An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE Of ILLUMINATED And Other MANUSCRIPTS, Incunabula and Early Printed Books, First Editions of Famous Authors, Color Plate Books, Autograph Letters, Including an Early and Important Unpublished Letter of Charles Dickens... On Sale by Myers & Co. (Albert Myers) 102 New Bond Street, London, W.1 Number 277. November, 1930
London: Printed by Robert Stockwell, Baden Place, Crosby Row, Borough, S.E.1.; and pub. by Myers & Co., 102, New Bond Street, London, W.1. 1930. 1st Printing. 96 pp [including wrappers]. Carbon of TL, from Myers & Co, to Comte de Suzannet laid-in. Facsimile. Illustrated with a few inserted plates on coated paper. 8vo. 9-5/8" x 7-1/4". Original publisher's printed paper wrappers. General wear & age-toning. Some light foxing. A VG copy. Item #52072
Item 121 offers, at £200, a significant, and early [ca 1837], letter from Dickens to the editor of the Brighton Guardian, addressing, in the 3rd person, some percieved liberties in Bentley's Miscellany publishing of a piece entitled "Smoke".
The firm's letter to Comte de Suzanette thanks him for the purchase of a Kipling item, and respectfully declines the Comte's offer of £180 for the Dickens letter [cf Pilgrim Edition of Dickens Letters, v1, p. 311].
Price: $125.00