BAYNTUN (RIVIERE), binders. DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall 1837. 8vo, 218 x 314 x 60mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 2 3/8in.), A JEWELLED BINDING WITH 108 (OF 110) COLORED STONES, green levant morocco, covers with double gilt-ruled border, UPPER COVER SET WITH A CIRCULAR PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF DICKENS IN HIS LATER YEARS, 41mm. (1 1/2in.) diam. within a frame of small pearls, the central panel with an elaborate design of gold-tooled acanthus, framed by an onlaid and gilt-dotted red morocco strip set with stones, lower cover with large gilt central panel; spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered on two salmon morocco labels, a repeated gilt panel in the rest; board edges and turn-ins gilt, stamp-signed on upper turn-in: "Bound by Bayntun (Riviere). Bath. England," green watered silk linings, g.e., quarter maroon morocco box. FIRST EDITION in book form, engraved title and plates by R. Seymour, R.W. Buss and H.K. Browne, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 8 watercolor drawings of characters in the novel in the style of J. Clayton Clarke ("Kyd"), 11 handcolored engraved plates with captions, many original plates in two states. Provenance : Stanton C. Christensen, bookplate (sale, Christie's New York, 8 December 1989, lot 109).
BAYNTUN (RIVIERE), binders. DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall 1837. 8vo, 218 x 314 x 60mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 2 3/8in.), A JEWELLED BINDING WITH 108 (OF 110) COLORED STONES, green levant morocco, covers with double gilt-ruled border, UPPER COVER SET WITH A CIRCULAR PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF DICKENS IN HIS LATER YEARS, 41mm. (1 1/2in.) diam. within a frame of small pearls, the central panel with an elaborate design of gold-tooled acanthus, framed by an onlaid and gilt-dotted red morocco strip set with stones, lower cover with large gilt central panel; spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered on two salmon morocco labels, a repeated gilt panel in the rest; board edges and turn-ins gilt, stamp-signed on upper turn-in: "Bound by Bayntun (Riviere). Bath. England," green watered silk linings, g.e., quarter maroon morocco box. FIRST EDITION in book form, engraved title and plates by R. Seymour, R.W. Buss and H.K. Browne, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 8 watercolor drawings of characters in the novel in the style of J. Clayton Clarke ("Kyd"), 11 handcolored engraved plates with captions, many original plates in two states. Provenance : Stanton C. Christensen, bookplate (sale, Christie's New York, 8 December 1989, lot 109).
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