CHARLES DICKENS ~~ THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP ~~ IN THE PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION BINDING OF FULL POLISHED CALF == BOLDLY INSCRIBED TO: ''WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR FROM HIS HEARTY FRIEND, CHARLES DICKENS''

CHARLES DICKENS

Verlag: Chapman and Hall, 1841

Beschreibung

DICKENS, CHARLES. (1812-1870). English novelist of the Victorian era; his numerous beloved works include: A Christmas Carol , A Tale of Two Cities Barnaby Rudge , Bleak House , David Copperfield , Dombey and Son , Great Expectations , Martin Chuzzlewit , Nicholas Nickleby , Oliver Twist , The Old Curiosity Shop , and The Pickwick Papers . His book: THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. London: [Bradbury and Evans for] Chapman and Hall, 1841. Quired in 6s (251 x 167 mm). Dedication leaf to Samuel Rogers (not called for by Smith, but that in vol.1 of Master Humphrey's Clock from which this is separately issued). Illustrations in text by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne ["Phiz"]. Gilt-ruled on covers, gilt-decorated on spine, deep green/black and red morocco lettering pieces, all edges gilt, ink stamp of Chapman and Hall on front free endpaper and of the binder Hayday on rear free endpaper. Housed in a vintage custom full leather embossed slip case, of excellent quality. BOLDLY INSCRIBED TO: WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR FROM HIS HEARTY FRIEND, CHARLES DICKENS , ON THE TITLE PAGE. THIS PRESENTATION IS ONE OF EXTRAORDINARY ASSOCIATIONS, one made even more so when one considers Landor (1775 - 1864) was 37 years Dickens senior, and then further inscribed by Landor to his son, opposite the title page, Arnold Savage Landor / from Babbo [a family nickname]. Landor was an immediate admirer of Dickens works. In April 1839, before Dickens was introduced to Landor by John Forster, [both Landor s and Dickens biographer, literary advisor and inner circle friend], Landor wrote to Forster, Tell Dickens he has drawn from me more tears and more smiles than are remaining to me for all the rest of the world, real or ideal. Dickens and Landor first met in January 1840, through Forster, at Lady Blessington s literary salon. On February 10, 1840, Landor wrote to his friend G.P.R. James: In town I made a new acquaintance -- is a really popular, and what is much better, truly extraordinary man the author of Nicholas Nickleby. He comes on Saturday to spend a few days with me at Bath, and on Monday I have invited my elite of beauty (the Paynters) to meet him How I wish you could too! …Dickens is really a good as well as a delightful man. It is rarely that two such persons meet, as you and he nor in any other society could I easily be the least of three. In 1869, a year before his death, Dickens wrote to Forster: Landor s ghost goes along the silent streets before me. Forster wrote it was the first meeting in Bath on February 7, 1840, that there came into the novelist s mind the first stirrings of imagination that eventually took form as Little Nell who became to Landor as one who had really lived and died. Dickens on May 9, 1869, in a letter to Forster, confirmed what Landor had often previously told friends that it was at Landor s lodgings in Bath that Dickens first thought of Nell. Landor later declared that he had never in his life regretted anything so much as having failed to buy the house and burn it to the ground, so that no meaner association should ever desecrate the birthplace of Nell. It was during this first trip that Rose Paynter, Landor s elite of beauty and best friend in Bath, introduced Dickens to the original of Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop , a frightful little dwarf named Prior, who let donkeys on hire and used a heavy stick impartially on his wife and donkeys. On September 13, 1840, in a letter to John Forster, Dickens determined he wanted to separate and publish The Old Curiosity Shop from Master Humphrey s Clock, although it wasn t until April 20, 1841, in a letter to his dear friend Miss Angela Burdett Coutts [Coutts Bank family] that he had given his binder instructions to put The Old Curiosity Shop in one Volume. Since The Old Curiosity Shop (40 weekly numbers published from April 25, 1840 to February 6, 1841) was a part of Master Humphrey s Clock, Dickens had to add sections to make it a viable separate novel. On February 11, 1841, Dickens as. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 221935

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Titel: CHARLES DICKENS ~~ THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP ~~...

Verlag: Chapman and Hall

Erscheinungsdatum: 1841

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition