Works
London : J. Johnson, 1806
8vo.,
old calf
with an Essay on his Life and Genius by Arthur Murphy; edited by A. Chalmers, port. by Hogarth
10
English
£2.
S045.4; V10.16; P4c718p; C034.01; EB832701
E3
Library, shelving over bookcase over fireplace, item 06
A new edition. With the bookplate of Charles Dickens in each volume; presented to E.U.L by Prof. K. J. Fielding in 1986 ED/U-1:JA 3918-3927.
These volumes are currently available in Edinburgh University Library, Prof. K. J. Fielding who presented the set to E.U.L.
Prof KJ Fielding’s personal typed notes on Dickens’s copy of Fielding’s Works left inside a copy of a book he gave to his university library. Courtesy of Edinburgh University Library for sharing these notes with us.
“The interesting thing about this set of the Works is that it has been marked in pencil. It is certain that it came from Dickens’s Library; a few of the annotations (as in volume 9) are in his handwriting; and it is more than a reasonable assumption that, in such a clean copy, the rest of the pencillings are his as well. As well as each volume having Dickens’s bookplate and Sotheran’s sale-label, the books were listed in Sotheran’s sale catalogue of the library, Mr. Sotheran’s valuation-list, the Inventory of 1844 (Pilgrim Letters, vol. 4). In fact, the only marks are in volumes 3 and 9, & 10.
Volume 3, see pp. 4, 468, 471, and 473.
Volume 9, see “An essay on Conversation”, p. 363 Remember this , 378 As Forster, 385 As Lady Morgan et hoc genus, 388 As Landor?, 390 heavy marginal vertical lines on whole page, 394 short vertical line, 396 short vertical line, 397 No—not if deserved
“An Essay on the Characters of Men”, 403 and 4040 vertical line, 406 and 407 double vertical line, 414 and 417 vertical line, 418 by [ ].
Volume 10, “Causes of the Increase of Robbers” & c, 463 pencil line down and partly ruined a paragraph about the way that executions in private rather than in public are more awe-inspiring.
It is the handwriting of the entries about Landor, Lady Morgan and Forster that shows that they are by Dickens, and the selection of the names opposite the passages in Fielding’s essay fits exactly with what he might be supposed to have thought, tactless or daring as it may have been to leave the book on his shelves for his friend possibly to see”, KJF.
“The interesting thing about this set of the Works is that it has been marked in pencil. It is certain that it came from Dickens’s Library; a few of the annotations (as in volume 9) are in his handwriting; and it is more than a reasonable assumption that, in such a clean copy, the rest of the pencillings are his as well. As well as each volume having Dickens’s bookplate and Sotheran’s sale-label, the books were listed in Sotheran’s sale catalogue of the library, Mr. Sotheran’s valuation-list, the Inventory of 1844 (Pilgrim Letters, vol. 4). In fact, the only marks are in volumes 3 and 9, & 10.
Volume 3, see pp. 4, 468, 471, and 473.
Volume 9, see “An essay on Conversation”, p. 363 Remember this , 378 As Forster, 385 As Lady Morgan et hoc genus, 388 As Landor?, 390 heavy marginal vertical lines on whole page, 394 short vertical line, 396 short vertical line, 397 No—not if deserved
“An Essay on the Characters of Men”, 403 and 4040 vertical line, 406 and 407 double vertical line, 414 and 417 vertical line, 418 by [ ].
Volume 10, “Causes of the Increase of Robbers” & c, 463 pencil line down and partly ruined a paragraph about the way that executions in private rather than in public are more awe-inspiring.
It is the handwriting of the entries about Landor, Lady Morgan and Forster that shows that they are by Dickens, and the selection of the names opposite the passages in Fielding’s essay fits exactly with what he might be supposed to have thought, tactless or daring as it may have been to leave the book on his shelves for his friend possibly to see”, KJF.