George Cattermole, Signed (4 results)

Leather. Condition: Good. George Cattermole (illustrator). The cover has green leather with decoration and lettering in gilt. The top end of the text block has gilt. 15 engravings. Tipped-in is a letter, with a date in 1838, and signed by the author. The letter has a split crease line and two closed tears. The tears are rejoined with tape that is now darkened. The split has a tape stain from a previous repair, but now is rejoined with document repair tape. The color is rubbed from the spine strip's edges and raised bands. Also the color is rubbed from the boards' front corners. One corner is worn through to the board. The spine strip has been glued to the text block spine. A book plate is on the front pastedown. Scans e-mailed upon request. Signed by the Author(s).

First Edition. Fair to good copy in original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Wear and rubbing to spine and panel edges. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 14 pages; Description: 14, [2] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm. Subjects: Haddon Hall (England). Notes: Added t.p., illustrated. Most illustrations signed: S. Rayner. Texts of earlier eds. ascribed to S. Rayner. Cf. Mansell. Pre-1956 imprints, v. 483, p. 155. 20 lithogr. plates and tinted title-page. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fair to good copy in original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Wear and rubbing to spine and panel edges. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 14 pages; Description: 14, [2] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm. Subjects: Haddon Hall (England). Notes: Added t.p., illustrated. Most illustrations signed: S. Rayner. Texts of earlier eds. ascribed to S. Rayner. Cf. Mansell. Pre-1956 imprints, v. 483, p. 155. 20 lithogr. plates and tinted title-page. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. George Cattermole and Hablot Browne (illustrator). First Edition. Three volumes (7" x 10-1/2") bound by Riviere & Son in green crushed levant morocco leather, neatly rebacked retaining the original spines, with gilt-ruled covers, gilt-decorated and lettered spines, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt, with the original wrappers and advertisements bound in at the rear of each volume. Bound from the 88 original weekly parts with all the wrappers and ads but without the addresses. Illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Extensively EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with the last page of a personal letter by Dickens with a fine SIGNATURE; two fine ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS of Dickens; an India Proof portrait of Dickens; a four-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by Thomas Sibson to Scottish poet and painter William Bell Scott; an ORIGINAL DRAWING by Sibson, "The Old Man Imploring Quilp to make Further Advances"; an ORIGINAL DRAWING PENCIL DRAWING by Dickens illustrator J. Clayton Clark, "The Traveling Showman"; an ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR DRAWING by Clark; 72 extra plates by Sibson, some inlaid, as issued by Twas; 8 scarce plates by Phiz, as issued by Chapman and Hall in sets of four; and 23 wood engravings. The M. C. D. Borden and John Kane copy with their bookplates on the front pastedowns and endpapers. This set last sold at auction in 1931 with the Dickens partial letter added by the purchaser in 1933 per pencil note and reads, "Georgy and the girls unite in kindest love, and in all the hearty good wishes that I send you for many many happy years to you, and to all who are dear to you. The Sheriff of Midlothian, a blaze of cravat and jewelry, is shining at this moment in the garden, through a dense fog, like another species of Northern Light. I beg to present my dutiful respect to my noble Godson." Contents clean; some rubbing to corners. Near Fine.