
This auction has ended. View lot details
You may also be interested in
![[DICKENS (CHARLES)] Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz", 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Richard Bentley, 1838 image 1](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2021-10%2F31%2F25121907-10-2.jpg&w=2400&q=75)
![[DICKENS (CHARLES)] Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz", 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Richard Bentley, 1838 image 2](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%2Flive%2F2021-10%2F31%2F25121907-10-1.jpg&w=2400&q=75)
CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
Lot 85•
[DICKENS (CHARLES)] Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz", 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Richard Bentley, 1838
1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £612 inc. premium
Looking for a similar item?
Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistAsk about this lot

[DICKENS (CHARLES)]
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. Edited by "Boz", 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, second issue or later state (with grotesque border to last plate and more elaborate binding), half-titles, engraved portrait, 12 etched plates after Cruikshank, 36pp. publisher's catalogue at end, some oxidisation to plates, detailed condition notes by Collis loosely inserted, publisher's purple cloth, covers with blind-stamped corner-pieces and large arabesque, spines elaborately decorated in gilt with clown figures, covers spotted, spines slightly faded [Eckel pp.140-42; Gimbel B64], 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1838
Footnotes
Provenance: "From Elly, 28 Feb 1938", note from Collis at foot of loosely inserted sheet of notes.

![ADVERTISING POSTERfor 'The Suffragette' newspaper, [c.1913-1914]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-06%252F25%252F25680656-116-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
![ILLUMINATED ADDRESS – CLARA CODD Illuminated printed address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, [1909]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-06%252F25%252F25680656-32-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
![MUSIC & RECORDINGS – ETHEL SMYTH Collection of printed music, song sheets and records, [c.1911-1912]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-10%252F09%252F25680656-99-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)


![SUFFRAGETTE INSIGNIA - GROUP CAPTAIN Group Captain's ribbon, [1908]](/_next/image.jpg?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg1.bonhams.com%2Fimage%3Fsrc%3DImages%252Flive%252F2025-07%252F16%252F25680656-10-1.jpg%26width%3D650&w=2400&q=75)
