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FROM THE LIBRARY OF CHARLES DICKENS.Presentation copy from John Forster to Charles Dickens.Original bookplate of Charles Dickens.PRESENTATION COPY FROM JOHN FORSTER TO CHARLES DICKENS.John Forster was one of his closest friends, eventually writing the biography of Charles Dickens.First Edition of a book by John Forster, inscribed to Charles Dickens."The author to his most dear friend Charles Dickens"7 February 1860.John Forster (1812â"1876) was a prominent English biographer, critic, and editor, best known for his close friendship with Charles Dickens and for writing The Life of Charles Dickens (1872).Dickens frequently inscribed presentation copies of his novels to Forster with affectionate messages, often referring to him as his "dear" or "most dear" friend. Here is Forster gifting to Dickens in similar format.Additional bookplates of Edmund Yates, also a close peer of Dickens.Yates may have acquired these books at the Gadshill sale, motivated by the association from Forster.Some books from the Gadshill sale don't have Dickens actual bookplates.This set has Dickens actual bookplate.Significant provenance and owners:1. Charles Dickens bookplate.2. Inscribed association gift from John Forster, (on a First Edition work by John Forster,) gifted to Charles Dickens.3. Gadshill dispersal bookplates.4. Edmund Yates bookplates, close peer of Dickens.Forster personally inscribes and presents his own first edition to "his most dear friend Charles Dickens," 7 February 1860 â' Dickens's personal bookplate â' June 1870 Gadshill library label â' Sotheran's c.1871 valuation identifying K4 as a "Presentation copy" â' Charles Dickens Jr.'s K4 catalogue record â' later Edmund Yates ownership, evidenced by his bookplates.An exceptional association copy from the library of Charles Dickens.This is an exceptional Dickens association copy, because the author was one of Dickens's closest friends and eventual biographer, and the book physically records the direct presentation between themJohn Forster (1812â"1876) was a highly influential English biographer, critic, editor, and historian, best known for his intimate friendship with Charles Dickens and for authoring the seminal 3-volume biography, The Life of Charles Dickens (1872â"1874). He was a central figure in mid-19th-century London literary circles, acting as an advisor, agent, and confidant to many prominent writers.Edmund Yates (1831â"1894) was a prominent Victorian journalist, novelist, and dramatist who was a close protà gà of Charles Dickens. He contributed to Dickens's journals, Household Words and All the Year Round.This is an association copy moving directly between two of the central figures in Dickens's life, with the presentation relationship physically documented in the book and the historical record.Dickens Library Online records this:This is copy K4 / V13.09 / C031.05, appearing in Sotheran's valuation and Charles Dickens Jr.'s catalogue. Sotheran specifically calls this one "Presentation copy."The posthumous Gadshill library label dated June 1870.From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870; major trade descriptions connect these labels with the later Sotheran dispersal of Dickens's library, particularly the 1878 sale organized with Dickens's son.That Yates presumably acquired it at the Gadshill sale is presently inference rather than provenance. The provenance can only assert his ownership post 1878.Full Provenance:Inscribed presentation copy gifted to Charles Dickens from John Forster.Original bookplate of Charles Dickens.Original posthumous Gadshill library labels dated June 1870.This book appears in the Sotheran, Charles Dickens Junior records. Catalogued as 'Presentation Copy'. See picture 23.This is copy K4 / V13.09 / C031.05, appearing in Sotheran's valuation and Charles Dickens Jr.'s catalogue. Sotheran specifically calls this one "Presentation copy."Edmund Yates bookplates.Old pencil record pricing at $135.Hallmark Estate in Kansas City through local estate sale June 2025, without sale documentation, local show without catalog record or receipt beyond the yellow stub receipt at the local sale that was discarded. Purchased from that buyer.For the record:Dickens Library Online records two 1858 two-volume sets of Forster's Historical and Biographical Essays in Dickens's library:* One is K4 / V13.09 / C031.05, appearing in Sotheran's valuation and Charles Dickens Jr.'s catalogue. Sotheran specifically calls this one "Presentation copy."* The other is K3 / S047.4e / V15.09 / C031.04, appearing in Sotheran, Stonehouse, and Dickens Jr. Stonehouse describes it only as "From the Author." More importantly, this copy is catalogued as "post 8vo., cloth."This is copy k4.K4 appears in Henry Sotheran's manuscript valuation, circa 1871, and in Charles Dickens Jr.'s catalogue. Dickens Library Online gives the exact references as V13.09 and C031.05, Dickens Jr. location K4, and Sotheran valuation location "Library, bookcases facing door, item 40"; Sotheran's description is "Presentation copy."The June 1870 is a library dispersal label, not a sale bookplate. Dickens Library Online explains that the later Sotheran catalogue appeared in 1878. The label itself is dated June 1870; that does not mean Dickens's library was auctioned in June 1870.Historical and Biographical Essays.By John Forster.First Edition.Printed in 1858.Complete in 2 volume.Contents:volume I, essays on the Grand Remonstrance, the Plantagenets and Tudors, and the Civil Wars/Oliver Cromwell;volume II treats Daniel Defoe, Richard Steele, Charles Churchill, and Samuel Foote.First Edition.The bindings are original.Bound in leather.These are the original Victorian bindings.Original Victorian gilt-leather bindings, in my judgment; at minimum contemporary or near-contemporary antiquarian custom leather bindings.Intricately gilded bindings.This set is in good condition.External chipping at the heads of the spines.Covers attached.Complete, including the foldout rear v.…