Together, 6 volumes expanded to 12, 8vo (214 x 135 mm). Half-titles in first volume of each part, titles printed in red and black. EXTRA ILLUSTRATED by the addition of 500 engraved plates. 20th-century green morocco gilt, sides with gilt-stamped portraits of Dickens, with gilt-stamped variations of his signature, spines gilt, wide turn-ins gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, STAMP SIGNED BY RIVIERE AND SON (minor sunning to a few volumes, very occasional scuff, otherwise fine and bright). 

 

[Tipped in:]: AN ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED BY DICKENS  (“Charles Dickens”), an envelope addressed to English judge, author, and Radical politician Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854) (“The Hon: / Mr Justice Talfourd / Dundee? Square”). With Dickens’ blue stamp to envelope closure.