Dickens (Charles).- The New Work by the Author of "The Pickwick Papers"... "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby", 4pp., [1838], bound with a few other small works or extracts, 19th century roan-backed boards, rubbed § Thirty Illustrations to the Works of Charles Dickens Selected from the Best Designs of Charles Green and F. Barnard [manuscript title], 35 plates on India paper, some light spotting, 19th century red half calf, gilt, spine a little rubbed and faded, t.e.g, Sabin, 1889 § Stirling (Edward) The Cricket on the Hearth... as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi, engraved frontispiece (a little browned), later wrappers, rebacked, Published at the National Acting Drama Office, [c.1845]; and 5 others, Dickens, 4to & 8vo (8)

⁂ The first a scarce item, including Dickens' excoriation of literary pirates: "we derive but small comfort under this injury, from the knowledge that the dishonest dullards aforesaid, cannot, by reason of their mental smallness, follow near our heels, but are constrained to creep along by dirty and little-frequented ways..."