Estimate: | £500 - £800 |
Hammer price: | £400 |
BINDINGS - Charles Dickens (1812-70). A Selection of 12 Works in 13 volumes comprising: The Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. ... Complete in One Volume (London: Chapman and Hall, 1841); Barnaby Rudge; A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty ... Complete in One Volume (London: Chapman and Hall, 1841); The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (London: Chapman and Hall, 1844, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, with the errata leaf, sometimes lacking); Dombey and Son (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM); The Personal History of David Copperfield (London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM); Bleak House (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM); The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (London: Chapman and Hall, 1857); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (London: Chapman and Hall, 1857); Sketches by Boz illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People ... New Edition, Complete (London: Chapman and Hall, 1859); A Tale of Two Cities (London: Chapman and Hall, 1860); Little Dorrit (London: Chapman and Hall, 1863); Our Mutual Friend (London: Chapman and Hall, 1865, 2 volumes, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM), various sizes (occasional light spotting and staining, but generally remarkably clean and fresh internally), FINELY BOUND in uniform later brown half morocco, spines gilt in compartments with small repeated foliate motifs, top edges gilt. (13)