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Author: Dickens, Charles
Title: Eight volumes of the work of Charles Dickens
Place Published: London
Publisher:Chapman & Hall
Date Published: [1850s-60s]
Description:

8 (of 10) volumes. Illustrated with numerous engraved plates. (8vo), uniformly bound in period half calf, beige pebbled-cloth boards, backstrips with gilt panels and title strips in red and black morocco also stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Early Editions.

8 of 10 volumes from a uniformly bound set of Dicken‘s work, titled to the backstrips as "Dickens‘s Works." Early editions reprinted in the first edition formats.

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  Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, & For Exportation. 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and title vignette. Early edition, reprinted in the first edition format, illustrated by H. K. Browne. n.d. [circa 1865].

  
  


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  The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. 40 engraved plates including frontisportrait. Illustrated by Phiz.? Early edition, reprinted in the first edition format. n.d. [c1860?].

  
  


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  The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. 40 engraved plates including frontisportrait. Illustrated by Phiz.? Early edition, reprinted in the first edition format. n.d. [c1860?].

  
  


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  Little Dorrit. 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and title vignette. illustrated by H. K. Browne. Early edition, reprinted in the first edition format. n.d. [circa 1857]

  
  


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  Our Mutual Friend. Two vols. in one. 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and title vignette. illustrated by Marcus Stone. Early edition, reprinted in the first edition format.

  
  


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  The Personal History of David Copperfield. 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and title vignette. The last page of text in this copy is torn and lacking the upper half of the leaf (page 623). n.d. [circa 1865].

  
  


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  The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. 43 engraved plates including frontispiece and title vignette. illustrated by R. Seymour and "Phiz. Early edition, reprinted in the first edition format. n.d. [circa 1860s?].

  
  


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  Sketches By Boz Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and title vignette. illustrated by George Cruikshank. Early edition, reprinted in the first edition format.

  
  

Light wear and rubbing to bindings; occasional foxing to plates, The last page of text in David Copperfield is torn and lacking the upper half of the leaf; overall a very good, solid set.