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Valuations for insurance or probate can be undertaken anywhere, by arrangement. A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE is available for Jarndyce Catalogues for those who do not regularly purchase. Please send £20.00 (£30.00 / U.S.$55.00 overseas, airmail) for four issues, specifying the catalogues you would like to receive. THE DICKENS CATALOGUE ISBN: 978 1 900718-86-8 Price £10.00 Covers: Image adapted from Item 845. Contents page image adapted from Item 816. _____________________________________________________________ Brian Lake Janet Nassau CONTENTS Items Charles Dickens Autograph Letters, Signed Cheques, &c. 1 - 27 Collected Editions 28 - 47 Dinner at Poplar Walk 48 - 49 Library of Fiction 50 - 52 Sketches by Boz 53 - 77 Sunday Under Three Heads 78 - 82 The Strange Gentleman 83 - 86 Village Coquettes 87 - 91 Pickwick Papers 92 - 160 Is She His Wife? 161 - 162 Sketches of Young ... Couples, &c. 163 - 170 Oliver Twist 171 - 200 Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi 201 - 202 Nicholas Nickleby 203 - 234 Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman 235 - 245 Sergeant Bell 246 Master Humphrey's Clock 247 - 258 Old Curiosity Shop 259 - 281 Barnaby Rudge 282 - 300 Pic Nic Papers 301 - 302 Report of the Dinner ... in Boston 303 American Notes 304 - 312 Christmas Books 313 - 384 Martin Chuzzlewit 385 - 416 Evenings of a Working Man 417 - 418 Pictures from Italy 419 - 424 Dombey & Son 425 - 452 David Copperfield 453 - 471 To Be Read at Dusk 472 Child's History of England 473 - 475 Bleak House 476 - 489 Hard Times 490 - 500 Speech .. Administrative Reform Assoc. 501 Little Dorrit 502 - 516 The Poor Traveller, &c. 517 - 519 Speech at ... Hospital for Sick Children 520 To see images of items not already illustrated Tale of Two Cities 521 - 533 in this catalogue, please contact us. Hunted Down 534 - 537 A Curious Dance 538 - 539 Items Great Expectations 540 - 556 Uncommercial Traveller 557 - 562 Life of Our Lord 668 - 672 In Memoriam 563 Review (of Lord Londonderry’s letter) 673 Our Mutual Friend 564 - 578 Journalism 674 - 675 Legends & Lyrics 579 Selections 676 - 691 The Charles Dickens Dinner 580 Birthday Book, Calendar, Notebook & Diary 692 - 695 Tickets to Readings by Charles Dickens 581 - 587 Periodicals edited by Dickens 696 - 756 Readings & Dickens as a Reader 588 - 598 Letters of Charles Dickens 757 - 785 George Silverman’s Explanation 599 General Illustrations, &c. 786 - 816 Address at the Birmingham ... Institute 600 Dickens’s Library, Art Collection, House &c. 817 - 829 Edwin Drood 601 - 647 Manuscript & Autograph material Collected Speeches 648 - 656 relating to Dickens 830 - 843 A Child's Dream of a Star 657 Portraits & Photographs of Dickens 844 - 877 A Pottery Story 658 - 659 Plaques & Bust 878 - 880 The Lamplighter 660 Portraits of Dickens’s Illustrators & Friends 881 - 886 Mudfog Papers 661 - 662 Ephemera - including adverts, music, Plays, Poems & Verses 663 - 664 play programmes, postcards ... 887 - 964 Collected Papers 665 - 666 Biography, Criticism & Dickensiana 965 - 1344 Gone Astray 667 Bibliography, Exhibition Catalogues &c. 1345 - 1406 Abbreviations used in this catalogue: C&H = Chapman & Hall; B&E = Bradbury & Evans; b.f.t.p. = bound from the parts AUTOGRAPH LETTERS _____________________________________________________________ CHARLES DICKENS: AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, SIGNED CHEQUES, &c. SHEDDING LUSTRE 1. ALS to 'My dear Ainsworth'. Furnival's Inn, Thursday morning. 'Are you not going to "shed a lustre" &c. &c. on the miscellany this month? I have been looking anxiously forward to receiving your paper...' 15 lines on 1p. 8vo sheet, laid down on card. A well-preserved early ALS, with Dickens's signature completed with his customary exaggerated flourish. ¶Not in Pilgrim Letters. To his friend and fellow author William Harrison Ainsworth. Written from Furnival's Inn, Dickens's place of residence from 1834 until the early spring of 1837, when he moved into Doughty Street. Undated other than 'Thursday Morning', but almost certainly early 1837, when Dickens was awaiting Ainsworth's contribution to the April edition of Bentley's Miscellany. Ainsworth's 'Our Song of the Month', a poem for April Fools' Day set to music, was the author's first writing for Bentley's Miscellany. It appears that Ainsworth often left editors despairing of when they might receive their copy. In a letter to John Forster of November 1838, Dickens describes Ainsworth as 'our procrastinating friend' (Pilgrim Letters I p460n), and earlier in the year had informed Forster that Ainsworth was badly behindhand with Jack Sheppard and that the publisher was 'desperately savage with Ainsworth's delay'. Ainsworth himself took over the editorship of Bentley's Miscellany after Dickens vacated the position in 1839. [1837?] £3,800 † 2. ALS to William Empson from Devonshire House, Thursday April the Fifteenth. 15 lines on 1p. ‘I have asked Lord Jeffrey in redemption of a pledge of his, to dine with me on Monday week the Twenty Sixth ... May I ask you to take counsel together, and act accordingly ...’. ¶Not in Pilgrim Letters. William Empson was Francis, Lord Jeffrey’s son-in-law and followed him as editor of the Edinburgh Review. Other guests on that night included Samuel Rogers, Albany Fonblanque, Bulwer Lytton and Sydney Smith, with Maclise unable to attend. (Pilgrim Letters XII addenda, p.575.) A contemporary ink note on verso records that it is the autograph of the writer of Nic. Nickleby, 1841. Signs along margins of removal from a frame. [1841] £1,500 † 3. Signed Cheque. Drawn on Messrs. Coutts & Compy, dated and filled in, in another hand, for six pounds payable to the Misses Rosalind and Marianne Elton. 24th. June, 1844. Dickens adds ‘Elton Fund Account’ below his signature. TOGETHER WITH: General Theatrical Fund Association receipt for sub- scription signed in the autograph of E.W. Elton as Treasurer (in which capacity Dickens had known him). ¶Edward William Elt, known as Elton, born in 1794, became an actor in 1823; whilst returning by sea from Edinburgh Theatre Royal to Hull, he was drowned when the ‘Pegasus’ struck a rock, 19th July 1843, leaving six daughters and a son. At a meeting at the Freemasons’ Tavern, Dickens was appointed Chairman of a Committee to raise funds for the benefit of the orphan children; Dickens writes to Angela Burdett Coutts, 26th July, 1843: ‘... I assure you that their condition is melancholy and desolate beyond all painting’. 1844 £600 † SIGNED BY DICKENS’S COMPANY 4. TWELVE SIGNATURES of Charles Dickens, and prominent members of the amateur dramatics company with which the author regularly staged charity and benefit performances: Mark Lemon, George Cruikshank, John Leech, Frank Stone, Augustus Egg, Frederick Dickens & Augustus N. Dickens (brothers of Charles), Douglas Jerrold, John Forster, G.H. Lewes, and Leonora Wigan. Two adjacent leaves extracted from an album (13 x 22cm), one with eleven bold autograph signatures in a single column, the other with one autograph signature and three relevant newspaper cuttings. Mounted in a period frame. ¶This collection of signatures almost certainly dates from July 1847, and the two benefit performances given by Dickens and his company for Leigh Hunt and John Poole. The attached newspaper articles refer to the two performances given in Manchester and Liverpool towards the end of July, which managed to accrue the sum of 400 guineas for impoverished writers (“Dickens had his heart set on £500, and was disappointed because he did not get it ...”). Dickens was the driving force behind the performances, stage managing Jonson’s play Every Man in His Humour, and playing the part of Captain Bobadil to great acclaim. The exacting schedule