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Milan, the Marx-Lenin Institute in Moscow, The International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, and the Karl Marx Haus (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung) in Trier. 6 numbers, bound in a volume of the first 80 numbers of La Emancipación , beginning with number 1 (19 June 1871). Folio (410 × 475 mm). Contemporary brown cloth-backed marbled paper boards, spine unlettered, edges sprinkled red. Head of front joint split, rear joint slightly rubbed with some wear. Tax stamp to final few numbers, occasional marking, repair to first leaf obscuring text, bound without number 67; withal in very good condition. ¶ Andréas, Le Manifeste Communiste de Marx et Engels 74. £47,500 [135988] 109 MAYHEW, Augustus. Paved with Gold. Or the Romance and Reality of the London Streets. London: Chapman and Hall, 1858 His most significant work First edition in book form, first published in 13 parts from March 1857 to April 1858. This is considered Mayhew’s most significant work, and was the result of a collaborative venture with his brother, the social reformer Henry Mayhew. “Between 1849 and 1852 Augustus assisted Henry in the investigations both for the ‘Labour and the poor’ series in the Morning Chronicle and the subsequent London Labour and the London Poor . He served as one of Henry’s stenographers when Henry interviewed various workers and street sellers, but Augustus did some interviews himself and also wrote them up, in particular the section on crossing-sweepers . . . These interviews led to his best novel, Paved with Gold , or , The Romance and Reality of the London Streets , in 1858, which began as a joint project with Henry but which, after four numbers, was Augustus’s alone” ( ODNB ).
Binding variants are known, including an issue in brown cloth, without established priority. Octavo. Original green pebbled cloth, spine lettered and illustrated in gilt, covers panelled in blind, brown endpapers, edges uncut. Vignette title page, 25 engraved plates, all by Browne, two with tissue guards laid-in (pp. 118, 253). Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, ownership stamp to front free endpaper, ownership inscription to frontispiece recto, Bone & Son of London binder’s ticket to rear pastedown. Spine ends and corners lightly worn, boards a little scuffed and marked, inner hinges cracked but firm, some offsetting from plates as usual, a few small tears to fore edge of plate before p. 146, overall a very good copy. ¶ Wolff 4683b. Valerie Brown Lester, Phiz: The Man Who Drew Dickens, Chatto & Windus, 2004. £300 [118598] 110 MELBOURNE, William Lamb, Viscount. Essay on the Progressive Improvement of Mankind. London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1799 First edition of the future prime minister’s first work, privately printed when he was just nineteen. “In his final year [at Trinity College, Cambridge], he won a college prize and was called upon to declaim, on any subject he chose, in the chapel at Trinity. He selected ‘The Progressive Improvements of Mankind’, a good Whig theme which would have caused a wry smile among those Radicals who were to complain in later years about Melbourne’s stubborn resistance to progress of any kind” (Ziegler). It is uncommon, with ESTC locating eight copies. Quarto (272 × 214 mm). 20th-century red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the 19th-century bookplate of the Earl of Cowper; early notation of author’s identity on the title page. Cloth rubbed, inner hinges splitting at head, endpapers spotted, but contents clean. A very good copy. ¶ ESTC T33406. Philip Ziegler, Melbourne: A Biography , Faber, 2013. £850 [132833]
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