1841, ISBN: b3361338d3677224e442c0e8fe5ec49f

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[SC: 25.15], [PU: Edinburgh & London, Ballantyne & Hughes for William Blackwood & Sons, 1841.], ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT FICTION LAW NOISBN, 3 vols, 8vo, with one plate; half-titles, without … More...

[SC: 25.15], [PU: Edinburgh & London, Ballantyne & Hughes for William Blackwood & Sons, 1841.], ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT FICTION LAW NOISBN, 3 vols, 8vo, with one plate; half-titles, without final advertisement leaf to vol. III; slight spotting and thumbing in places; a very good set in early 20th-century half red morocco with marbled sides, spines lettered directly in gilt, top-edges gilt, marbled endpapers; slight dust-staining, short split to upper joint vol. I; ink ownership inscription 'James Moffat 1858' with occasional notesFirst English (and first authorised) edition of an influential legal novel, a satire in which a young upstart, Tittlebat Titmouse, discovers he is worth the massive endowment of the story's title, and must defend himself against a host of avaricious villains of the legal profession bearing equally ridiculous names, such as Bloodsuck, Grizzlegut and, more simply, Grab. A lawyer at Inner Temple, Warren 'repeatedly tells the reader that the English legal system is close to perfection, but the actual workings of the law in Ten Thousand a-Year/i> paint a more negative picture' (ODNB). An immediate success, Ten Thousand a-Year/i> may have borrowed parts of Dickens's Bardell v. Pickwick case, and in turn Dickens appears to adopt legal characters and imagery from the novel for his later work, Bleak House. The work was first published serially in Blackwood's Magazine, from 1839 to 1841, and was pirated in Philadelphia in 1840-41, in six slim volumes; the present edition is the first authorised issue of the whole text. Language: English<

1841, ISBN: b3361338d3677224e442c0e8fe5ec49f

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[SC: 25.24], [PU: Edinburgh & London, Ballantyne & Hughes for William Blackwood & Sons, 1841.], ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT FICTION LAW NOISBN, 3 vols, 8vo, with one plate; half-titles, without … More...

[SC: 25.24], [PU: Edinburgh & London, Ballantyne & Hughes for William Blackwood & Sons, 1841.], ENGRAVINGS & WOODCUT FICTION LAW NOISBN, 3 vols, 8vo, with one plate; half-titles, without final advertisement leaf to vol. III; slight spotting and thumbing in places; a very good set in early 20th-century half red morocco with marbled sides, spines lettered directly in gilt, top-edges gilt, marbled endpapers; slight dust-staining, short split to upper joint vol. I; ink ownership inscription 'James Moffat 1858' with occasional notesFirst English (and first authorised) edition of an influential legal novel, a satire in which a young upstart, Tittlebat Titmouse, discovers he is worth the massive endowment of the story's title, and must defend himself against a host of avaricious villains of the legal profession bearing equally ridiculous names, such as Bloodsuck, Grizzlegut and, more simply, Grab. A lawyer at Inner Temple, Warren 'repeatedly tells the reader that the English legal system is close to perfection, but the actual workings of the law in Ten Thousand a-Year/i> paint a more negative picture' (ODNB). An immediate success, Ten Thousand a-Year/i> may have borrowed parts of Dickens's Bardell v. Pickwick case, and in turn Dickens appears to adopt legal characters and imagery from the novel for his later work, Bleak House. The work was first published serially in Blackwood's Magazine, from 1839 to 1841, and was pirated in Philadelphia in 1840-41, in six slim volumes; the present edition is the first authorised issue of the whole text. Language: English<

1845, ISBN: b3361338d3677224e442c0e8fe5ec49f

Paris: Baudry's European Library ... and Stassen and Xavier [et al.], 1841. 2 volumes, thick 12mo, pp. [4], 688; [4], 960, 4 (ads); contemporary full tan calf, blind-tooled boarders on c… More...

Paris: Baudry's European Library ... and Stassen and Xavier [et al.], 1841. 2 volumes, thick 12mo, pp. [4], 688; [4], 960, 4 (ads); contemporary full tan calf, blind-tooled boarders on covers enclosing a single gilt rule, red morocco labels on gilt-paneled spines; some scuffing but generally very good. Originally published in Philadelphia in 6 volumes in 1840-41 (see Sadleir 3304), and in 3 volumes in London in 1841. This is the first continental edition. The Tauchnitz edition did not appear until 1845., Baudry's European Library ... and Stassen and Xavier [et al.], 1841, 0<