Description: Offered here is an extremely rare two volume set: Dombey And Son, by Charles Dickens, published monthly by Bradbury And Evans (London) until 1848, 1st edition/ 1st state [with all points], illustrated with 52 plates by H. K. Browne [usually there are only 40] and EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 18 original Kyd watercolors, 6" x 9"; 624pp. total [+ ALL 19 of the original paper wrappers, with most still containing many advertisements/ illustrated fold-outs, etc., bound-in the rear of the two volumes. Leather & marble boards need restoration (front board of Volume One now separated and front board of Volume Two barely holding on/ spine loss), some internal edge wear (with a small tear or two/ a few chipped or creased corners), some light to moderate foxing/ spotting (esp. some Browne plates/ Kyd plates are clean), EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED, with original paper wrappers bound-in-- a fine set worthy of some TLC. First edition, bound from the original monthly parts as first published from September 1846 to March 1848. Dombey and Son is "now recognized as one of the greatest of all his works. It is also the first one to have an explicitly contemporary setting" (ODNB). The novel is further noted for containing "the first published example of a so-called dark plate, which was created by a machine process that tinted the etched plate and heightened its black-and-white contrast. The one dark plate in Dombey and Son is "On the Dark Road", p. 547. The smooth blending of light and shadow on this illustration vividly contrasts it with the other illustrations in the novel and is a fine example of the dark plate process" (Smith). The technique was later put to use for ten plates in Bleak House and eight in Little Dorrit. JOSEPH CLAYTON CLARK (1857— 1937), who worked under the pseudonym "Kyd", was a British artist best known for his illustrations of characters from the novels of Charles Dickens. The artwork was published in magazines or sold as watercolor paintings, rather than included in an edition of the novels. Clark's illustrations from Dickens first appeared in 1887 in Fleet Street Magazine, with two published collections appearing shortly after as The Characters of Charles Dickens (1889) and Some Well Known Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens (1892). Kyd's representations from the works of Dickens owe much to the original illustrations of Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz') and Robert Seymour (the first illustrator of The Pickwick Papers, one of Clark's most popular themes), while the modeling of the characters seems to be based on Phiz's later designs from the 1870s. Early in the twentieth century five sets of postcards based on his Dickens drawings were published, as well as seven sets of non-Dickensian comic cards. From 1927 Clark earned his living from watercolor sketches, mainly of Dickens' characters, which he sold to and through the London book trade. Frederic G. Kitton referred to Clark in his book Dickens and His Illustrators (1890), by which time Clark's watercolors were already being bought by major Dickens collectors. The auction of the Dickens collection of F W Cosens FSA of Clapham Park, held at Christie's on 17 May 1890, sold a collection of 241 of Clark's Dickens watercolors, and Tom Wilson, at the time the foremost collector of Dickens, owned 331 of Clark's drawings.
Price: 4800 USD
Location: Georgetown, Massachusetts
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: Charles Dickens
Topic: Literature
Subject: Literature & Fiction
