Lot 247: (COLLECTED WORKS) DICKENS, CHARLES. Uniformly bound set of first book editions. 25 vols. London, 1837-1870.

Est: $6,000 USD - $8,000 USD

HindmanChicago, IL, USAugust 12, 2010

Item Overview

Description

(COLLECTED WORKS) DICKENS, CHARLES
A uniformly bound set of Dickens' works, all London: Chapman and Hall or Bradbury and Evans as issued except where notes. First Edition in book form except where noted. 25 vols. total, comprising the following:

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. 1837. -- Nicholas Nickleby. 1839. Later edition. - - Master Humphrey's Clock. 1840-41. 3 vols. bound in 2. -- American Notes. 1842. 2 vols. Second edition. -- Martin Chuzzlewit. 1844. -- Five of the six Christmas Books: The Chimes. 1845. -- The Cricket on the Hearth. 1846 [i.e. December, 1845]. -- The Battle of Life. A Love Story. 1846. -- Pictures from Italy. 1746 -- The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. 1848. - Dombey and Son. 1848. -- David Copperfield. 1850. -- Bleak House. 1853. -- Hard Times. 1854. -- Little Dorrit. 1857. With "Rigaud" uncorrected. -- The Poor Traveller: Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn: Mrs. Gamp. 1858. Original wraps bound in. -- A Tale of Two Cities. 1859. First edition, second impression, with corrected p. 213, but correct date to title page. -- Great Expectations. 1861. 3 vols. Vols. 2 and 3 are first impressions (vol. 3 conforms with all but 3 points in Clarendon edition, pointing to a later state within the first impression), vol. 1 is fourth edition. -- Our Mutual Friend. 1865. 2 vols. -- Edwin Drood. 1870. With three-page manuscript account to p. 190 and original yellow rear endpapers, transcribing an article from Graphic, August 11, 1888.

Various sizes, all green morocco over cloth gilt-stamped, gilt-stamped spines and title in gilt to leather spine labels. Four of the five Christmas books (all but Picture of Italy) finely bound in full green morocco stamped in geometric block design with titles stamped in gilt to front boards, royal purple and green leather gilt-stamped dentelles, original cloth and spine tipped to endpapers. Conditions vary; most lacking half-titles and advertisements; foxing to most volumes; boards sturdy to all vols.; full condition report available upon request.

Artist or Maker

Chapman (1871)

Condition Report

Spine ends are in good condition with chipping to the head only on the two volumes of Barnaby Rudge; all volumes with some rubbing and edgewear and fading to the spines; 4 vols. of Christmas Books, which are distinguished by fine binding, have offsetting to the endpapers from the leather inner dentelles; otherwise hinges are tight and bindings are in good condition.

Notes

Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois

Auction Details

Fine Books and Manuscripts

Hindman

August 12, 2010, 12:00 PM CST

1338 West Lake Street, Chicago, IL, 60607, US

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