362 Dickens (Charles). Dombey and Son, illustrated by H.K. Browne, 20 parts in 19, 1st edition, Bradbury and Evans, 1846-48, forty etched plates, including frontispiece and additional title-page, numerous printed advertisements and slips at front and rear of each part (complete according to Hatton & Cleaver), original printed blue wrappers, occasional small expert edge-repairs, slim 8vo, housed in a custom-made red cloth solander box with gilt lettered spine, some fading and remains of small label at head of upper side Eckel, pp.74-76; Hatton & Cleaver pp.225-250. Hugh Walpole’s copy with his ‘Brackenburn’ bookplate, and additional bookplate of bibliophiles Ethel and George Booth (both mounted inside solander box). English novelist Sir Hugh Walpole (1884-1941) bought Brackenburn, overlooking Derwentwater in Cumbria, in 1923, and lived there until his death. The house was a bungalow built of local slate, and he enlarged it, converting the upper storey of the nearby garage into a library and study, which eventually housed his art collection as well as his 30,000 books. This copy of ‘Dombey and Son’ in the original parts is an excellent set, in usually good condition, and with all the advertisements and slips present as called-for by Hatton & Cleaver. Each part is separately enclosed in a loose paper wrapper, with typed information on each indicating that all the plates are in the first state, and all but one letterpress are in first issue form (that to part XI is second issue, but has a copy of the first issue sheets loosely inserted). (1) £1000-1500
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