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The Works of Charles Dickens.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1890-95. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. 24 titles bound in 17 volumes, Octavo (21 x 15 x 62 cm). Contemporary red half calf red with twin green labels, full gilt backs, marbled boards, edges and endpapers. With illustrations from the original plates by Cruikshank, Stone, Phiz, et al...... More
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, 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 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
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club.
London: Chapman and Hall, no date [circa 1890's]. [Classic iterature] FINELY BOUND. Octavo (22 x 16cm), pp.[2] xvi; 609 [3]. Illustrated with forty-three engravings by Seymour and Phiz. Contemporary dark green half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and pebble-grained green cloth over boards. All edges..... 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
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Charles Dickens' Complete Works. The University Edition. [Including] Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, [etc.]
Boston, MA: Estes and Lauiat, 1882. [Complete Works] FINELY BOUND SET. Fifteen volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 55cm). With occasional wood engraved plates by various artists. Fine contemporary dark brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and marbled paper over boards. All edges and..... 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
The Works of Charles Dickens.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1890-95. FINELY BOUND SET. 24 titles in 17 volumes, together with a one-volume Life of Dickens by John Forster. Octavo. With illustrations from the original plates by Cruikshank, Stone, Phiz, et al. In half blue calf by Mudie, with striking blue marbled boards, end-papers and edges..... More
Martin Chuzzlewit.
London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. [circa 1870]. Octavo. pp.xvi; 624. Finely bound in half green morocco over green pebble grained cloth boards, with raised bands, gilt titles and gilt motifs to spine; all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. 38 amusing illustrations by Phiz, as well as illustrated frontispiece and title page..... More
The Works of C. Dickens. Including: Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, Christmas Books, etc.
London: Chapman and Hall, n.d. (1870). The Charles Dickens Edition. 21 titles in 14 volumes (complete as published); Crown octavo, illustrated. Bound in original half brown morocco, gilt, with marbled sides, edges and endpapers. Some minor wear and rubbing but essentially a solid set. Most presentable. Each work has a...... More
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