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Presentation copy of Martin Chuzzlewit

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Лот 73 | Presentation copy of Martin Chuzzlewit
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$ 40 000 – 60 000
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844.

Presentation copy of the first edition, inscribed and signed by Dickens for Frederick Salmon, his physician. And with Dickens's transmittal letter to Salmon bearing the same date. Dickens has inscribed the head of the dedication page: "Frederick Salmon Esquire / From his friend / Charles Dickens / Twenty Eighth March 1846." The autograph letter signed is tipped in before the half-title and also dated 28 March 1846, from Devonshire Terrace. It reads: "My Dear Salmon, / Rub me out of that list of vagabonds in which you have long ago written my name, – and accept these books to make [?] up your set so far."

This is an extraordinary presentation copy of one of the rarest of Dickens's novels to find inscribed. By the time Chuzzlewit was published on 16 July 1844 Dickens had moved his family to Genoa for a year, and he appears not to have inscribed any copies at the time of issue. Even the dedicatee Angela Burdett-Coutts’s copy, in a presentation binding, was not inscribed.

Its rarity is heightened by the recipient: the surgeon Frederick Salmon. Salmon was an inspirational physician who participated in the landmark mass resignation of doctors from the Aldersgate General Dispensary in 1833 to protest the effectual selling of medical posts for money or influence. By 1835 he decided to found his own institution: St Mark’s, a bowel hospital for the poor. The hospital became extremely busy, but Salmon still found time for some private patients. The most famous of these was Charles Dickens.

Dickens was suffering from a fistula which he thought was caused by too much sitting at his desk to write. He wrote in his diary that such agonies developed that eventually he couldn’t bear to sit down at all. After Salmon’s successful surgery, performed without anesthetic in Dickens's own home, the two men became good friends. Dickens gratefully contributed 10 guineas to the hospital and gave Salmon several inscribed copies of his books. Their correspondence indicates that both Frederick Salmon and his wife were avid readers of Dickens's novels.

Dickens presented Salmon with inscribed books on at least four occasions, according to information in the auction records. In October 1841 he inscribed Pickwick Papers, Master Humphrey’s Clock, and Barnaby Rudge; in December 1841 he sent Sketches by Boz. American Notes was sent in October of 1842; and finally on 28 March 1846 Dickens presented both this copy of Martin Chuzzlewit and A Christmas Carol (last seen in the Jerome Kern auction of 1929). The letter which accompanied Salmon’s copy of Pickwick Papers read in part, “Put these books upon some spare shelf, for my sake—and let it be upon some shelf which has room for all I may write hereafter,” shedding great light on the letter present here. Written over four years later, Dickens is still making good on his promise and sending Salmon his latest books. No other work by Dickens with Dr. Salmon's have appeared at auction since 1954. The first with Salmon provenance appeared in 1911. (Both according to RBH.) Four of the six volumes were in seemingly identical full red morocco gilt bindings to this one.

Octavo (215 x 137mm). Half-title, 14-line errata, 40 etched plates by “Phiz” [H.K. Browne] (most of the etched plates browned/foxed as usual). Later full crimson morocco gilt by Bedford, spine gilt in compartments, gilt turn-ins, dark green coated endleaves, all edges gilt; green morocco gilt pull-off box (box sunned and lightly worn, binding very fine). Provenance: Frederick Salmon, 1796–1868, surgeon and founder of St Mark's Hospital, London (presentation inscription from the author) – Ella Park Lawrence, 1857-1924, and George Appleton Lawrence, 1854-1934 of Illinois (bookplate) – by descent to their daughter Rebecca Lowrie, 1891-1975, a prominent donor to Vassar College (collection bookplate of her and her husband, John Lowrie, 1887-1954) – Dr. Dean C. Burns, 1896-1978, founder of the Burns Clinic in Petoskey, Michigan (gifted by Rebecca Lowrie in the 1950s) – by descent to the current owner.
Автор:Чарльз Диккенс (1812 - 1870)
Место происхождения:Англия
Категория аукционного дома:Печатные книги
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