Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton (1803-1873)

London : George Routledge & Sons; Chapman & Hall, 1851-60

crown 8vo., half calf gilt , collective edition

with fronts.

20

English

£2. 15s.

Sotheran's Valuation (c1871)

Stonehouse Catalogue (1878)

CD Junior's Catalogue

Other sources

S075.7d; V08.08; C056.02; J2011-12.821

F4

Library, bookcase over fireplace, item 02

Jarndyce

Comprising: Rienzi, Paul Clifford, Pelham, Eugene Aram, Last of the Barons, Last Days of Pompeii, Godolphin, Pilgrims of the Rhine, Night and Morning, Ernest Maltravers, Alice, Disowned, Devereux, Zanoni. Leila, Harold the Last of the Saxon Kings, Lucretia, The Caxtons, My Novel.

Works. New editions. 19 titles in 20 vols. G. Routledge & Co; Chapman & Hall. Fronts; occasional spotting and dusting; one or two gatherings sl. proud. Uniformly bound in contemp. half maroon calf, blocked in blind, spines dec. in gilt, dark green leather labels. Armorial bookplates of Charles Dickens in two volumes, and with 'From the Library of Charles Dickens' label in all vols.
A collection of Bulwer's novels from the library of his friend and colleague Charles Dickens. The Catalogue of Dickens's Library (Sotheran's, 1870), p.74, offers this at £2. 15s. The nineteen titles in this collection are: My Novel (2 vols), Pelham, The Last Days of Pompeii, Ernest Maltravers, Alice (Ernest Maltravers, part II), The Caxtons, The Last of the Barons, Paul Clifford, Godolphin, The Pilgrims of the Rhine, Night and Morning, Zanoni, Harold, Leila, Lucretia, The Disowned, Devereux, Eugene Aram, and Rienzi.

For sale by Jarndyce at £4,800 (Winter 2011-12). (J2011-12.821).
For sale by Jarndyce at £4,500 (Winter 2012-13). (J2012-13.42).
For sale by Jarndyce at £4,500 (October 2016). (J2016.869).
For sale by Jarndyce at £4,500 (Autumn 2019). (J2019.637).