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Lot 202
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
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Live / Philadelphia
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[Literature] Dickens, Charles. Group of 15 Titles, Uniformly Bound
1. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1838. Later issue. 8vo. (xvii), 609 pp. Illustrated with etched plates by Robert Seymour and Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Full straight-grain red morocco, stamped in gilt; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; by J. Carss & Co., Glasgow; scattered foxing to prelims and text. Eckel pp. 56-57
2. Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. New edition, Complete. 8vo. (x), 526 pp. Bound as above; scattered foxing to plates and text.
3. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition in book form. 8vo. xvi, 624 pp. Illustrated with 39 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Bound as above; scattered foxing to prelims and text. Eckel pp. 64-66
4. Master Humphrey's Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. Three volumes bound in one. First edition in book form. 306, 306, 426 pp. Bound as above; scattered foxing to prelims and text. Eckel pp. 67-70
5. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First edition in book form, first issue (with "100£" on engraved title). 8vo. (xvii), 624 pp. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Bound as above; scattered foxing to prelims and text. Eckel pp. 71-73
6. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition in book form. 8vo. (xvii), 624 pp. Lacking half title; errata mounted following p. xvi. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Bound as above; scattered foxing to prelims and text. Eckel pp. 74-76
7. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. First edition in book form. 8vo. (xvi), 624 pp. Lacking half-title. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Bound as above; scattered foxing to prelims and text. Eckel pp. 77-78
8. Bleak House. London: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First edition in book form. 8vo. (xvi), 624 pp. Lacking half-title. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Bound as above; scattered foxing to prelims and text. Eckel pp.
9. Hard Times. For These Times. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. First edition. 8vo. (x), 352 pp. Bound as above; scattered foxing to prelims and text. Eckel, p. 131
10. Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition in book form. 8vo. xiv, 625 pp. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Bound as above; scattered foxing to text and plates. Eckel pp. 82-85
11. A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition in book form, mixed issue (with p. 213 correctly paginated, but p. 134, line 12 with "affectionately" misspelled, and no signature "B" to list of plates leaf). (xv), 254 pp. Without 32-pp. ads at rear found in some copies. Illustrated with an etched frontispiece, etched vignette title-page, and 14 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). Bound as above, boards lightly soiled; scattered foxing to text and plates. Eckel, pp. 86-90
12. The Uncommercial Traveller. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. Third edition. 8vo. Bound as above; scattered foxing to prelims. Eckel, pp. 132-134
13. The Adventures of Oliver Twist... London: Chapman and Hall, 1863. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected. 8vo. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Bound as above; scattered foxing to prelims.
14. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Two volumes bound as one. First edition in book form. 8vo. xi, 320; vii, (i), 309 pp. Lacking half-titles and ads. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Marcus Stone. Bound as above; scattered foxing to text and plates. Eckel pp. 94-95
15. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition in book form. 8vo. (viii), 190 (2, ads) pp. Illustrated with engraved portrait by Baker, and 12 etched plates and vignette title-page by S.L. Fildes. Bound as above; scattered foxing to text and plates. Original wrappers from June 1870 monthly part bound at front. Eckel pp. 96-98
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