Lot 29: [BROWNE, Hablot K. ("Phiz"), 1815-1882]. THOMPSON, David Croal. Life and Labours of Hablot K. Browne. London: Chapman and Hall, 1884.

One volume extended to 20 volumes (1 to 10, two parts per volume), large 4 o (337 x 260 mm). EXTENSIVELY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 1,370 ITEMS, INCLUDING 92 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, 11 AUTOGRAPHS AND OVER 1,270 INSERTED ILLUSTRATIONS. Red levant morocco gilt, broad gilt borders, bark blue morocco doublures gilt, white watered silk free endpapers, top edges gilt, BY THE HARCOURT BINDERY, unsigned, for C.B. Randall. Provenance : sold Christie's New York, 17 November 1978, lot 496. A SUPERB GRANGERIZED SET, INCLUDING: Vol. 1 Part I: 21 drawings; 2 ALSs, 22 extra illustrations 1. Self portrait, oil and watercolor 2. A river scene with cattle and a boat before a cottage, watercolor 3. A deer park with a figure crossing a bridge over a stream, watercolor 4. Pencil sketch for Augusts Mayhew: Paved with Gold, 1858 5. Philip at the Pauper School, pencil drawing for Paved with Gold 6. Cartoon gentleman in top hat and monocle, pencil sketch 7. Between two Fines, pencil sketch 8. Tax upon Bachelors, from Worship of Mannon, pencil and colored wash, signed 9. The Captain of Plymouth & Portsmouth Steamer, colored chalk and pencil 10. Puffer Hopkins... 3, Negotiations with the Newsboys. Pencil and pen and ink drawing for Cornelius Mathews: The Career of Puffer Hopkins, New York, 1842. 11. Mother and two children, watercolor, signed 12. Hide and Seek. A girl in a wood with three children, watercolor, signed 13. The Posey, pencil and brown crayon 14. Pencil drawing, for Albert Smith: Pottleton Legacy, 1854 15. Another 16. Mr Skelton, brown crayon and pencil and on the reverse 17. Two children and a frog, pencil 18. Gentlemen at dinner, one with a hawk on his head, grey wash 19. A rider and his dog, pen and ink 20. A horse and cart with people aboard, pencil, and on the reverse 21. A horse, pencil, signed 1.II. 65 extra illustrations, mostly engravings for Charles Dickens: Nicholas Nickleby, 1839 2.I. 10 drawings, one ALS, 73 extra illustrations. 1. Wandering Gentleman of the "Good old Times," pencil, signed 2. Eight male and female portrait sketches, pencil 3. Pencil drawings, for Harriet Beecher Stowe: Minister's Wooing 4. Another 5. Another 6. Mother with two children before a drawing room window, pencil and gray wash 7. A Music Lesson, pencil and gray wash 8. A European gentleman being served a Chinese meal, original pencil drawing, with the accompanying printed version 9. Pencil drawing for Charles Lever: Barrington, 1863, signed with two accompanying printed versions, and on the reverse 10. A male head, pencil 2.II. 110 extra illustrations, including a suite of engravings for Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, 1842 in two states, one on india paper 3.I Two drawings, one ALS, 73 extra illustrations, mostly for Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit, 1842 and Dombey and Son, 1848 1. Rubbish, pencil 2. A group of men, one seated, pencil 3.II. 58 extra illustrations, mostly for Dombey and Son, 1848, and two for David Copperfield, 1850, one of them a proof on india paper of the frontispiece and title 4.I. 8 drawings, one ALS with a pen and ink sketch, 89 extra illustrations, mostly for David Copperfield, in two states, one on india paper, and a mezzotint The Morning for Bleak House 1. At the Theatre, pencil 2. The School Mistress, original pencil drawing, with the accompanying engraving 3. "Hold!" cried Dugald Roy, in a voice like Thunder, original pencil and brown ink drawing with the accompanying drawing 1840 4. Chricton [sic] Crihchton's encounter with Ogilvy and Blount before Falcon, original pencil and red crayon sketch for W.H. Ainsworth: Crichton, 1853 5. The Prentice's Vision, original pencil and gray wash drawing for Mathews: The Career of Puffer Hopkins, 1842 6. The Gipsey Girl, pencil 7. The Shepherd's dog, pencil and gray wash 8. Eastern Window Welley Abby, watercolor, signed 4.II. 81 extra illustrations, mostly for Bleak House, 1853 and Little Dorrit, 1857 with some hunting illustrations 5.I. 8 drawings, one ALS, 48 extra illustrations, for Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities, 1859; Charles Lever: Confessions of Henry Lorrequer, 1839; Charles O'Malley, 1841; Jack Hinton, 1844 and others. 1. For some time he stood trembling and staring in a cold sweat, original pencil and brown wash drawing, with two accompanying printed versions, one on india paper, 1840 2. An Introduction "Sorry the acquaintance is so short," brown wash, heightened with white, signed 3. A Fencing Lesson, pencil sketch for Henry Coverdale's Courtship 4. The Black Penitent, pencil and wash drawing for Ainsworth's Magazine, 1845 5. Spitfire... Vol. III, pencil 6. Boadicea, pencil and brown wash, signed 7. Gaffing a big fish, pencil and crayon drawing for one of Lever's works 8. Confessions of Henry Lorrequer, pen and ink and pencil drawing for the wrapper with autograph note: "N.B. Perhaps you'll return this sketch when you write--otherwise I may forget what the design is--HKB," with two accompanying printed versions, differing from the drawing 5.II 67 extra illustrations, for Charles Lever: The O'Donoghue, 1845; Knight of Gwynne, 1847 and others, a few colored 6.I 4 drawings, 49 extra illustrations for Charles Lever: Roland Cashel, 1850; Our Mess and others 1. Henri of Navarre at the Falcon, original pencil and crayon drawing for W.H. Ainsworth: Crichton, 1853, inscribed "The gift of my dear friend Geo Merry," with the accompanying printed version 2. The Sore Disappointment, original pencil drawing, with the accompanying printed version 3. The Doll Merchant, pencil, signed 4. A lady boarding a boat, pencil and gray wash 6.II 83 extra illustrations, mostly for Charles Lever: The O'Donoghue, 1845; Roland Cashel, 1850 and some riding illustrations 7.I 10 drawings, 2 ALSs to Frederick Cousens referring to sketches for Nicholas Nickleby and Martin Chuzzlewit, 68 extra illustrations for Charles Lever: The Martins of Cro' Martin, 1856; One of Them, 1861 and others 1. Horse and cart, pencil 2. In his fury he jumped upon the Coffins, cursing all around him, original pencil and gray wash drawing with the accompanying printed version in Vol. 3, pt. I 3. Carlos, finding himself detected, quietly drew out the half suffocated little creature, original pencil drawing with the accompanying printed version in Vol. 3, pt. I 4. "I was with Hercules & Cadmus once, when in a wood of Crete they bayed the Bear," pencil, signed 5. A figure walking in a rocky landscape, watercolor 6. Can wrong be right? The Schoolmaster at home, original pencil drawing with the accompanying printed version 7. A girl offering food and drink to an old man, pencil and brown wash 8. Two milkmaids, pencil, signed 9. Venus dissuading Adonis from Hunting the Boar, pencil and gray wash 10. A reading lesson, original drawing with the accompanying printed version 7.II 67 extra illustrations for various works by Ainsworth and Smedley and 3 color prints 8.I 9 drawings, one ANS, 73 extra illustrations for various works 1. Dame Perkins, watercolor, signed, for L. Meadows: Dame Perkins and her Grey Mare, 1866 2. Two children reading, watercolor 3. A Landscape with a cottage and cattle on the Isle of Wight, watercolor, signed 4. The Dead shows how to take the Bull by the Horns, pencil and crayon sketch with the accompanying printed version 5. With amazing dexterity, he first clutched up one Pig, and then another, pencil and brown wash sketch with the accompanying printed version 6. A horseman at the gallop, pencil and wash 7. A hunt, pencil and brown wash 8. A gentleman entering a peasant's cottage, pencil 9. The Conjurors interrupted, pencil sketch for W. H. Ainsworth: Mervyn Clitheroe, 1858 8.II 65 extra illustrations, mostly for W.J. Neale: Paul Periwinkle, or the Press Gang, 1841 and B.C. Pelham: The Chronicles of Crime, 1841 9.I 9 drawings, one ALS mentioning David Copperfield, 40 extra illustrations for various works 1. The Savoyards, pencil and gray wash 2. Gaspard & his Dog, pencil and gray wash 3. A mother in classical dress holding a child in a basket with flowers, watercolor 4. Four sketches on one sheet of a rescue at sea of a woman by a fat man in a life-belt, pen and ink and pencil, signed, with a reproduction of another plate from this series 5. Mercy, most noble Knight, cried the wretched man, pencil sketch, signed with accompanying printed version 6. Under the greenwood tree, pencil, signed 7. Guarding a doorway, pencil 8. A mother and her children, pencil and brown wash, signed 9. Juddy's disappointment, pencil 9.II 55 extra illustrations, including S. Le Fanu: The Fortunes of Torlogh O'Brien, 1847; H.K. Browne: Sketches of the Seaside & The Country, n.d., and others 10.I 11 drawings, one ALS with sketch, 54 extra illustrations including late editions of Dickens and other works, one large folding print in pocket at end 1. Irish Courtship, pencil and crayon 2. The meeting in Delaware Forest, pencil sketch for W.H. Ainsworth: Meryvn Clitheroe, 1858, and on the reverse 3. A horseman with two other people, pencil 4. Two men with dogs and guns, one holding a bird, pencil 5. Little Ferns for Fanny's little friends, a design for a title-page, pencil and gray wash heightened with white 6. Two riders approaching a castle, pencil and gray wash heightened with white 7. The Prince and Elsie sailing down the Rhine, pencil and gray wash heightened with white 9. Showery, pencil 10. Much rain, pencil 11. A man and woman at a stream, pencil and brown wash, signed 10.II Fine Arts Society: Catalogue of the Works of the late Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), Exhibited..., 1883, two memoirs one by Fred G. Kitton, 1882, and another by Arthur Allchin, 1893; 38 extra illustrations. (20).