Pamphlets (Various)
Various
*
1848-50
8vo.,
contemporary half calf over marbled boards
n/a
1
English
n/a
V01.01; C067.04; PN56-100
A*
Library, shelving left of door, item 01
private collection
An additional ninth volume of pamphlets not listed in Stonehouse but included in Sotheran's Piccadilly Notes issue 56 (December 2010), for sale at £17,500.
A Collection of Pamphlets from the Library at Gadshill. Various publishers 1848-1850.
8vo., different sizes, 15 pamphlets bound together in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, sometime rebacked preserving original label, preserved in morocco backed box, lettered in gilt on spine. Marginal notes slightly cropped when bound, otherwise in very good condition.
A significant collection of works on social problems and reform, including:
1) David Falconer, The Agricultural Crisis: Or Landlord's Duties and Tenant's Rights, 1850 (inscribed to Dickens);
2) Ralph Barnes Grindrod, The Slaves of the Needle;
3) Wm. Gore Ouseley, Notes on the Slave Trade, 1850 (inscribed to Dickens);
4) A letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Wood, bt., M.P. etc. etc. etc. chancellor of the exchequer, on the assessed taxes, 1850;
5) Richard Dawes, Observations on the working of the government scheme of education and on school inspection, 1849;
6) First Annual Report of the Williams Secular School, 1850;
7) Richard Dawes, Hints on an improved and self-paying system of national education (1848), third edition;
8) Report presented at the thirteenth annual general meeting of The Liverpool Domestic Mission Society, 1850;
9) [Mary Carpenter], Ragged schools: their principles and modes of operation, 1850;
10) An account of the King's Somborne School [1849] (frequent marginal emphases in pencil);
11) John Dufton, The Prison and the School, 1848 (substantially annotated in pencil in Dickens's hand);
12) E.P. Rowsell, An Essay on Capital Punishment, 1848 (inscribed to Dickens);
13) Alexander Maconochie, The Principles of punishment, 1850;
14) Report of the Committee of Vistors of the lunatic asylum for North and East Ridings of Yorkshire, 1850;
15) E. Tighe Gregory, Fraternity, 1848;
From the Library of Charles Dickens with his bookplate and the posthumous Gadshill Library label.
8vo., different sizes, 15 pamphlets bound together in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, sometime rebacked preserving original label, preserved in morocco backed box, lettered in gilt on spine. Marginal notes slightly cropped when bound, otherwise in very good condition.
A significant collection of works on social problems and reform, including:
1) David Falconer, The Agricultural Crisis: Or Landlord's Duties and Tenant's Rights, 1850 (inscribed to Dickens);
2) Ralph Barnes Grindrod, The Slaves of the Needle;
3) Wm. Gore Ouseley, Notes on the Slave Trade, 1850 (inscribed to Dickens);
4) A letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Wood, bt., M.P. etc. etc. etc. chancellor of the exchequer, on the assessed taxes, 1850;
5) Richard Dawes, Observations on the working of the government scheme of education and on school inspection, 1849;
6) First Annual Report of the Williams Secular School, 1850;
7) Richard Dawes, Hints on an improved and self-paying system of national education (1848), third edition;
8) Report presented at the thirteenth annual general meeting of The Liverpool Domestic Mission Society, 1850;
9) [Mary Carpenter], Ragged schools: their principles and modes of operation, 1850;
10) An account of the King's Somborne School [1849] (frequent marginal emphases in pencil);
11) John Dufton, The Prison and the School, 1848 (substantially annotated in pencil in Dickens's hand);
12) E.P. Rowsell, An Essay on Capital Punishment, 1848 (inscribed to Dickens);
13) Alexander Maconochie, The Principles of punishment, 1850;
14) Report of the Committee of Vistors of the lunatic asylum for North and East Ridings of Yorkshire, 1850;
15) E. Tighe Gregory, Fraternity, 1848;
From the Library of Charles Dickens with his bookplate and the posthumous Gadshill Library label.
Dickens bequeathed all his books to his eldest son Charles, who sold them en-bloc to Sotheran's, who then offered them for sale in Sotheran's Price Current of Literature No.s CLXXIV and CLXXV in 1878. This bound collection of pamphlets is one of 8 similar entries in the Gadshill Library catalogue. We can find no record of any of these other bound collections of pamphlets being offered for sale. Sotheran's archives were blitzed during the war and so we have no record of who originally bought this in 1878. Subsequently it was owned by the collector Sidney Miller Jr with his bookplate inside the slipcase.
The pamphlets date from 1848 to 1850, just before and then coincidental with Dickens first publishing his weekly journal Household Words. The subjects of the pamphlets reflect the social and economic themes that Dickens championed in Household Words; the plight of the poor, sanitation, education etc. and indeed some of these pamphlets may have been sent to Dickens by their authors with a view to them being reviewed in the journal.
These same themes are also present throughout Dickens's novels. During this period he was working on David Copperfield, which is considered to be his most autobiographical work, and was one of his favourites. His own schooling at the Wellington House Academy was not a happy one, as Angus Wilson comments "Much of the haphazard, desultory teaching, poor discipline punctuated by the headmaster's sadistic brutality, the seedy ushers and general run-down atmosphere, are embodied in Mr. Creakle's Establishment in David Copperfield".
This collection of pamphlets represents the rich source material Dickens used for both his novels and his social commentary voiced through Household Works (sic).
The pamphlets date from 1848 to 1850, just before and then coincidental with Dickens first publishing his weekly journal Household Words. The subjects of the pamphlets reflect the social and economic themes that Dickens championed in Household Words; the plight of the poor, sanitation, education etc. and indeed some of these pamphlets may have been sent to Dickens by their authors with a view to them being reviewed in the journal.
These same themes are also present throughout Dickens's novels. During this period he was working on David Copperfield, which is considered to be his most autobiographical work, and was one of his favourites. His own schooling at the Wellington House Academy was not a happy one, as Angus Wilson comments "Much of the haphazard, desultory teaching, poor discipline punctuated by the headmaster's sadistic brutality, the seedy ushers and general run-down atmosphere, are embodied in Mr. Creakle's Establishment in David Copperfield".
This collection of pamphlets represents the rich source material Dickens used for both his novels and his social commentary voiced through Household Works (sic).