Mutual Friend by Dickens Charles, Signed (5 results)

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good ++. Marcus Stone (illustrator). First Edition. 1st Edition 1865. 40 plates by Marcus Stone.Two Volumes Bound as One. Beautifully bound in a contemporary full green calf with gilt tooling to spine and board edges, gauffered board edges, raised bands and hand marbled endpapers. Condition is excellent, all joints and hinges sound, wear minimal, bindings solid and no marks or inscriptions. A very good quality binding. Book is very good++ and bright. Light marking to boards. Nice clean contents. A lovely example. l images available upon request.Ref 16602. Signed by Author(s).

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good ++. Marcus Stone (illustrator). First Edition. 1st Edition 1865. 40 plates by Marcus Stone.Two Volumes Bound as One. A late Victorian beautifully bound three quarter leather with gilt work to spine covers and inner edges. Hand marbled endpapers and boards. Book is very good and in nice bright condition. Lovely tight and solid hinges.Light edge rubbing. Contents good. Light age toning and odd marks to the pages. Plates age toned/foxed as always. More images available upon request. Ref More images available upon request. Ref16831. Signed by Author(s).

2 volumes. Illustr by Marcus Stone, 8.75 x 5.25, 3/4 black morocco; blue cloth, teg, 309, 320 pp, covers a little rubbed, extremities lightly worn, hinges loose, pp a little toned but still a nice, handsome, decorative binding set. FIRST TWO-VOLUME BOOK ED, FIRST STATE with all the points from the Heritage Bookshop Smith bibliography, with printed note "The Reader will understand. . . " tipped in; with tipped-in CDV of Charles Dickens (J. Gurney & Son, NY) and an ENVELOPE FRONT PANEL ADDRESSED (to his publishers, Chapman and Hall) AND SIGNED BY CHARLES DICKENS attached to front blank; also tipped-in to next page is a SHORT AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED BY THE ARTIST "Uncle" MARCUS STONE, on his Melbury Road letterhead, dated Oct. 23, 1886. ALSO included at end are 10 or 11 ORIGINAL BLUE PAPER WRAPPERS FOR THE PARTS VERSION, INCLUDING ADS! Also, attached to front fly is a typed note from Marshall Field & Co describing the contents of the book.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL INK AND WATERCOLOR SKETCH. 1 leaf, on paper, image 5-15/16" x 4-1/4", overall 11" x 8-3/4", signed "KYD" in the image, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. Joseph Clayton Clarke (1857 - 8 August 1937), who worked under the pseudonym "Kyd", was a British artist best known for his illustrations of characters from the novels of Charles Dickens. From 1927 Clarke earned his living from watercolor sketches, mainly of Dickens' characters, which he sold to and through the London book trade. Frederic G. Kitton referred to Clarke in his book Dickens and His Illustrators (1890), by which time Clarke's watercolors were already being bought by major Dickens collectors. In 1910 the British Museum acquired a collection of 598 drawings and paintings of Clarke's Dickens illustrations, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, Charles Dickens Museum and the University of Texas at Austin each also have significant collections of Clarke's Dickens illustrations. Signed by Illustrator(s).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. ORIGINAL INK AND WATERCOLOR SKETCH. 1 leaf, on paper, image 5-15/16"" x 4-1/4", overall 11" x 8-3/4", signed "KYD" in the image, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. Joseph Clayton Clarke (1857 - 8 August 1937), who worked under the pseudonym "Kyd", was a British artist best known for his illustrations of characters from the novels of Charles Dickens. From 1927 Clarke earned his living from watercolor sketches, mainly of Dickens' characters, which he sold to and through the London book trade. Frederic G. Kitton referred to Clarke in his book Dickens and His Illustrators (1890), by which time Clarke's watercolors were already being bought by major Dickens collectors. In 1910 the British Museum acquired a collection of 598 drawings and paintings of Clarke's Dickens illustrations, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, Charles Dickens Museum and the University of Texas at Austin each also have significant collections of Clarke's Dickens illustrations. Signed by Illustrator(s).