coloured engraved illustrations throughout, Kershaw & Son, London circa 1859, a further set of loose pages from the same publication, and Onwhyn (T), CUPID AND GRINOLINE, illustrated red card boards, blue cloth spine, ten engraved plates, concertina bound, Rock, Brothers & Payne, London (4)

CHURCHILL (WINSTON S.)Painting as a Pastime, FIRST EDITION, third impression, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'For Sister Bryant from Winston S. Churchill, May 1951' on the front free endpaper, frontispiece, and 18 colour plates, contemporary red crushed morocco gilt by Bumpus, g.e., some fading to spine [Cohen A242.1.c; Woods A15], 8vo, Odhams, [1949]; together with an autograph letter signed by Clementine Churchill to Sister Bryant, 2 Christmas cards (one signed by Clementine) using images of Winston's paintings, and a facsimile thankyou card addressed to the patients and nurses of St. George's Hospital (small group)Footnotes:The recipient of this inscribed copy was Sister Anne Bryant, who had looked after Clementine Churchill's sister Nellie when she was a patient at St. George's Hospital, London. In the autograph letter (dated 11 May 1951) that accompanies the lot Clementine writes to Sister Bryant thanking her for 'all you have done for my sister, and for your kindness to me personally when I have been to see her. My husband sends you this little book which he hopes will amuse you. He has inscribed it for you'. Three years later, in 1954, Nellie was diagnosed with inoperable cancer, and was back at St. George's 'having massive doses of ray treatment... Clementine had her driven down to Chartwell at the weekends and cherished her tenderly... [and] was constantly at either at Chequers or Chartwell whenever she was strong enough... [making] a brave appearance at Winston's [eightieth] birthday party in November...' (Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill, 1979).Provenance: Family of Sister Bryant; sold by her great niece at Bonhams, 19 October 2004, lot 20.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

FIELDING (HENRY)The History of Tom Jones. A Foundling, 6 vol. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with errata leaf in volume 1, errata uncorrected in the text, and all the relevant cancels, small trace of worming in upper blank margin of the opening few leaves of volume 1, some light spotting but generally clean, contemporary calf, spines tooled in gilt with gilt morocco lettering labels, minor restoration to joints and spine ends, headband of volume 3 chipped, housed together in a morocco-lipped slipcase [Grolier, English 48; Rothschild 850], 8vo, A. Millar, 1749Footnotes:First edition, first issue of Fielding's 'masterpiece.... [the] public impatience to read it grew to such a pitch that the entire first edition of 2000 copies was bought up before the announced date of publication, 10 February 1749' (ODNB).Provenance: Sir George Augustus William Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Baronet (1751-1804), bookplate, with shelf mark in ink; Michael Sharpe, bookplate; Bonhams New York, 18 September 2016, lot 1040.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOLDSMITH (OLIVER)The Deserted Village, a Poem, FIRST EDITION, half-title, engraved vignette by Isaac Taylor on the title, full morocco gilt by Stikeman & Co., sides elaborately tooled with wide borders, gilt dentelles, g.e., head of spine bumped and slightly rubbed [Hayward 184; Rothschild 1032; Sterling 405], 4to (700 x 210mm.), W. Griffin, 1770Footnotes:First edition of Goldsmith's famous poem, with catchword on page 9 misprinted with 'Careless' for 'Thus'. Dedicated to Sir Joshua Reynolds, with the last four lines written by Samuel Johnson, The Deserted Poem found immediate popularity, with six further editions appearing in the year of publication, and for which 'nearly all the first reviews were favourable', the early readers admiring 'the nostalgic descriptions of a vanished village life' (ODNB).Provenance: Henry William Poor (1844-1915, American banker and bibliophile), red leather gilt armorial bookplate; Templeton Crocker (1884-1948, president of the California Historical Society), bookplate; Christie's South Kensington, 23 November 2009, lot 215.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GOULD (JOHN)The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., FIRST EDITION, 367 hand-coloured lithographed plates after Gould, Joseph Wolf, H.C. Richter and W. Hart, mostly by Richter and Hart, most heightened with gum arabic, near contemporary full green morocco gilt, richly tooled on sides and spines, lettered 'London 1873' in lower compartment, g.e., marbled edges, a few headbands slightly chipped or neatened but otherwise fine [Fine Bird Books, p.78; Nissen IVB 372; Sauer 23; Wood, p.365; Zimmer, p.261], folio (550 x 370mm.), Taylor and Francis, by the Author, [1862-]1873Footnotes:A FINELY BOUND COPY OF 'THE MOST SUMPTUOUS AND COSTLY OF BRITISH BIRD BOOKS' (Mullens and Swann).In the preface John Gould noted that in this work, which took twelve years to complete, 'I returned to my old love, employing the best artists to produce the plates for which 'every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand'. Writing of the Golden Eagle he notes 'I trust that it will for the future, rather be the object of protection than, as is present, of foolish destruction'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

GRAY (THOMAS)An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard, second edition, title between wide woodcut rules decorated with emblems of mourning and burial, upper rule repeated at head of poem, light toning and spotting, modern half calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered on spine, 4to (250 x 195mm.), R. Dodsley, 1751Footnotes:The second edition is almost identical to that of the first, printed in the same year, including the misprint 'they they' in line 27. The only correction is on line 96, where 'kindred' replaces 'hidden'.Provenance: Bonhams, 19 October 2004, lot 202.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HALLAM (ARTHUR HENRY)Remains in Verse and Prose, FIRST EDITION, full red morocco gilt by M. Lortic (with gilt stamp on dentelle), the covers with a wide 'Greek-key' border, similar design in 6 compartments within raised bands on spine, t.e.g., joints slightly rubbed, slipcase, 8vo, Printed by W. Nicol, 1834Footnotes:Provenance: Alfred Trapnell (1838-1917), bookplate, with small circular gilt morocco numeral number ('1026').This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[HARDY (THOMAS)]Desperate Remedies. A Novel, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK, [ONE OF 500 COPIES], half-titles, publisher's red sandy-grained cloth, covers with three-rule border surrounding scroll frame, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, new endpapers, soiled (stain on lower cover of volume 2), repairs at extremities at spine ends and joints, signs of old circulating library labels on upper covers, each volume in morocco-backed solander box (worn) [Purdy, pp.3-5], 8vo, Tinsley Brothers, 1871Footnotes:HARDY'S FIRST NOVEL IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. Published anonymously in a run of 500 copies, and at the author's expense (he paid £75 to the publisher, of which he only recuperated £59.12s.7d.), it was met with poor reviews, that in the Spectator 'so savage that Hardy never forgot his bitterness and discouragement on first reading it' (Purdy).Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 December 2011, lot 54.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[HARDY (THOMAS)]Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, [ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 500 COPIES], half-titles, light spotting, publisher's green sand-grain cloth, bevelled edges, covers with Oxford frame in black, spines lettered in gilt, preserved in cloth chemise together in blue morocco-backed slipcase [Purdy, pp.6-8; Sadleir 1117], 8vo, Tinsley Brothers, 1872Footnotes:Bright copy in original cloth of Hardy's second novel, published anonymously in an edition of approximately 500 copies.Provenance: John Quinn (1870-1924, American patron and collector), bookplate; Sotheby's, 10 July 2012, lot 70.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HARDY (THOMAS)A Pair of Blue Eyes. A Novel, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, [ONE OF APPROXIMATELY 500 COPIES], half-titles, without the publisher's catalogue (often missing, Purdy suggesting 'that the binder's supply was soon exhausted'), occasional single spot or light thumbing marks, publisher's green diagonal fine ribbed cloth, blocked in black with Oxford frame on covers, spines tooled in gilt, re-cased with new endpapers, soiling, spine extremities worn with a a few short tears (some repaired), each in morocco-backed solander box (worn) [Purdy, pp.8-13; Sadleir 1112; Wolff 2986], 8vo, Tinsley Brother, 1873Footnotes:The third of Hardy's novels, but the first to bear his name on the title-page, in the original primary binding of green cloth. Purdy suggests the print run was approximately 500 copies and that 'the critical reception was favourable'.Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 December 2011, lot 55.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[HARDY (THOMAS)]Far From the Madding Crowd, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, [ONE OF 1000 COPIES], 12 wood-engraved plates by Helen Paterson (later Allingham), chocolate endpapers, occasional light spotting, ink marks on p.41 of volume 1, publisher's green diagonal fine-ribbed cloth gilt, vignettes stamped in black on upper covers, slight wear, with abrasion at lower spine of volume 1, hinge neatly strengthened with paper to match endpapers, preserved in box [Purdy, pp. 13-20; Sadleir, p.105], 8vo, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1874Footnotes:First edition of the first of Hardy's major novels. Far from the Madding Crowd was serialised in the The Cornhill Magazine between January and December 1874, and first published in book form as here in November 1874 priced 21s. in a print run of 1000 copies.Provenance: Paul Lemperly, bookplate; Brian Fenwick-Smith, bookplate; Sotheby's, 10 July 2012, lot 71.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CLEMENS (SAMUEL LANGHORNE) 'MARK TWAIN'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, with the final blank, lithographed frontispiece by E.W. Kemble, photographic portrait of the bust of Twain by Karl Gerhardt, numerous illustrations in the text, with final blank, occasional light spotting or soiling (mostly in the margins), publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gold and black, slightly rubbed at extremities, preserved in morocco-backed solander box by Asprey [BAL 3415], 4to, New York, Charles J. Webster, and Co., 1885Footnotes:FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF ONE OF THE CELEBRATED WORKS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. A very good copy in the original cloth, and an early issue with the following points: first state of the frontispiece; 'was' for 'saw' on page 57; the list of illustrations showing 'him and another Man' as appearing on page 88; the title a cancel with the copyright 1884; page 283 a cancel with the final blank.Provenance: Mrs O.B. Abbott, Oriskany Falls, New York, light pencil inscription on the front free endpaper; Christie's, 13 June 2012, lot 171.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HARDY (THOMAS)The Return of the Native, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, [ONE OF 1000 COPIES], half-titles, frontispiece map in volume 1, additional copy of the map tipped-in between pp.190-191 in volume 2, publisher's advertisement at the end of volume 2, occasional light spotting, publisher's brown cloth, blocked in black on upper cover, double-rule border in blind on lower covers, lettered in gilt on spines, rubbed, volume 1 with short tear to lower joint and lower hinge cracking, preserved in modern morocco-backed solander box [Purdy, pp.24-27; Sadleir 1113], 8vo, Smith, Elder, 1878Footnotes:FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, without the single quotation mark after 'A Pair of Blue Eyes' on the title-page of first volume, and in the primary binding. The Return of the Native was first printed serially in Belgravia from January to December 1878. Hardy then altered the titles of several chapters, and made numerous deletions and additions before it was published in book form in an edition of 1,000 copies.Provenance: T. Fuller-Riggs, bookplate; Christie's New York, 4 December 2009, lot 145.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HARDY (THOMAS)Two on a Tower. A Romance, FIRST EDITION, first impression of volumes 1 and 2, second impression of volume 3, half-titles, re-cased in publisher's dark green fine ribbed cloth, spines lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers, spines ends and joints of volume 1 neatly repaired, preserved together in modern green morocco-backed solander box [Purdy, pp.41-47; Sadleir 1116; Wolff 2996], 8vo, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882Footnotes:This set has the first impression of the first two volumes, with the third volume a second impression, Purdy noting that when 'the publishers issued mixed sets... to clear their stock, a slight divergence of alignment in the blocking of the spines is apparent'.Provenance: Sotheby's, 10 December 2013, lot 84.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HARDY (THOMAS)The Mayor of Casterbridge. The Life and Death of a Man of Character, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, [ONE OF 750 COPIES], half-title in volume 1 (as called for), single advertisement leaf at end of each volume, occasional light spotting, publisher's smooth dark blue cloth blocked in black with a floral design, spines lettered in gilt, grey floral endpapers, slightly rubbed at spine extremities but otherwise a fresh copy, preserved in morocco-backed solander box [Purdy, pp.50-54], 8vo, Smith, Elder, & Co., 1886Footnotes:The Mayor of Casterbridge was published in weekly instalments in the Graphic from 2 January to 15 May 1886, before being published in book form on 10 May 1886 in a print run of 750 copies, only 650 of which were bound. Purdy records two leaves of advertisements at the end of volume 2, but also notes other copies with no advertisements at all.Provenance: Harris, neat early ownership inscription in each volume.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HARDY (THOMAS)The Woodlanders, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, advertisement leaf in volume 1, occasional single spot or mark, red half morocco gilt by Root & Son, joints rubbed, blue morocco-backed solander box [Purdy, pp.54-57], 8vo, Macmillan, 1887Footnotes:Thomas Hardy 'sometimes singled out [The Woodlanders] as the best and his own favourite of his novels' (Purdy).Provenance: Purchased from Peter Kaye, October 1997.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HARDY (THOMAS)Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, half-titles, with final blank in volume 2, and preliminary blank and final blank in volume 3, AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION FROM THE NOVEL SIGNED AND DATED BY HARDY loosely inserted, publisher's smooth tan cloth lettered in gilt on spines, gilt-blocked design of honeysuckle blossoms on upper covers, new front endpapers to volume 1, volumes 2 and 3 re-cased with new endpapers at end of volume 3 and hinges strengthened, some soiling and rubbing, each volume in cloth chemise, housed together in morocco-backed slipcase [Purdy, pp.67-78; Sadleir 1114; Wolff 2993], 8vo, James Osgood, MacIlvaine & Co., 1891Footnotes:First edition of Hardy's 'deeply imagined portrayal of a heroine moving through hopes and betrayals, surmounted difficulties and deceptive idylls, to a tragic conclusion whose 'justice' the author's passionate advocacy profoundly challenges. Tess is also the most eloquently written of the novels, and the one in which the natural world and the topography itself—the landscapes Tess so doggedly traverses—are most continuously and richly represented' (ODNB).Loosely inserted is an autograph quotation from volume 1, chapter 3 of Tess, describing the Durbeyville children ('... Helpless creatures who have never been asked if they wished for life on any terms, much less if they wished for it on... hard conditions') headed 'Little Children', signed and dated by Thomas Hardy, 8 October 1892. This was the day on which the first part of his The Pursuit of the Well-Beloved appeared in The Illustrated London News.Provenance: Jessie Stillman Taylor, bookplate in volume 2; Sotheby's, 7 December 2006, lot 76.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HARDY (THOMAS)Tess of the D'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, light toning to half-titles, publisher's smooth tan cloth lettered in gilt on spines, with gilt-blocked design of honeysuckle blossoms by Charles Ricketts on upper covers, spine ends slightly rubbed, one small damp spot on upper cover of volume 3 but generally a bright set, preserved in morocco-backed solander box (rubbed, stained at lower spine) [Purdy, pp.67-78; Sadleir 1114; Wolff 2993], 8vo, James Osgood, MacIlvaine & Co., 1891Footnotes:A fine copy of the first edition of Thomas Hardy's most enduringly popular novel Tess, with an interesting assocation inscription.Provenance: Charles Ricketts, with gift inscription ('To Rylis/C.S. Ricketts') to Edith Hacon on the front free endpaper. Edith, always known as Amaryllis or 'Ryllis' was an artist's model prior to becoming the wife of William Llewellyn Hacon (1860-1910) who, together with Ricketts founded the Vale Press. Ricketts designed the distinctive binding of Tess, '...different from almost all previously published books by Thomas Hardy, or, for that matter, by any other author. These books were obviously designed by someone with a genius for artistic lay-out, by someone with taste and originality' (Carl J. Weber, Charles Ricketts and His Books, in Colby Library Quarterly, Series III, no. 4, 1951); Sotheby's, 11 July 2017, lot 116.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HEMINGWAY (ERNEST)The Old Man and the Sea, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'A' and Scribner's seal on the copyright page, publisher's pale blue cloth with silver lettering on spine and blind-stamped signature on the upper cover, later issue pictorial dust-jacket (the author photo not blue tinted, but without mention of Nobel Prize, price clipped, slightly frayed at edges) [Hannerman a24a], 8vo, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952Footnotes:Provenance: Sotheby's, 8 July 2004, lot 169.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CONRAD (JOSEPH)Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'generosity' misprinted on p.110, half-title, title printed in red and black, occasional light spotting, publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered on spine, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, light staining on upper cover, old morocco-backed solander box (worn, upper cover detached) [Wise 1; Cagle A1a(1)], 8vo, T. Fisher Unwin, 1895Footnotes:First edition, first impression of the author's first book. 'Reviews were numerous, often lengthy; and, though they were mixed, praise predominated. The Spectator, noting the atmospheric power of this work set in Borneo, prophesied that Conrad might become 'the Kipling of the Malay Archipelago' (19 Oct. 1895)' (ODNB).Provenance: Joseph Halle Schaffner (1897–1972), bookplate on box; Sotheby's, 23 March 2005.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

HUXLEY (ALDOUS)Brave New World. A Novel, FIRST EDITION, half-title, light spotting to text block edges, a a few other single spots, publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine (slightly faded and light rubbing at ends), dust-jacket uncut priced '7s.6d Net' (light spotting to lower cover and spine, spine with some loss at head touching 'B' and 'E' of title, and tear at lower section resulting in small losses, short tears to upper margin of upper cover, small losses at corners), preserved in cloth solander box, 8vo, Chatto & Windus, 1932Footnotes:First edition of Brave New World, 'an international best-seller... the novel, the first about human cloning, is a dystopia set five centuries in the future, when overpopulation has led to biogenetic engineering. Through computerized genetic selection, social engineers create a population happy with its lot. All the earth's children are born in hatcheries, and Soma, a get-happy pill, irons out most problems. Huxley wrote to George Orwell suggesting that Nineteen Eighty Four's vision of governmental autocracy was less likely than Brave New World's society amusing itself to death' (ODNB).Provenance: Sotheby's, 13 December 2001, lot 324.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

LAWRENCE (D.H.)Lady Chatterley's Lover, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 972 OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, spotting, publisher's boards, rebacked preserving original spine and lettering label, extremities of spine and corners refurbished, new endpapers [Roberts A42a], 8vo, Florence, Privately Printed, 1928Footnotes:Having been rejected for publication by several English publishers, Lawrence commissioned Lady Chatterley's Lover to be printed by the Tipografia Giuntina in Florence in an edition of 1000 copies, which he sold at £2 each.Provenance: Bonhams, 19 October 2004, lot 252.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MANDELA (NELSON)Long Walk to Freedom. The Autobiography, FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, this copy number '424', photographic plates, publisher's leather-backed cloth, slipcase, large 8vo, Little, Brown, 1994Footnotes:Provenance: Bonhams, 16 September 2003, lot 563.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MELVILLE (HERMAN)Moby-Dick; or, the Whale, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 6-pages of publisher's advertisements at end, some browning and spotting, publisher's first binding of blue-green cloth with publisher's circular blindstamp device on covers, orange-coated papers, spine lettered in gilt, split at upper section of upper hinge, corners and spine extremities rubbed, preserved in blue morocco-backed solander box [BAL 13664; Grolier, American 60], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, and London, Richard Bentley, 1851Footnotes:'CALL ME ISHMAEL' - An attractive copy of the first American edition, in the first binding, of Melville's classic whaling novel. This included some thirty-five passages and an epilogue which were not present in the English edition that had preceded it by a month.Provenance: D. Rosell Jr., bookplate inside upper cover; Sotheby's, 12 December 2012, lot 92.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MILTON (JOHN)Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in IV Books. To Which is Added Samson Agonistes, FIRST EDITION, with the statement of omissions on P3v, and errata on P4, without the imprimatur leaf, gutter margin of title-page neatly repaired just touching 'R' of word 'Regain'd', poor impression on E3v, small tear repaired touching a couple of letters on M1v, early calf, rebacked in calf gilt, rubbed, preserved in morocco-backed solander box [ESTC R299; Hayward 73; Wither to Prior 613], 8vo, Printed by J.M. for John Starkey, 1671Footnotes:Provenance: John Craik, 1827, pencil inscription; R.E. Ford, Bedford, 1953, inscription inside upper cover; Sotheby's, 7 July 2005, lot 63.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

MITCHELL (MARGARET)Gone With the Wind, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'To Elizabeth S. Harsh from Margaret Mitchell' on the front free endpaper, light paper toning, a few spots, newspaper (15 October 1936) pasted inside upper cover, publisher's grey cloth lettered in blue, worn and spotted, dust-jacket (long tears along flap folds, front flap clipped at upper corner (not affecting price '$3.00' in lower corner), a few small chips at margins and one small hole on spine, preserved in grey morocco-backed solander box, 8vo, New York, Macmillan, 1936Footnotes:INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF MITCHELL'S PULITZER PRIZE WINNING NOVEL, later immortalised in the Oscar winning film starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havilland.Provenance: Elizabeth S. Harsh, gift inscription from Margaret Mitchell; Christie's, 13 June 2012, lot 206.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

STERNE (LAURENCE)The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, 7 vol., FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR as usual on B1 of volumes 5, 7, and 9, volume 7 in first state with errata on verso of title, half-titles as called for, editorial correction in ink to one word on B2 of volume 3, marbled leaf in volume 3, engraved plate after William Hogarth in volume 4, without blank A1 in volume 5, some leaves lightly washed, small piece of leather adhered to p.71 of volume 3 obscuring a few letters, short tear repaired to half-title of volume 9, plate shaved touching artist names in lower margin, marbled endpapers, full polished calf gilt, by W. Pratt, spine in six compartments with red and green morocco lettering labels, g.e. [Rothschild 1970], 8vo, [York, Anne Ward], and R. and J. Dodsley[-T. Beckett and P.A. Dehout], 1760-1767Footnotes:A handsome copy of Sterne's celebrated 'cock and bull story', the first two volumes of which had been printed in York in 'a lean edition ... at my own expense, merely to feel the pulse of the world' as Sterne wrote to the London publisher Dodsley who, on seeing the immediate success and positive reception of the work, agreed 'in early March 1760 to pay Sterne £250 for the copyright in order to publish a second edition, as well as £380 for the next instalment' (ODNB).Provenance: J. Mulso, signature on the title-page of volumes 3-5, 7 and 9, and E.C. Weymouth, ink stamp on verso of titles in volumes 1 and 2; Sotheby's, 15 December 2011, lot 33.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS)Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR 'With kindest regards from the author' on the front free endpaper, frontispiece the first gathering detached, publisher's pictorial green cloth gilt, dark brown endpapers, hinges and corners worn, some abrasions, upper lower partially split, cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase gilt lettered on spine [Prideaux 3], 8vo, C. Kegan Paul, 1879Footnotes:Inscribed presentation copy of the author's third book, gifted to his cousin Maud Babington.Provenance: Maud Babington (neé Wilson), inscribed in ink on the title-page, and 'Mrs Wilson, 56 Risbygate St., Bury St. Edmunds' in pencil beneath gift inscription. Stevenson enjoyed stays in 1870 and 1873 with Maud and her husband Churchill Babington at their home at Cockfield, near Bury St. Edmunds; Sotheby's, 11 December 2003, lot 101.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

STEVENSON (ROBERT LOUIS)Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde... Authorized Edition, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 4-pages of advertisements at end, publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, very slightly rubbed at spine extremities, preserved in cloth solander box [Prideaux 17], 8vo, New York, Charles Scribner's Son, 1886Footnotes:The first appearance of Stevenson's 'shilling shocker', 'a moral allegory about the divided self and the problem of evil, the main incidents of which came to him in a dream' (ODNB), which achieved and enduring world-wide.The first edition, this American imprint preceded the English edition by four days. Only 1200 copies were issued in cloth, with a further 3000 copies in wrappers.Provenance: Margaret Carr, pencil inscription on the front free endpaper.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[SWIFT (JONATHAN)][Gulliver's Travels] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION (Teeerink's 'A' Edition), engraved portrait frontispiece (second state), 6 engraved maps and plans, red speckled edges to text block, some light spotting and browning, contemporary calf, sides with double-fillet gilt border, neatly rebacked preserving most of original spines, later red and green gilt morocco lettering labels, some abrasions, modern cloth slipcase [Teerink 289; Grolier English 42; PMM 185; Rothschild 2104-2106], 8vo, Benjamin Motte, 1726Footnotes:First edition of the author's masterpiece, Teerink's 'A' edition published on 28 October 1726, which 'has given Swift an immortality beyond temporary fame... [his] sustained logic in invention and a facility for absorbing the reader till fiction becomes reality, bought Swift a different and far wider readership than he had envisaged' (PMM). Provenance: W. Gower, ink signature in upper margin of both titles; Sotheby's, 12 December 2012, lot 85.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

THACKERAY (WILLIAM MAKEPEACE) - 'COSWAY' BINDINGVanity Fair. A Novel Without a Hero, FIRST COMPLETE EDITION, bound from the original parts (with the illustration of the Marquess of Steyne, which was suppressed in later editions), additional engraved title-page, frontispiece and 38 plates by the author, 'Cosway' style binding of full blue morocco gilt, the sides with corner fleurons with red inlays, the spine in 6 compartments (4 with a floral design in gilt and red morocco inlays, 2 with lettering) within raised bands, inside covers with decorative gilt dentelles enclosing a central panel of red morocco, a miniature portrait roundel on ivory of Thackeray embedded under glass in centre of inside upper cover, red watered silk endpapers, g.e., preserved in cloth solander box, 8vo, Bradbury and Evans, 1848This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • Y Ф• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the EU, see clause 13.Ф This lot contains or is made of ivory and cannot be imported into the USA or any country within the EU.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[WALTON (ISAAK)]The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, FIRST EDITION, engraved vignette on title, 6 engraved vignettes of fish, 2 pages of music, without final blank R4, final leaf (pp.245/6) with small piece torn away at lower gutter corner resulting in the loss of 2 words and partial loss of 4 others, replaced in manuscript facsimile, re-cased in early nineteenth century green straight-grained morocco, gilt lettered on spine, g.e. [ESTC R202374; Coigney 1; Horne 1; Oliver 1; Pforzheimer 1048; Westwood & Satchell, p.217], 8vo (140 x 85mm.), Richard Marriott, 1653Footnotes:A FINE COPY, WITH A DISTINGUISHED PROVENANCE, OF THE MOST CELEBRATED WORK IN ANGLING LITERATURE, Westwood and Satchell noting that 'A FIRST Walton confers distinction upon its owner...'. It has since been published in upwards of 400 editions. Provenance: Archibald Philip Primrose, fifth Earl of Rosebery (1847-1929, Prime Minister), bookplate; Robert Ashley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe (1858-1945, politician, Rosebery's son-in-law), with his autograph note ('left to me by Lord Rosebery)/Crewe 21 May 1929') on the front free endpaper; thence by descent; Sotheby's, 14 July 2015, lot 62.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CONRAD (JOSEPH)The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' A Tale of the Sea, first English edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO HIS FRIEND AND FELLOW NOVELIST STEPHEN REYNOLDS, ('To Stephen Reynolds, fisherman, architect and man of Great Faith (the faith that moves mountains) this copy of a be-praised and obscure work is affectionately presented in memory of the auspicious year of the First Book by his friend J. Conrad'), leaf of 'Press Opinions' bound before half-title (replacing the second blank leaf), 4pp. of advertisements (S1-2) at end but without the 16pp. of publisher's announcements, some spotting to opening and final leaves (heaviest on endpapers), publisher's slate grey smooth cloth (Cagle's b binding with publisher's name at foot of spine in a uniform 3mm. height), upper cover stamped in gilt with the title within a life ring device, slightly rubbed at extremities, preserved in cloth solander box [Cagle A3c(b)], 8vo, William Heinemann, 1898Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO STEPHEN REYNOLDS, friend, fellow writer and explorer of the seas who, in the first decade of the century through introductions by Edward Garnett Reynolds, became close friends with Edward Thomas and Conrad. His first book was A Poor Man's House (1908), 'an Orwellian picture of working-class life from the inside... Joseph Conrad called it 'a book for which one seems to have waited all the time'' (ODNB). His only novel, The Holy Mountain, appeared in 1909, and it seems probable that Conrad's warm presentation inscription was written to celebrate the publication of one of these works.Provenance: Stephen Reynolds, presentation inscription from the author; 'My favorite book to my favorite person - P.L., 1940', ink inscription on half-title; Christie's New York, Roger Rechler Sale, 11 October 2002, lot 49; Sotheby's, The Joseph Conrad Collection From the Library of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, 15 July 2014, lot 211.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CONRAD (JOSEPH)Lord Jim. A Tale, FIRST EDITION, half-title, publisher's green cloth, stamped in black and gilt, slight soiling, preserved in morocco-backed solander box [Cagle A5a(1)], 8vo, Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1900Footnotes:Provenance: Ernest Hastings, ownership inscription (1911) on front free endpaper; George M. Foster, bookplate; John A. Spoor, bookplate; Sotheby's, 8 July 2004, lot 142.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CONRAD (JOSEPH)Typhoon and Other Stories, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO JOHN GALSWORTHY ('To J. Galsworthy most affectionately from Jph. Conrad 1903') on the front free endpaper, 2pp. publisher's advertisements before the half-title, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some light spotting, publisher's dark grey cloth, gilt stamped decoration on upper cover, gilt lettered on spine, rubbed at extremities, soiling to upper cover, preserved in morocco-backed solander box [Cagle A8b(1)], 8vo, William Heinemann, 1903Footnotes:'TO J. GALSWORTHY MOST AFFECTIONATELY' - Inscribed in the year of publication to Conrad's fellow novelist and lifelong friend, whom he had first met in 1893, and to whom in 1904 he dedicated Nostromo.Provenance: John Galsworthy, author's gift inscription, and bookplate; Sotheby's (Hodgson's Rooms), 26 April 1979, lot 106; Sotheby's, The Joseph Conrad Collection From the Library of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, 10 July 2013, lot 40.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CONRAD (JOSEPH)The Secret Agent, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 40pp. publisher's catalogue (dated September 1907) at end, final leaf of catalogue toned, publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine, 3 small black ink spots to spine, headbands slightly worn, preserved in morocco-backed solander box [Cagle A12a(1)], 8vo, Methuen, 1907Footnotes:Provenance: Gladys Scott, Manchester 1907, ink inscription on front free endpaper; G.E.G. Tooth, gilt morocco bookplate; Bonhams, 18 June 2002, lot 156.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CONRAD (JOSEPH)Under Western Eyes, FIRST EDITION, half-title, 32pp. publisher's catalogue dated 'September 1911' at end, 3 publisher's flyers (all mentioning 'Western Eyes') loosely inserted, toning to endpapers, publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, DUST-JACKET with fraying to extremities of spine, small hole (touching rule border) at foot of lower joint, preserved in morocco-backed solander box [Cagle A14a(1)], 8vo, Methuen & Co., 1911Footnotes:FINE COPY IN A DUST-JACKET of Conrad's great political novel in which the author 'even dared to challenge (and arguably surpassed) Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment', and which is considered one of the sequence of novels which confirmed 'his stature as one of the greatest fiction-writers—and probably the greatest political novelist—in English' (ODNB). Loosely inserted in this copy are three publisher's advertisement flyers, all mentioning this work, one noting that 'critics have found in his [Conrad's] remarkable work kinship with Turgenov [sic]'.Provenance: Paul Lemperly, bookplate; Estelle Doheny, gilt morocco book label; her sale, Christie's New York, 17 October 1988, lot 1206; Sotheby's, 28 October 2010, lot 30.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BEETON (ISABELLA)Beeton's Book of Household Management, FIRST EDITION IN 24 ORIGINAL PARTS, wood-engraved colour-printed frontispiece and title-page in part 1, 12 colour plates, vignette engravings in text, advertisements in parts 1, 2 (printed on yellow paper, with prospectus for this work), 5, 13 (for Christmas Annual with subscription form), 14 and 19, publisher's buff and rose pictorial wrappers, five parts numbered in ink, covers to part 1 and lower cover of part 17 detached, some loss to most spines, preserved in cloth solander box, 8vo (188 x 120mm.), S.O. Beeton, [1859-1861]Footnotes:RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL COOKERY BOOK OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. The publisher's prospectus, bound in part 2, noted that the work was intended to be completed 'in 15 or 18 parts', but it was eventually expanded to twenty-four, as first announced on the front wrappers of part 19. Published in book form upon the completion of its parts issue in October 1861, Mrs. Beeton's Household Management had sold nearly 2 million copies by 1868, and has remained in print ever since. 'Its success... rested on its quality, especially the combination of clear structure and precise detail. Recipes, for example, were arranged alphabetically in sections, with ingredients, prices, weights, and cooking times all precisely stated' (ODNB).Provenance: Mrs. F. Parks, early ownership signature to front wrapper of several parts; Robert H. & Donna L. Jackson, bookplate; Bonhams, New York, The Robert H. and Donna L. Jackson Collection, 18 October 2011, lot 201.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CONRAD (JOSEPH)Some Reminiscences, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO THE POET EDWARD THOMAS ('Edward Thomas with friendly regards from JC 1912') on the front free endpaper, half-title, 2pp. of advertisements at the end, publisher's dark blue beaded cloth lettered in gilt, very slightly rubbed, preserved in cloth chemise and morocco-backed slipcase (a few small abrasions) [Cagle A15b(1)], 8vo, Eveleigh Nash, 1912Footnotes:A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED TO THE POET EDWARD THOMAS. They probably met in 1910 at one of the 'Mont Blanc' Tuesday literary lunches presided over by Edward Garnett, after which their friendship developed over a shared knowledge of literature and as neighbours in Kent, with Thomas dedicating his Walter Pater. A Critical Study to Conrad in 1913. Their last meeting took place during Thomas' last leave home from France in December 1916, when they ran into each in a train carriage, Thomas saying ''We meet, then, dear Conrad, once more'... Conrad shuddered. It was indeed the last' (R.B. Eckert, Edward Thomas. A Biography and Bibliography, 1937). Provenance: Edward Thomas (1878-1917), presentation inscription from the author; Sotheby's, The Joseph Conrad Collection From the Library of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, 10 July 2013, lot 77.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CONRAD (JOSEPH)'Twixt Land and Sea, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED 'R.D. Macintosh with affectionate regards from J. Conrad' on the front free endpaper, half-title, title printed in red and black, light spotting, publisher's green cloth, title in black on upper cover and in gilt on spine, slightly rubbed, cloth chemise, morocco-backed slipcase (worn) [Cagle A16a(1), i.e. second binding with 'Freya of the Seven Seas' correct on cover], 8vo, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1912Footnotes:INSCRIBED TO CONRAD'S DOCTOR. Robert Dunbar Mackintosh (1865-1934) was close to Conrad from 1909 until 1921 when the friendship ended in a falling out because of the collapse of Mackintosh's Surrey Scientific Apparatus Company in which Conrad had invested. Previously Conrad had 'valued the companionship and advice of this Scottish doctor, and amateur playwright and inventor' (Davis & Stapes, The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, Vol.7, 2005).Provenance: R.D. Mackintosh, author's gift inscription; Sotheby's, The Joseph Conrad Collection From the Library of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, 15 July 2014, lot 279.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CONRAD (JOSEPH)Victory. An Island Tale, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO HIS FRIENDS JOHN AND ADA GALSWORTHY, INSCRIBED 'To dear Ada and Jack with love from J. Conrad. 1915' on the front free endpaper, half-title, 4pp. publisher's advertisements ('Methuen's Popular Novels') and 31pp. publisher's catalogue (dated '8/5/15') at end, publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, spine faded, slightly rubbed at extremities, preserved in morocco-backed solander box [Cagle A19b(i)], 8vo, Methuen & Co., [1915]Footnotes:INSCRIBED BY CONRAD TO HIS GREAT FRIENDS JOHN AND ADA GALSWORTHY. A future Nobel Prize for Literature, Galsworthy first met Conrad aboard the sailing ship Torrens in Adelaide Harbour in 1893, immediately recognising in him 'his deeply affectionate heart and his far-ranging, subtle mind' (Reminiscences of Conrad, 1924). A lifelong friendship ensued, to include Galsworthy's wife Ada, for whose translation of Maupassant's stories (1904) Conrad contributed the introduction.Provenance: John and Ada Galsworthy, gift inscription from the author; Sotheby's (Hodgson's), 26 April 1979, lot 119; Sotheby's, The Joseph Conrad Collection From the Library of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, 10 July 2013, lot 87.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CONRAD (JOSEPH)The Arrow of Gold, first English edition, THE DEDICATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE DAY OF PUBLICATION TO HIS CLOSE FRIEND RICHARD CURLE ('Richard Curle his own copy from JC. 6.8.1919', on the half-title ), and with a 10-line note discussing the book's genesis on the dedication page, state with missing 'A' in 'ARROW' in running headline on p.67, light toning to free endpapers, publisher's dark green vertically ribbed cloth lettered in gilt (Cagle's a binding, in state (c) with white wove endpapers), top edge stained green, dust-jacket (small losses and tears to margins (one just touching the 'J' of author's name on upper wrapper), preserved in cloth chemise and morocco-backed solander box [Cagle A38b(1), 8vo, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., [1919]Footnotes:THE DEDICATION COPY IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET, INSCRIBED TWICE BY CONRAD, including a lengthy note on the book itself: 'The subject of this piece of writing has been in my my[sic] mind for many years. All the personages are authentic and the facts are as stated [printed dedication to Curle] The Ms. was finished in eleven months. Serial pub. in the London Mag.ne began in the Christmas number 1918. Joseph Conrad'.Provenance: Richard Curle (1883-1968), close friend of Conrad from the time of their meeting in 1912. He wrote Joseph Conrad: A Study (1914), and was co-executor of Conrad's estate after the author's death; Sotheby's, The Joseph Conrad Collection From the Library of the Late Stanley J. Seeger, 10 July 2013, lot 126.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[DICKENS (CHARLES)]The Library Of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller; consisting of Original Tales, Essays, and Sketches of Character, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, 28 wood-engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), R. Seymour, R.W. Buss and others, without half-titles, occasional light spotting, early green half morocco gilt, marbled edges [Eckel, pp. 137-39; Gimbel E122], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1836-1837Footnotes:Includes two contributions ('The Tugg's at Ramsgate' and 'A Little Talk about Spring and the Sweeps') by Dickens, writing as 'Boz'.Provenance: Sotheby's, 12 July 2005, lot 103.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, GENEVA VERSION[The Bible: that is, the Holy Scriptures contained in the Old and the New Testament], woodcut initials and end-pieces, double column, roman letter, lacks 11 leaves (A1-A8, Ss4-Ss5, and Nnn6), B1 with loss to lower half of leaf, bound with incomplete copies of the Book of Common Prayer, and Book of Psalmes (with title, for Richard Day, 1591, ESTC S5288), shaved with some loss to headlines and side-notes, nineteenth century calf gilt, black morocco gilt spine label, rubbed at extremities, preserved in modern morocco-backed solander box [ESTC S5180, citing 3 copies only: British Library, Cambridge University Library, and the Bodleian; Herbert 208], 8vo, [Cambridge, John Legate, 1591]Footnotes:RARE. THE EARLIEST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE PRINTED AT CAMBRIDGE. No further complete editions of the Bible were printed in Cambridge (or indeed elsewhere outside London) until 1629. Published by John Legate, university printer at Cambridge, who 'printed his small octavo Bible in roman type using the Geneva Version, then the preferred version of puritan readers... It was the Bible of Shakespeare and Bunyan, and the first settlers in North America' (Michael Black, A Short History of Cambridge University Press, 2000).Provenance: Silas Kerslake, 1733 above note '... was bound ye month of December', inscription on Aa4 (end of Apocrypha); Sarah Allen, 8 November 1862; gifted by Allen, of Lydeard St. Lawrence, to F. Martin, of Bishop Lydeard, Somerset on 16 September 1875, inscriptions on front free endpaper; Sotheby's, 17 December 2008.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)The Village Coquettes: A Comic Opera. In Two Acts... The Music by John Hullah, FIRST EDITION, unbound and unopened sheets in five quires, some spotting (mostly to title and final leaf), cloth chemise, and blue half morocco gilt slipcase [Eckel, pp.157-158; Gimbel A25], 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1836Footnotes:Unopened copy of the sheet of the first edition of the comic opera by Dickens, with music by John Pyke Hullah, a fellow student of Dickens' sister Fanny at the Royal Academy of Music. It opened in London at St. James's Theatre on 6 December 1836, when 'there were cheers for Boz at the curtain. But a young critic named John Forster had something to say about the cheers and the piece: 'the libretto was totally unworthy of Boz' he wrote, 'although the audience screamed for Boz!'' (Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens, 2011).Provenance: Eric Quayle, bookplate; Bernard Quaritch, catalogue entry dated April 1965; Victor B. Levit, bookplate, all on chemise; Christie's, 23 November 2009, lot 190.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, mixed issue, half-title, additional etched title and 42 plates by R. Seymour, R.W. Buss, and Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), some plates with light toning or spotting but generally good, publisher's pictorial blue wrappers, a few spines rebacked, others with some small repairs, some minor soiling and wear, preserved together with incomplete set of Thomas Onwhyn's 'Illustrations to the Pickwick Club...' [see footnote] in cloth chemise, and red morocco-backed slipcase [Eckel, Prime Pickwicks in Parts; Hatton & Cleaver, pp.3-88], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, April 1836-1837Footnotes:This set has later issue text in parts 1-8, first and later issue points in parts 9-10, and first issue text in parts 11-19/20. The inner wrappers of parts 1-8 are blank, issue covers of parts 1 and 2 reads 'With Four Illustrations by Seymour', the wrappers to parts 16 and 17 dated 1837, the remainder dated 1836. Lacks all the advertisements in parts 1-9, and 11-12. Parts 10, and 14-19/30 have the 'Pickwick Advertiser' (second issued in part 10) and all advertisements, part 13 has 'Pickwick Advertiser' and 4pp. 'Ward's Miscellany' only. The author's 'Address' leaf is present in part 2, lacking in part 3, and present as later issue in part 10. The publisher's 'Address' leaf is correct in parts 17 and 18, and present but a a later issue in part 19/20.Sold with the lot, and housed in the same slipcase, is: [Thomas Olwyn] Illustrations to the Pickwick Club...by Samuel Weller, 7 parts (of 8, lacking part 7), 28 etched plates (of 32), publisher's green printed wrappers [Gimbel H1120], E. Grattan, 1837.Provenance: A.M. Cohn (Cruikshank's bibliographer), bookplate; Kenyon Starling, bookplate; Christie's New York, William E. Self Family Collection, Part I. The Kenyon Starling Library of Charles Dickens, 2 April 2008, lot 18.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, bound in 2 vol., half-title (bound at front of second volume), 43 etched plates by R. Seymour and Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), some browning and oxidisation to plates, small tear closed to the additional title, full red crushed morocco gilt by Riviere & Son, sides with 3-line gilt fillet border, spine gilt-tooled in 6 compartments within raised bands, gilt dentelles, g.e., ALL THE ORIGINAL PARTS WRAPPERS, AND SOME OF THE ADVERTISEMENTS BOUND IN [cf. Eckel, Prime Pickwick in Parts; Hatton & Cleaver, pp.3-88], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1837Footnotes:Finely bound by Riviere & Son, a copy of the first edition bound from the original monthly parts, and retaining all the original blue-green pictorial parts wrappers, and some of the original advertisements, including 7 issues of 'The Pickwick Advertiser'.Provenance: Viscount Monsell of Evesham, small oval bookplate; purchased from Traylen of Guildford, May 2000.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, issue with 'Weller' on the etched title, half-title, 43 etched plates (including frontispiece and additional pictorial title) by R. Seymour, and Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with approximately 55 hand-coloured engraved plates (22 by F.W. Pailthorp from the 1882 edition), and the publisher's blue-green pictorial wrappers to part 3 of the original monthly parts edition, and upper wrapper to the 1882 edition, full red morocco gilt by Riviere & Son (gilt stamp inside upper cover), spine tooled in 6 compartments within raised bands, g.e. [Eckel pp.17-78; Smith I:3], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1839Footnotes:A handsome, extra-illustrated copy finely bound by Riviere & Son.Provenance: ?Alex F. Delile, early signature on the additional title; Herbert H. Swift, bookplate; Charles Traylen, of Guildford, purchased May 2000.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION IN THE 10 ORIGINAL PARTS, the half-title, contents leaf and preface in the final part, 24 engraved plates by George Cruikshank (occasional pale browning but generally very clean), with all the advertisements called for by Hatton and Cleaver ('The Oliver Twist Advertiser' in parts 1 and 2, and single leaf advertisement printed on yellow paper at end of part 10), publisher's blue-green pictorial wrappers with a design by George Cruikshank (some very skilfully rebacked to match, a few small repairs, a few split along the joint, small loss to blank tip of lower fore-corner of part 1), preserved in cloth solander box, gilt morocco lettering labels on upper cover and spine [Hatton & Cleaver, pp.216-224; Gimbel A38], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, 1846Footnotes:AN EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD SET - THE STARLING-SELF COPY.'COMPLETE SETS OF THE TEN PARTS CAN, WITHOUT EXAGGERATION, BE DESCRIBED AS THE UTMOST RARITY, whether in fine, modern or poor condition. The very scarcity alone, of the book in parts, gives added zest to the tracking down of copies, but many would-be owners are doomed to disappointment in their efforts to effect a capture, in face of the very limited supply available' (Hatton & Cleaver). Oliver Twist originally ran as a serial in Bentley's Miscellany from 1837-1839, concurrently being published in the three-volume issue. For this parts-issue ('New Edition, Revised and Corrected') Cruikshank's plates for Bentley's Miscellany were re-touched, re-bitten, and added to by an etcher named Findlay.Provenance: G. Tottenham, ink signature on first part; Stephen M. Dryfoos, bookplate; Kenyon Starling, bookplate; Sotheby's, The William E. Self Family Collection Part I. The Kenyon Starling Library of Charles Dickens, 2 April 2008, lot 52 (described as 'undoubtedly the finest copy to appear at auction in the last thirty years').This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[DICKENS (CHARLES)]A Strange Gentleman. A Comic Burletta in Two Acts by 'Boz', First performed at the St James's Theatre on Thursday 29 September 1836, FIRST EDITION, with the mispelling 'somehting' on p.5., etched frontispiece by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), browning and spotting to frontispiece, later half blue morocco gilt, label on upper cover, preserved in matching slipcase [Eckel, pp.154-156; Gimbel A26], 8vo (174 x 103mm.), Chapman & Hall, 1837Footnotes:FIRST EDITION, WITH THE RARE FRONTISPIECE, OF THE 'SCARCEST AND THE COSTLIEST OF ALL DICKENS PAMPHLETS' (Eckel). The Strange Gentleman, the first of the author's plays to be performed publicly, was adapted from 'The Winglebury Duel' in Sketches by Boz, as a vehicle for Dickens' friend, the comic actor John Pritt Harley. The play was very well received and reviewed, running for over fifty nights.Provenance: Sotheby's, 15 July 2014, lot 533.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by 'BOZ', 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, issue without border to final plate ('The Last Song') in volume 2, with correct page numeral 182 on list of plates in volume 1, and 36pp. publisher's catalogue at end, half-titles, engraved portrait after J. Raven, 12 etched plates by George Cruikshank, spotting, publisher's dark maroon cloth, blind-stamped decoration with central arabesque on sides, gilt pictorial spines, yellow endpapers, very slightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, preserved in fleece-lined cloth solander boxes (edges worn) [Eckel, pp.152-155; cf. Gimbel B64], 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1838Footnotes:The Memoirs of the celebrated clown Joe Grimaldi were originally edited by Thomas Egerton Wilks, prior to being sold to the publisher Richard Bentley, who commissioned Dickens to re-edit them, adding his own introductory and concluding chapters. Dickens was perhaps drawn to the task having himself seen Grimaldi perform when he was a boy of seven or eight.Provenance: Oliver Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher, bookplate; Sotheby's, 8 July 2004, lot 108.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Edited by 'Boz', FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, mixed issue, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece by Daniel Maclise, 39 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), plates in parts 1 and 2 have publisher's imprint, part 4 has 'visiter' for 'sister' on p.123, line 17 (first state), part 5 has 'latter' for 'letter' on p.160, 6 lines up (first state), plate 29 is second issue with shortened title, all but 8 of the advertisements and slips called for by Hatton and Cleaver (without 'Francis West' in part 1; 'Reading Club', 'National Loan Fund' and 'Joseph Amsbury' in part 3; 'Heads of People' and 'Mechi's Catalogue' in part 8; 'New and Splendid...' in part 19/20), also without the 'Mary Ashbury' slip (described by H. & C. as 'non-essential'), 'Mechi's Catalogue' called for in part 2 bound in part 1, cloth chemise, part 5 has an advertisement ('Horne's Public Subscription Library') not called for in H. & C., publisher's pictorial blue-green wrappers, most backstrips repaired or replaced, lower wrapper to part 3 has small losses and advertisements differing from those called for by H. & C., occasional light spotting but plates generally quite clean, lower corner of upper wrapper to part 19/20 cut away and replaced with piece from another copy, green half morocco pull-off case [Eckel, pp.64-66; Gimbel A40; Hatton & Cleave, pp.129-160], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, April 1838-October 1839Footnotes:'This story, which for thirteen months Dickens wrote alongside Oliver Twist, originated in his determination to expose the scandal of unwanted children consigned to remote and brutal Yorkshire schools... the story is rich in unforgettable comic characters like the endlessly garrulous Mrs Nickleby and the strolling player Vincent Crummles and his troupe, and in places it resembles Sketches by Boz in its vivid evocation of particular London neighbourhoods' (ODNB).Provenance: William E. Self, bookplate; his sale, Christie's New York, 4 December 2009, lot 58.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, IN A PRESENTATION BINDING WITH A TIPPED-IN LETTER PRESENTING THIS COPY TO ALBANY WILLIAM FONBLANQUE, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece after Daniel Maclise, 39 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), browning and foxing to plates, autograph letter from the author (dated 14 November [1839]) tipped-in on front free endpaper, contemporary full green pebble grain morocco, sides ruled in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, g.e., pale yellow endpapers, upper joint and spine ends neatly repaired, cloth chemise and red morocco-backed slipcase by Bayntun Riviere [Eckel, p.64; Smith I:5; Robert L. Patten, Charles Dickens and his Publishers, p.101], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1839Footnotes:AN IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY TO THE JOURNALIST ALBANY WILLIAM FONBLANQUE, with an accompanying autograph letter to Fonblanque, sent from Doughty Street on Thursday 14 November, [1839].'My Dear Sir, Do me the favor to accept a copy of Nickleby, and with it the assurances of my warm regards and admiration', and further informing him of his impending move to 'nearer to your neighbourhood - Devonshire Place... and when this comes to pass, I cherish the hope of seeing you more frequently...'. The letter is published in the Pilgrim Edition of The Letters of Charles Dickens, volume 1, Clarendon Press, 1965, p.603.Albany William Fonblanque (1793-1872) was one of the greatest political journalists of this time, editor of The Examiner (1830-47) and leader-writer for The Times, Morning Chronicle and Dickens's own Daily News. According to J.S. Mill it was through Fonblanque that The Examiner became 'the principal representative, in the newspaper press, of Radical opinions' (Autobiography, p.173), and Thomas Carlyle considered that Fonblanque's journalism made him 'the cleverest man living of that craft at present' (Collected Letters, vol. 9, 1977, p.151). In his role as editor of The Examiner 'Fonblanque, famous for his sparkling wit and polished style, noticed the wit and exuberance of Dickens's earliest works', himself reviewing Dickens' earliest works, but probably commissioning Leigh Hunt to review Nickleby (Alec. W. Brice, 'Reviewers of Dickens in the Examiner: Fonblanque, Forster, Hunt, and Morley', Dickens Studies Newsletter, Vol. 3, No.3, September 1972, pp. 68-80).Perhaps most importantly in terms of Dickens's future career and reputation, it was Fonblanque who first brought Dickens to the attention of his biographer, champion and close friend John Forster, who from 1833 had been employed as drama literary critic at The Examiner. He recalled that 'The Sketches [of Boz] were much more talked about than the first two or three numbers of Pickwick, and I remember still with what hearty praise the book was first named to me by my dear friend Albany Fonblanque, as keen and clear a judge as ever lived either of books or men' (Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, 1872). During his period of greatest influence between 1826 and 1837 Fonblanque was a fierce champion of the extension of suffrage, a strong opponent of the aristocratic principle and a leading supporter of the Reform Bill (1832). At this time he made 'frequent after-dinner appearances in London drawing-rooms: he was often at Holland House, had links with the Carlyles, William Macready, and the Dickens circle... [and despite] his poor health his great enthusiasm was yachting with the Royal Thames Yacht Club; Dickens joined him on two occasions' (ODNB).This copy is one of a small number of copies of Nicholas Nickleby specially bound in this full green morocco binding. See Robert L. Patten, Charles Dickens and his Publishers: 'Nickleby was ready by the end of October...in cloth for 21s., half-morocco for 24s. 6d., and full morocco, gilt, for 26s. 6d.'. Most of the morocco copies appear to have been reserved for presentation. The Suzannet collection had two: one presented to Dickens's sister Letitia Austin (item A.9, part of the portion of the library now preserved at Dickens House), and another presented to Sir David Wilkie (sold as lot 45 at Sotheby's sale of Autograph Manuscripts and Letters, Original Drawings and First Editions...from the collection of the late Comte Alain de Suzannet, 22 November, 1971).Provenance: Albany William Fonblanque, ownership signature on the front endpaper, and letter of presentation from Dickens tipped-in; Sotheby's, 12 July 2005, lot 99.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, half-title, engaved portrait, 39 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), some oxidization and spotting to plates, early green half morocco gilt, extremities of spine rubbed [Smith I:5], Chapman and Hall, 1839; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, with '£100' corrected on additional title, engraved frontispiece, additional pictorial title and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), occasional light spotting, recased in early red half morocco gilt over marbled boards [Smith I:7], Chapman and Hall, 1844; Our Mutual Friend, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, 40 wood-engraved plates by Marcus Stone, without the 'to the reader' slip, some spotting, early green half calf over marbled boards, black morocco gilt spine labels, rubbed and slightly refurbished at corners [Smith I: 15], Chapman and Hall, 1865, without advertisements, 8vo (4)Footnotes:Provenance: Purchased from Peter Kaye, March-October 1997.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

[DICKENS (CHARLES)]The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'wine' for 'vine' on page 13, half-title, engraved plate of music, 11 etched plates by George Cruickshank, 8pp. publisher's advertisements at end, spotting to plates, publisher's green pictorial cloth gilt, extremities slightly rubbed, preserved in cloth solander box, gilt lettered on spine [Eckel, pp. 206-208; Cohn 243], 16mo, Charles Tilt, 'and Mustapha Syried, Constantinople', 1839Footnotes:Charles Dickens's anonymously published version of the popular comic ballad telling of an English Lord who travelled to the East, is imprisoned, then released by the jailer's daughter Sophia ('so called doubtless from the mosque of St. Sophia, at Constantinople'). Provenance: Oliver Brett, 3rd Viscount Esher, bookplate; his sale, Sotheby's, 26 March 1940, lot 540; Sotheby's, Charles Dickens. The Lawrence Drizen Collection, 24 September 2019, lot 58.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT)Poems, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, without advertisement leaf and publisher's catalogue, polished calf gilt by Zaehnsdorf, sides with single gilt rule border and floral corner-pieces, red and green gilt morocco spine labels, t.e.g., a few abrasions to spine, 8vo, Edward Moxon, 1844This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)Master Humphrey's Clock, FIRST EDITION, IN 20 ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, 3 frontispieces, titles and preliminaries, wood-engraved illustrations by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), George Cattermole, S. Williams and Daniel Maclise, all the advertisements as called for by Hatton and Cleaver, publisher's blue-green pictorial wrappers, light stain and tear to wrappers of part 10, upper wrapper of part 11 detached with small loss to blank lower cover, a few small tears and small losses to some spines, preserved in chemises within 2 red crushed morocco gilt pull-off book cases [Eckel, pp.67-70; Gimbel A50; Hatton and Cleaver, pp.163-182], large 8vo, Chapman and Hall, April 1840-November 1841Footnotes:Handsomely housed set of the first edition in monthly parts of Master Humphrey's Clock, which included the first appearance of both The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge, with all the advertisements. Provenance: Sewell, name in upper margin of wrappers to parts 10 and 11; Sotheby's, 13 December 2001.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

DICKENS (CHARLES)Barnaby Rudge. A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty, FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED 'Mrs. [Elizabeth] Smithson from Charles Dickens New Years Day 1842' on the title-page, illustrations by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz') and George Cattermole, some browning, short tears and repairs to pp.240-241 and pp.255-266 (mostly marginal, but touching some letters), full red morocco gilt by Riviere, gilt dentelles, g.e., morocco-edged slipcase [Smith II.6b; Gimbel A63], large 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1841Footnotes:PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY DICKENS TWO WEEKS AFTER PUBLICATION - the recipient was Elizabeth, wife of Charles Smithson, one of Dickens' lawyers, and a personal friend. Dickens was godfather to the Smithson's daughter Mary, and the Smithsons spent the summers of 1840 and 1841 at Broadstairs. Dickens wrote to Smithson shortly after the publication of Barnaby Rudge on 15 December, 'Ease my mind and ask Mrs. Smithson to ease it on the subject of my liabilities. I am going to send her two books, and will remit, if you or she will put me in a condition to do so', and on New Years' day wrote to Mrs. Smithson sending fondest regards and asking her 'to accept the inclosed for my poor sake', referring particularly to The Old Curiosity Shop but as evidenced from the previous letter and the date of the inscription also referring to this copy of Barnaby Rudge. He subsequently inscribed a copy of Christmas Carol to Mrs Smithson.Provenance: Elizabeth Smithson, author's presentation inscription, New Year's Day, 1942; Christie's New York, Philip M. Neufeld sale, 25 April 1995, lot 116; Sotheby's, 10 December 2013, lot 291.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com