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Lot 168
Sale 1184 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
May 11, 2023
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[BINDINGS]. DICKENS, Charles (1812–1870). [Works]. 30 volumes. [Uniformly bound with:] FORSTER, John (1812-1876). The Life of Charles Dickens. 3 volumes. London & Philadelphia: Chapman and Hall & J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1873-1876.
Together, 33 volumes, 8vo (209 x 133 mm). Numerous etched plates after H.K. Browne, George Cattermole, George Cruikshank, Marcus Stone and others (including frontispieces and engraved vignette titles). (Slight marginal toning and occasional slight spotting.) 20th-century dark brown crushed levant gilt, spines in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered in 2, gilt-decorated in the rest, edges gilt (spines slightly sunned, a few light scuffs, a few endleaves detaching).
FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED SET OF DICKENS WORKS with Forster’s definitive biography of Dickens.