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Lot 200
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
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Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$600 -
900
Price Realized
$960
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Lot Description
[Literature] (Dickens, Charles). Group of 3 First Editions
(Caswall, Edward, attributed to)
Sketches of Young Ladies...
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and five engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz). Publisher's blue-green pictorial paper-covered boards, spine repaired, boards moderately worn; pale yellow endpapers; title-page in facsimile; armorial book-plate of George Jefferson Mersereau on front paste-down; light foxing to plates.
Together with:
(Dickens, Charles)
Sketches of Young Gentlemen. Dedicated to the Young Ladies
London: Chapman and Hall, 1838. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated with an engraved title-page and five engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Publisher's blue-green pictorial paper-covered boards, sometime rebacked, boards moderately soiled and worn; all edges trimmed; yellow-coated endpapers; same armorial book-plate on front paste-down; foxing to plates. Smith II, 1
Together with:
(Dickens, Charles)
Sketches of Young Couples...
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and five engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Publisher's blue-green pictorial paper-covered boards, rebacked, boards moderately worn and soiled; all edges trimmed; pale yellow endpapers; same armorial book-plate on front paste-down, contemporary ownership signature on same; foxing to plates. Smith II, 2
Together in green cloth folding case.
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