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London, Bradbury & Evans, 1853 1st edition. Hardback 8vo. approx 8.5 x 6 inches. Halfbound green polished calf with marbled paper to boards, gilt banding to spine with gilt lettered leather spine label. Grey endpapers. Speckled page edges. Deighton Binding. In very good condition. Some rubbing and bumps to spine, some rubbing to boards and corners / edges. Binders label to corner of front endpaper “Deighton, Worcester.” Neat inscription to following prelim “George Still Clifton, Ripple Rectory 1850.” There is some mild foxing to plates, but overall very clean and bright compared to most examples of this age, and many plates still remain very clean with only some minor spots around edges. Complete with issue points (see additional notes). Else a very good clean and tight 1st edition. 624pp. Illustrated Frontis., pict.hf.title & 38 B&W etched plates by H.K. Browne. With first issue points, as identified by Eckel: 'elgble' to page 19 line 6,… Read More

1853. London, Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Bound in half calf with four raised bands. Gilt lettering to spine. All 38 plates with tissue guard present. Boards with wear and two plates with marginal discolouring, especially the first two. Otherwise a fine and clean copy. First edition of Dicken's ninth novel, regarded as being one of his finest and one of the most important in the entire history of English literature. Hatton and Cleaver, p. 273.Eckel, p 79.

1853. London, Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Bound in half calf with four raised bands. Gilt lettering to spine. All 38 plates with tissue guard present. Boards with wear and two plates with marginal discolouring, especially the first two. Otherwise a fine and clean copy. First edition of Dicken's ninth novel, regarded as being one of his finest and one of the most important in the entire history of English literature. See: Hatton and Cleaver, p. 273. Eckel, p 79.

Bradbury & Evans. London. 1853. Bradbury & Evans. 1853. First edition. Handsomely bound in two volumes. Half green calf, spines decorated in gilt extra. Marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Two volumes: vol. I, xvi, [1]-320; vol. II, 321-624. 40 engraved plates in total including the frontis. and engr. title. Particularly wonderful are the dark plates, mostly in vol. II. First edition points as called for: page 19, line 6 "elgble", page 209, line 23 "chair" instead of hair, page 275, line 22, "counsinship" instead of cousinship, page 529, line 32 "picter" instead of picture. Boards slightly rubbed, prelims foxed, frontis and title page have half circle stains, some plates have foxing to margins but generally a very clean and fresh set. Please contact us for more details.

1839. London, Chapman and Hall, 1839 - 1857. Octavo. Hardcover / Mid-19th-century Half-Leather with gilt lettering on spine. Original marbled endpapers. Very good condition with only few layers and illustrations loosened and the usual tanning to the illustrations. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. [The David Copperfield Volume has a defect (see detailed description below)]. Perfect collection of first editions to start a Dickens-Collection in contemporary, 19th-century bindings. Condition - Report on the set: 1. Dickens, Charles - Nicholas Nickleby. London, Chapman and Hall, London 1839. First Edition with mixed states (Second and First State). All text errors (first state of first edition points), but one (!), present: On page 123, line 17 already reads corrected "sister" instead of "visiter"; First State points follow in the rest of the publication: "flys" for "flies" on page 245 line 10; "visiters" instead of "visitors" on page 272 line 2; "incontestible" for "incontestable"… Read More