Illustrated Edition. Two Volumes Complete in One. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, n.d. [1857]. Original half calf with marbled boards, endpapers, and page edges. First American illustrated octavo edition. The first Peterson volume of LITTLE DORRIT (in fact the first in book form anywhere) was Vol I of the two-volume duodecimo.....
A Comic Opera. In Two Acts. The Music by John Hullah. London: Richard Bentley, 1836. Bound in full tan calf with gilt paneled spine and leather labels, all page edges gilt. First Edition of Dickens's first play to be published (produced on the stage about two months after his "The.....
[a "probably unique" binding] being the Occupation of His Scanty Leisure: with a Preface relative to the Author, by Charles Dickens. London: T.C. Newby, 1844. 3 pp ads. Original blind-stamped olive green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Overs was a carpenter who "had shown some literary ability" [Eckel].....
In: THE LIBRARY OF FICTION, or Family Story Teller; consisting of Original Tales, Essays, and Sketches of Character. With Fourteen Illustrations [in each volume]. Vol. I [& II]. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836/1837. Bound in contemporary half calf with marbled boards. First Edition in book form. Chapman & Hall's monthly.....
With Introductions and Biographical Notices. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845. Original full dark brown morocco elaborately decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition, first printing (with the imprint of Metcalf and Company on the copyright page, rather than that of T.K. & P.G. Collins). This is Longfellow's massive.....
