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DICKENS, Charles (1812-70) – A COMPLETE SET OF MAJOR AND AN ALMOST COMPLETE SET OF MINOR WORKS, MOST IN FIRST EDITION, THE 49 VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND IN GILT-TOOLED RED MOROCCO BY WALLIS.
DICKENS, Charles (1812-70) – A COMPLETE SET OF MAJOR AND AN ALMOST COMPLETE SET OF MINOR WORKS, MOST IN FIRST EDITION, THE 49 VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND IN GILT-TOOLED RED MOROCCO BY WALLIS. Major works: 1. Sketches by Boz (1839), first collected edition. (Lacks half-title); 2. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1837). 8°. 20 extra plates by William Heath front wrapper to Heath’s “Twenty Plates” bound in at end. No Buss plates. An autograph letter signed from Dickens to G. Zavan, 1 Devonshire Terrace, 9 February 1849, 2 pages, 8vo ., thanking him for a poem, tipped in at front; 3. Oliver Twist (1838, 3 vols). Second issue with ‘Rose Maylie and Oliver’ plate and leaf with list of illustrations; 4. Nicholas Nickleby (1839). FIRST ISSUE, with ‘visiter’ on p.123 and ‘latter’ on p.160; 5. Master Humphrey’s Clock (1840-1841, 3 vols). Extra-illustrated with 8 plates by H.K. Browne; 6. Martin Chuzzlewit (1844). Reward notice on the sign-post not transposed. (Lacks errata leaf); 7. Dombey and Son (1848). Extra-illustrated with 12 portrait plates by H.K. Browne, the two front wrappers to the extra plates bound in. 2-line errata slip; 8. David Copperfield (1850); 9. Bleak House (1853); 10. Hard Times (1854); 11. Little Dorrit (1857). FIRST ISSUE, with p. 371 signed ‘B2’ and ‘Rigaud’ for ‘Blandois’ in chapter 17; 12. A Tale of Two Cities (1859). 8°. FIRST STATE with p. 213 mispaginated as 113; 13 . Great Expectations (1861, 3 vols). Extra illustrated with 21 etched plates by Pailthorpe, no. 20 of 50 copies with his proof plates on Japanese paper, printed in black. With the early issue points; 14. Our Mutual Friend (1865, 2 vols. in one) (Lacks inserted slip.); 15. The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870). Various 8° sizes. Etched plates as called for. Sample wrappers bound in. ALL FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM (except Boz ). Minor works: 16. Sketches of Young Couples (1840); 17. American Notes (1842, 2 vols); 18. A Christmas Carol (1843). Second issue (third state), with blue half title, red and blue title, Stave One; 19. The Chimes (1845 [December 1844]); 20. The Cricket on the Hearth (1846 [December 1845]); 21. The Haunted Man (1848). All four Christmas books with original cloth covers and spine bound in; 22. Christmas Stories from Household Words (1850-58). An autograph letter signed by Dickens to Edward Pigott, 49 Avenue des Champs Elysées, 13 November 1855, 3 pages, 8vo ., bound in, discussing business, his social plans and mentioning that ‘Wiles my Household Words sub-editor has just arrived here to make up the Xmas No’; 23. The Story of Little Dombey (1858); 24. The Poor Traveller (1858); 25. A Curious Dance round a Curious Tree (1860). Second issue “pink” wrappers preserved; 26. The Uncommercial Traveller (1861 [1860)]; 27. Hunted Down [1870]. Related Works: 28. The Village Coquettes (1836); 29. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838, 2 vols); 30. The Pic Nic Papers , edited by Dickens (1841, 3 vols); 31. Over, John. Evenings of a Working Man (1844). Preface by Dickens; 32. To be read at Dusk (1852). A forgery by T.J. Wise. With 7 other titles by or relating to Dickens, including a 19th-entury facsimile of The Strange Gentleman, and one box (containing five “Pamphlets”). Provenance: Sir Charles Philip Huntingdon, 3rd Baronet (bookplate) – J.G.F. Lund (bookplate). A SUMPTUOUSLY BOUND-SET OF DICKENS’S WORKS IN REMARKABLE CONDITION, ONLY ONE VOLUME NOT UNIFORM, ALMOST ALL IN FIRST EDITION . The only part of the canon not included are Sketches of Young Gentlemen, Pictures from Italy, The Battle of Life , and A Child's History of England .