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Dickens, Charles | A remarkable presentation set of some of the author's best-loved novels

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21.07.2022 10:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 1009 | Dickens, Charles | A remarkable presentation set of some of the author's best-loved novels
Charles Dickens

Presentation copy of David Copperfield, along with seven other Dickens' titles. London: 1837-1857



The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. 8vo (218 x 138 mm). Autograph letter signed ("Charles Dickens") bound in before half-title, presenting the "set" to James E. Roney, engraved frontispiece, additional title (earlier issue, with date) and 38 plates after Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), front wrapper from Part XVII bound in at end; letter laid into leaf, old folds and some foxing to letter, text with a few stray spots, faint browning and some primarily marginal foxing to a few plates. First book edition, bound from the parts, early issue. Smith I:8.



[With]: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. 8vo (204 x 135 mm). Half-title, printed title-page, 2pp. address by the author, 4pp. preface, 4pp. contents, 2pp. Directions to the Binder/Errata, engraved frontispiece, pictorial title-page and 41 plates by R. Seymour and H.K. Browne ("Phiz"), plates all later issues with publisher's imprint, caption and signature, later issue text throughout, front wrapper from Part XVIII bound in at end; text with a few stray spots, faint browning and some primarily marginal foxing to a few plates. First book edition, bound from the parts, later issue. Smith I:3; Eckel 17-78; Hatton and Cleaver 1-88.



Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz". London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 3 volumes, 8vo (198 x 121 mm). Etched frontispieces and 21 other plates by George Cruikshank, "Fireside" plate in Vol. III, half-titles to Vol. I and II only (as called for), 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end of Vol. I, 2pp. publisher's advertisements at beginning of Vol. III; occasional and minor foxing, browning, and offsetting. First edition, first issue with the "fireside" plate. Smith I:4; Eckel pp. 59-62; Sadleir 696.



Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. 8vo (220 x 138 mm). Half-title, etched frontispiece, pictorial title-page and 38 plates by George Cruikshank, those before p. 120 without publisher's imprint, advertisement leaf dated 15 May 1839, front wrapper from Part XIII (1837) bound in at end; occasional and minor foxing, browning, and offsetting. First octavo one volume edition. Eckel pp. 14-15.



The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. 8vo (220 x 135). Half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece by Daniel Maclise in first state (Chapman and Hall imprint present), 39 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), front wrapper from Part IV bound in at end; closed tear to frontis repaired, occasional and minor foxing, browning, and offsetting, wrapper trimmed. First book edition, bound from the parts. Smith I:5.



Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. 8vo (220 x 130 mm). Half-title, 2-line errata leaf, engraved frontispiece and title-page with 38 plates (including the first ever example of a "dark plate") by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), front wrapper from Part IV bound in at end; occasional and minor foxing, browning, and offsetting, wrapper trimmed. First book edition, bound from the parts. Smith I:8.



Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. 8vo (215 x 135 mm). Half-title, frontispiece, illustrated title-page and 38 plates by or after Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), front and rear wrappers from Part VII bound in at end; occasional and minor foxing, browning, and offsetting, wrappers trimmed. First book edition, bound from the parts. Smith I:10.



Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. 8vo (210 x 130 mm). Frontispiece, illustrated title-page, 40 plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz") including eight dark plates, front wrapper from Part VII bound in at end; occasional and minor foxing, browning, and offsetting, wrapper trimmed. First book edition, bound from the parts. Smith I:12.



All titles uniformly bound in full red morocco, bound by Riviere & Son, covers with multiple gilt rules and central gilt lion and star device replicating Dickens' own bookplate, green morocco second and third spine with raised bands in six compartments, green watered silk doublures, pastedowns of green morocco with gilt-lettered quotations from the respective novels, elaborately gilt inner dentelles, top edges gilt; some joints starting, spines darkened, extremities rubbed, Copperfield rebacked with the original spine laid down. Each volume in custom slipcase.
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