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the great triumph of the nonesuch press First Nonesuch edition, number 286 of 877 sets with an original plate. The multicoloured cloth bindings are here preserved in uniformly fresh condition, very scarce and desirable thus. The present set includes the steel plate entitled “The Children at their cousin’s grave” by Phiz, which originally appeared in Nicholas Nickleby . Also included is a proof pull and a letter of authentication from Chapman and Hall signed by deputy chairman Arthur Waugh, and numbered 286. 25 volumes, large octavo. Original buckram in various colours, black morocco spine labels, top edges gilt on the rough, others untrimmed. Including Nonesuch Dickensiana . Illustrated throughout after the original plates; with original wood-engraved plate. £12,500 [160066] 47 DULAC, Edmund (illus.) Stories from the Arabian Nights. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1907 Signed limited edition, number 302 of 350 copies numbered and signed by the artist. It was this book that first announced Dulac’s status as a popular artist, confirming him as “a direct challenger in the illustrated gift book market to the work of Arthur Rackham . . . The exotic stories he illustrated struck a new chord in Dulac. They allowed him to enlarge his
spoke approvingly in American Notes . Like Dickens, he was fascinated by mesmerism. If the final scribbled word of the letter is indeed “party”, Dickens’s assertion that there would be none was belied by events, as Earle recalled in a letter to his sister sent a day or two later, printed in full by Sanborn. Earle met Dickens, his wife, Georgina Hogarth, “Mr. Prescott, of Boston ... son of our historian of Mexico”, Mrs Macready, wife of the actor, and George Sumner, the brother of Charles. Dinner was held up until the arrival of the venerable figure of Samuel Rogers, “his general appearance much resembling the late John Quincy Adams”. The American ambassador sent his regrets, being otherwise engaged at the annual speech day at Harrow school. “At our dinner there was no learned or literary talk, but Dickens’s readiness and fund of anecdote were always at hand to fill any gap in the conversation.” Single sheet, mounted, glazed, and framed, together with an engraved portrait of Dickens. ¶ Not in the Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens . F. B. Sanborn, ed., Memoirs of Pliny Earle, M.D.: with extracts from his diary and letters (1830–1892) and selections from his professional writings (1839–1891) , 1898. £3,000 [135028] 46 DICKENS, Charles. The Nonesuch Dickens. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1937–39
skill at caricature, and at the same time to sharpen his miniaturist’s technique and to develop his lyrical sense of tone and composition. The sources he turned to were Japanese prints, which he had studied in his youth, with their flat colour and asymetry,
and the high detail and colour of Indian and Persian miniatures” ( ODNB ). Quarto. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt with blue highlights, dark green endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 49 other plates tipped-in on dark green paper, all with captioned tissue-guards. Some light soiling to vellum, silk ties absent as usual, some very light foxing. A very good copy. ¶ £2,750 [131648] 48 DUNANT, Jean Henry. Un souvenir de Solferino. Geneva: Jules-Guillaume Fick, 1862 the foundation of the red cross First edition of Dunant’s account of the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino, describing the chaotic circumstances and developing the idea of a neutral organization to provide care to wounded soldiers. Privately printed at Dunant’s expense and distributed to leading European political and military figures, the report was instrumental in the establishment of the Red Cross the following year. “Dunant, a Swiss philanthropist, must have been aware of Florence Nightingale’s work in the Crimea, for it was what he read of the treatment of the sick and wounded in that war that drove him to the seat of the war in Italy between the French and the Austrians in 1859. He was present at the battle of Solferino, where the casualties were appalling, totalling nearly 40,000 on both sides. The treatment of the wounded was worse
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than callous: it was virtually non-existent. Dunant’s account of the state of affairs, disarmingly entitled A Souvenir of Solferino , produced almost immediate results. An unofficial international conference met in Geneva in October 1863, and in the following year the Swiss Government called for an official conference at which the Geneva Convention was drawn up and signed on 22 August 1864. This provided for the humane treatment of the sick and the wounded, and the proper treatment of prisoners of war and the civilian population. After hesitation on the part of some governments, including the British, and as the result of subsequent conferences, the Convention as it now stands was signed in 1906 by the governments of every civilized country in the world. Dunant was the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901” ( PMM ). Tall octavo (273 × 174 mm). Early 20th-century green quarter calf by Arne Asper of Geneva, marbled sides and endpapers, original wrappers bound in. Double-page coloured plan of the battle. With the bookplate of Edmond Cheneviere (1862–1932), mayor of Cologny, Geneva from 1899 to 1910. Sunned, repairs to wrappers, contents lightly toned; a very good copy. ¶ Garrison-Morton 2166; Heirs of Hippocrates 1039; Printing and the Mind of Man 350. £7,500 [158087]
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45 DICKENS, Charles. Autograph letter signed to the American physician, Pliny Earle. [London:] 1 Devonshire Terrace, 27 June 1849 dickens invites an american doctor to a star- spangled dinner An invitation to dinner, at a time when Dickens was in the throes of composition of David Copperfield : “1 Devonshire Terrace, Twenty Seventh June 1849. Dear Sir, You will give Mrs Dickens and myself great pleasure if you will come and dine here on Thursday the fifth of July at a quarter past six. We shall have no party[?]. Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens. Dr. Pliny Earle.” Pliny Earle II, MD (1809–1892) was an American physician, psychiatrist, and poet. An American pioneer in humane psychiatry, Earle had travelled widely in Europe, visiting insane hospitals. In the 1840s, he served as resident physician at both the Frankford, Pennsylvania, and Bloomingdale, New York, asylums. He was a proponent of the enlightened method of “moral treatment”, of which Dickens
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