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Lot Is Closed DICKENS, CHARLES - 6 VOLS - First Editions
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DICKENS, CHARLES - 6 VOLS - First Editions
Starting Bid: $450
Estimate:
$600 - $800
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174: Rare Books
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DICKENS, CHARLES - 6 VOLS
First Editions

1. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall 1836, first edition complete with 43 illustrations by R. Seymour & Phiz.
2. The Personal History of David Copperfield. London" Bradbury & Evans 1850, first edition.
Complete with 40 plates by H.K. Browne including frontis and title page vignette.
3. Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury & Evans 1848, first edition. Illustrated by H.K. Browne. fifty plates, they include the 38 plates plus frontis and title page as listed on the list of Plates page. Also 12 other plates, four are oval portraits, with Chapman & Hall The Strand [no dates] and eight engravings with the Chapman and Hall imprint dated 1848.
4. Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury & Evans 1857, first edition. 40 plates by H.K. Browne including frontis and title page vignette. Some of the plates trimmed to the imprint.
5. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewitt. London: Chapman & Hall 1844. Illustrated by Phiz. 40 plates including frontis and title page vignette. The last plate The Nuptials of Miss Pecksniff receives a temporary check', is bound in at the List of Plates page and the foredge is frayed with loss.
6. Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans 1853. Illustrations by H.K. Browne. 39 plates including frontis.
All volumes have been uniformly rebound in green cloth, titled in gilt to spine, original endpapers have been bound in, apart from Bleak house. Spasmodic browning to the plates as usual some heavier that other, text is mainly clean.