Mayhew Brothers Paved with Gold March Original Installments 1857 March 1858 Joel Spitz Copy

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Mayhew (The Brothers), Paved With Gold or the Romance & Reality of the London Streets. An Unfashionable Novel. London, Chapman & Hall, March 1857 – March 1858, all 13 installments, custom boxed. Illustrations by H. K. Browne. Bookplate of The Joel Spitz Collection, Item 221, featuring the English painter and engraver, Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), who was also know as “Ben Talley O.”, with his color portrait.

 

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Mayhew (The Brothers), Paved With Gold or the Romance & Reality of the London Streets. An Unfashionable Novel. London, Chapman & Hall, March 1857 – March 1858, all 13 installments, custom boxed. Illustrations by H. K. Browne. Bookplate of The Joel Spitz Collection, Item 221, featuring the English painter and engraver, Henry Thomas Alken (1785-1851), who was also know as “Ben Talley O.”, with his color portrait.  Condition is generally good, but Part XIII shows separation wear.  All installments are present and complete, housed in a hard, folding cloth box.

Bookplate for the Joel Spitz Collection, with a color portrait of Henry Alken, alias Ben Tally O.
Part 1
Chapman and Hall, publisher’s advertisements.
Advertisements with a yellow paper insert for a new work by Charles Lever.
Advertisements for Dickens and Carlyle, as well as Lever.
Chapman and Hall Catalogue of Books.
Illustrations interlined.

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Mayhew Brothers

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Paved With Gold or the Romance & Reality of the London Streets, An Unfashionable Novel