A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
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![Faithfully yours Charles Dickens [facsimile].](jpegs/25354.jpg)
Faithfully yours Charles Dickens [facsimile].
Miss. M. Gillies. J.C. Armytage.
Published by Smith, Elder & Co. 65, Cornhill. [n.d. c.1844.]
Stipple. 224 x 145mm. 8¾ x 5¾".
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) the English writer, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and repsponsible for some of the English literature's most iconic novels and characters. After Margaret Gillies (1803-1887) and engraved by James Charles Armytage (1820-1897) for an 1844 publication "A New Spirit of the Age".
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25354] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
Miss. M. Gillies. J.C. Armytage.
Published by Smith, Elder & Co. 65, Cornhill. [n.d. c.1844.]
Stipple. 224 x 145mm. 8¾ x 5¾".
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) the English writer, regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period and repsponsible for some of the English literature's most iconic novels and characters. After Margaret Gillies (1803-1887) and engraved by James Charles Armytage (1820-1897) for an 1844 publication "A New Spirit of the Age".
Ex Collection: R. Hobson of Hove.
[Ref: 25354] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)
![Very truly yours Southwood Smith [facsimile handwriting].](jpegs/43392.jpg)
Very truly yours Southwood Smith [facsimile handwriting].
Miss M. Gillies. J.C. Armytage.
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill.
Stipple engraving on india. 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5¼") very large margins. Backing paper spotted.
Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861), physician and sanitary reformer. Despite his belief in the miasma theory his reports on quarantine (1845), cholera (1850), yellow fever (1852), and on the results of sanitary improvement (1854) were of international importance. However he is best known for his highly controversial public dissection of Jeremy Bentham in 1832 and his correspondence with Charles Dickens.
[Ref: 43392] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Miss M. Gillies. J.C. Armytage.
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill.
Stipple engraving on india. 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5¼") very large margins. Backing paper spotted.
Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861), physician and sanitary reformer. Despite his belief in the miasma theory his reports on quarantine (1845), cholera (1850), yellow fever (1852), and on the results of sanitary improvement (1854) were of international importance. However he is best known for his highly controversial public dissection of Jeremy Bentham in 1832 and his correspondence with Charles Dickens.
[Ref: 43392] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
![Very truly yours Southwood Smith [facsimile handwriting].](jpegs/43393.jpg)
Very truly yours Southwood Smith [facsimile handwriting].
Miss M. Gillies. J.C. Armytage.
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill.
Fine stipple engraving on steel. 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5¼") large margins.
Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861), physician and sanitary reformer. Despite his belief in the miasma theory his reports on quarantine (1845), cholera (1850), yellow fever (1852), and on the results of sanitary improvement (1854) were of international importance. However he is best known for his highly controversial public dissection of Jeremy Bentham in 1832 and his correspondence with Charles Dickens, wrote the life & letters of Dickens.
[Ref: 43393] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
Miss M. Gillies. J.C. Armytage.
Published by Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill.
Fine stipple engraving on steel. 210 x 130mm (8¼ x 5¼") large margins.
Thomas Southwood Smith (1788-1861), physician and sanitary reformer. Despite his belief in the miasma theory his reports on quarantine (1845), cholera (1850), yellow fever (1852), and on the results of sanitary improvement (1854) were of international importance. However he is best known for his highly controversial public dissection of Jeremy Bentham in 1832 and his correspondence with Charles Dickens, wrote the life & letters of Dickens.
[Ref: 43393] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)
![W.m Wordsworth [facsimile signature].](jpegs/39303.jpg)
W.m Wordsworth [facsimile signature].
Painted by Miss Margaret Gillies. Engraved by Edward M.c Innes.
London Published Aug.t 6 1841 by F.G. Moon, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 20, Threadneedle Street.
Rare mezzotint on india, private plate. 340 x 230mm (13½ x 9"); very large margins.
A seated portrait of William Wordsworth born 7 April 1770 (1770-1850), before an arched window. The painter, Margaret Gillies (1803-87), a Scottish painter known for her portraits of Wordsworth & Charles Dickens. For many years she lived with Thomas Southwood Smith, the physician who dissected Jeremy Bentham in 1832: Bentham's 'auto-con' (the box holding his preserved body) lived with them until 1850 when it was acquired by University College London.
[Ref: 39303] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)
Painted by Miss Margaret Gillies. Engraved by Edward M.c Innes.
London Published Aug.t 6 1841 by F.G. Moon, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 20, Threadneedle Street.
Rare mezzotint on india, private plate. 340 x 230mm (13½ x 9"); very large margins.
A seated portrait of William Wordsworth born 7 April 1770 (1770-1850), before an arched window. The painter, Margaret Gillies (1803-87), a Scottish painter known for her portraits of Wordsworth & Charles Dickens. For many years she lived with Thomas Southwood Smith, the physician who dissected Jeremy Bentham in 1832: Bentham's 'auto-con' (the box holding his preserved body) lived with them until 1850 when it was acquired by University College London.
[Ref: 39303] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)