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DICKENS, Charles (1812-70) – A COMPLETE SET OF MAJOR AND AN ALMOST COMPLETE SET OF MINOR WORKS, MOST IN FIRST EDITION, THE 49 VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND IN GILT-TOOLED RED MOROCCO BY WALLIS.
Major works: 1. Sketches by Boz (1839), first collected edition. (Lacks half-title); 2. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837). 8°. 20 extra plates by William Heath, front wrapper to Heath’s “Twenty Plates” bound in at end. No Buss plates. An autograph letter signed from Dickens to G. Zavan, 1 Devonshire Terrace, 9 February 1849, 2 pages, 8vo., thanking him for a poem, tipped in at front; 3. Oliver Twist (1838, 3 vols). Second issue with ‘Rose Maylie and Oliver’ plate and leaf with list of illustrations; 4. Nicholas Nickleby (1839). FIRST ISSUE, with ‘visiter’ on p.123 and ‘latter’ on p.160; 5. Master Humphrey’s Clock (1840-1841, 3 vols). Extra-illustrated with 8 plates by H.K. Browne; 6. Martin Chuzzlewit (1844). Reward notice on the sign-post not transposed. (Lacks errata leaf); 7. Dombey and Son (1848). Extra-illustrated with 12 portrait plates by H.K. Browne, the two front wrappers to the extra plates bound in. 2-line errata slip; 8. David Copperfield (1850); 9. Bleak House (1853); 10. Hard Times (1854); 11. Little Dorrit (1857). FIRST ISSUE, with p. 371 signed ‘B2’ and ‘Rigaud’ for ‘Blandois’ in chapter 17; 12. A Tale of Two Cities (1859). 8°. FIRST STATE with p. 213 mispaginated as 113; 13. Great Expectations (1861, 3 vols). Extra illustrated with 21 etched plates by Pailthorpe, no. 20 of 50 copies with his proof plates on Japanese paper, printed in black. With the early issue points; 14. Our Mutual Friend (1865, 2 vols. in one) (Lacks inserted slip.); 15. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870). Various 8° sizes. Etched plates as called for. Sample wrappers bound in. ALL FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM (except Boz).
Minor works: 16. Sketches of Young Couples (1840); 17. American Notes (1842, 2 vols); 18. A Christmas Carol (1843). Second issue (third state), with blue half title, red and blue title, Stave One; 19.The Chimes (1845 [December 1844]); 20. The Cricket on the Hearth (1846 [December 1845]); 21. The Haunted Man (1848). All four Christmas books with original cloth covers and spine bound in; 22. Christmas Stories from Household Words (1850-58). An autograph letter signed by Dickens to Edward Pigott, 49 Avenue des Champs Elysées, 13 November 1855, 3 pages, 8vo., bound in, discussing business, his social plans and mentioning that ‘Wiles my Household Words sub-editor has just arrived here to make up the Xmas No’; 23. The Story of Little Dombey (1858); 24. The Poor Traveller (1858); 25. A Curious Dance round a Curious Tree (1860). Second issue “pink” wrappers preserved; 26. The Uncommercial Traveller (1861 [1860)]; 27. Hunted Down [1870].
Related Works: 28. The Village Coquettes (1836); 29. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838, 2 vols); 30. The Pic Nic Papers, edited by Dickens (1841, 3 vols); 31. Over, John. Evenings of a Working Man (1844). Preface by Dickens; 32. To be read at Dusk (1852). A forgery by T.J. Wise. With 7 other titles by or relating to Dickens, including a 19th-entury facsimile of The Strange Gentleman, and one box (containing five “Pamphlets”). Provenance: Sir Charles Philip Huntingdon, 3rd Baronet (bookplate) – J.G.F. Lund (bookplate).
A SUMPTUOUSLY BOUND-SET OF DICKENS’S WORKS IN REMARKABLE CONDITION, ONLY ONE VOLUME NOT UNIFORM, ALMOST ALL IN FIRST EDITION. The only part of the canon not included are Sketches of Young Gentlemen, Pictures from Italy, The Battle of Life, and A Child's History of England.
Major works: 1. Sketches by Boz (1839), first collected edition. (Lacks half-title); 2. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837). 8°. 20 extra plates by William Heath, front wrapper to Heath’s “Twenty Plates” bound in at end. No Buss plates. An autograph letter signed from Dickens to G. Zavan, 1 Devonshire Terrace, 9 February 1849, 2 pages, 8vo., thanking him for a poem, tipped in at front; 3. Oliver Twist (1838, 3 vols). Second issue with ‘Rose Maylie and Oliver’ plate and leaf with list of illustrations; 4. Nicholas Nickleby (1839). FIRST ISSUE, with ‘visiter’ on p.123 and ‘latter’ on p.160; 5. Master Humphrey’s Clock (1840-1841, 3 vols). Extra-illustrated with 8 plates by H.K. Browne; 6. Martin Chuzzlewit (1844). Reward notice on the sign-post not transposed. (Lacks errata leaf); 7. Dombey and Son (1848). Extra-illustrated with 12 portrait plates by H.K. Browne, the two front wrappers to the extra plates bound in. 2-line errata slip; 8. David Copperfield (1850); 9. Bleak House (1853); 10. Hard Times (1854); 11. Little Dorrit (1857). FIRST ISSUE, with p. 371 signed ‘B2’ and ‘Rigaud’ for ‘Blandois’ in chapter 17; 12. A Tale of Two Cities (1859). 8°. FIRST STATE with p. 213 mispaginated as 113; 13. Great Expectations (1861, 3 vols). Extra illustrated with 21 etched plates by Pailthorpe, no. 20 of 50 copies with his proof plates on Japanese paper, printed in black. With the early issue points; 14. Our Mutual Friend (1865, 2 vols. in one) (Lacks inserted slip.); 15. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870). Various 8° sizes. Etched plates as called for. Sample wrappers bound in. ALL FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM (except Boz).
Minor works: 16. Sketches of Young Couples (1840); 17. American Notes (1842, 2 vols); 18. A Christmas Carol (1843). Second issue (third state), with blue half title, red and blue title, Stave One; 19.The Chimes (1845 [December 1844]); 20. The Cricket on the Hearth (1846 [December 1845]); 21. The Haunted Man (1848). All four Christmas books with original cloth covers and spine bound in; 22. Christmas Stories from Household Words (1850-58). An autograph letter signed by Dickens to Edward Pigott, 49 Avenue des Champs Elysées, 13 November 1855, 3 pages, 8vo., bound in, discussing business, his social plans and mentioning that ‘Wiles my Household Words sub-editor has just arrived here to make up the Xmas No’; 23. The Story of Little Dombey (1858); 24. The Poor Traveller (1858); 25. A Curious Dance round a Curious Tree (1860). Second issue “pink” wrappers preserved; 26. The Uncommercial Traveller (1861 [1860)]; 27. Hunted Down [1870].
Related Works: 28. The Village Coquettes (1836); 29. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838, 2 vols); 30. The Pic Nic Papers, edited by Dickens (1841, 3 vols); 31. Over, John. Evenings of a Working Man (1844). Preface by Dickens; 32. To be read at Dusk (1852). A forgery by T.J. Wise. With 7 other titles by or relating to Dickens, including a 19th-entury facsimile of The Strange Gentleman, and one box (containing five “Pamphlets”). Provenance: Sir Charles Philip Huntingdon, 3rd Baronet (bookplate) – J.G.F. Lund (bookplate).
A SUMPTUOUSLY BOUND-SET OF DICKENS’S WORKS IN REMARKABLE CONDITION, ONLY ONE VOLUME NOT UNIFORM, ALMOST ALL IN FIRST EDITION. The only part of the canon not included are Sketches of Young Gentlemen, Pictures from Italy, The Battle of Life, and A Child's History of England.
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