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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1873. [Classic Literature]. FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. In two volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] xviii; 471 [5]; pp.[4] x; 491 [5]. With 43 wood engraved plates by Phiz, including frontispieces and a title page vignette. Contemporary dark brown full morocco with raised bands and gilt... More
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. [Literature] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with 'visiter' for 'sister' line 17, page 123, and 'latter' for 'letter' 6 lines up, page 160; the illustrations up to p.45 are First Issue, carrying a 'C+H' imprint (Eckel). No half-title. Octavo, pp.xvi; 624. Contemporary brown full morocco, gilt... More
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, October 1891. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, with illustrations. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 624. With 39 engraved plates by 'Phiz' and a frontispiece of the young Dickens by Maclise. Reprinted from stereotype plates. Contemporary green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine... More
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. [Classic fiction] BOUND FROM PARTS; early issue text, mixed state plates. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 624. Contemporary black half calf over marbled paper boards, red title label to spine, all edges speckled. Illustrated with author portrait frontispiece and thirty-nine plates by Phiz and Maclise... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE: "Veller" title and two "Buss" plates; bound without the half-title. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.iii-xvi; 609; [1]. With 41 engraved plates, as well as an engraved frontispiece and decorated title page. Later green half straight grained morocco, with raised... More
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE: "Veller" title and all of Smith's first issue text points save for one, 'Phiz' plates in early states with page numbers as called for but no titles or imprints; bound without the half-title. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.iii-xvi; 609;... More
Martin Chuzzlewit.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1891. [Classic Literature] CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.xvi; 624. Printed from Stereotype plates. Thirty-eight amusing illustrations by Phiz, as well as illustrated frontispiece (with tissue guard) and title page. Finely bound in half red morocco over matching red book cloth, with raised bands, gilt... More
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION, Mixed Issue. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] xvi; 624 [4]. With the dated title page vignette, but 'screwed' for 'screamed' to page 132, line 20. With 40 steel engravings by Phiz, including frontispiece and title vignette. In a later tan half... More
The Personal History of David Copperfield.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1880]. [Classic Literature] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xvi; 624. With 40 engraved plates by 'Phiz', including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Modern green half morocco with gilt titles to a black label on the spine, further gilt decoration to spine... More
The Old Curiosity Shop.
London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. [c.1965]. English literature. Illustrated edition. Crown octavo, pp.715. With seventy-five illustrations by Cattermole and 'Phiz'. Original half blue calf, gilt, with five raised bands to spine, buckram sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Internally fine, minor dustiness and wear, spine pleasingly sunned to grey. An..... More
Bleak House.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First Edition, First Issue, bound from the parts with the half-title. Octavo, pp.xvi, 624. With all first issue flaws except on p.xii; p.230 and p.620. Bound in contemporary brown half morocco over marbled paper with triple gilt ruling to morocco; raised bands, gilt tooling and... More
Dombey and Son. Or, Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic literature] FIRST EDITION, bound from the original parts. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[xvi]; 624; [1] errata; [1]. Illustrated with frontispiece and vignette and a further thirty-eight plates. Contemporary dark green half calf over marbled paper boards, with raised bands and red and gilt title... More
Dombey and Son. Or, Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation.
London: Chapman and Hall Limited, W.R. Howell and Co., no date [circa 1880s]. [Classic literature] Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[xvi]; 624. Illustrated by H.K. Browne, with tissue guards to engravings. Elegantly bound in dark green half morocco over cloth sides, decorated in gilt, with raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled..... More
Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First Edition, with corrected text. 2 vols. Octavo. Bound in contemporary half green calf over marbled paper boards, with blind tooling and red title label to spine; all edges marbled; brown end papers. Binding is rubbed, worn at corners and spine ends, joints starting. Fairly... More
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