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Dickens, Charles. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and Exportation. Chapman and Hall, Limited, London, 1870.

Price: US$23.40 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A Very Good Set in matching Red Buckram lettered in gilt. Vol. XIII in the Library Edition. Volume I is a little faded and soiled but still a nice copy. A Firm and tight set. Undated but published between 1860 - 1870. Neat Name and date 1875 to title page.

Seller: Fountain Books (Steve Moody), Eastleigh, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Two Volumes.. Chapman and Hall, Limited, London, 1870.

Price: US$32.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A Very Good + Set in Two Volumes, Buckram red lettered in Gilt. A Really nice and attractive set Vol. III in the Library Edition. Undated but published between 1860 and 1870

Seller: Fountain Books (Steve Moody), Eastleigh, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. The Uncommercial Traveller. Chapman and Hall ca. 1870, London, 1870.

Price: US$39.01 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: [vi], 174 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and lettering and decoration to front cover. With full page and in text illustrations. Rubbing to spine and corners and a stain to the foot of the rear cover. Some crinkling and minor foxing to prelims. The Works of Charles Dickens Household Edition. Large 8vo. Illustrated

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ''Eighty'. Chapman and Hall, (Circa 1870s), London, 1870.

Price: US$39.01 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: x, 322 pp., Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and lettering and decoration to front cover. Some wear to the edges of the boards and chipping to the spine. Slight wear to the front hinge with webbing visible. Bookplate to front pastedown and minor foxing throughout. Illustrated with 46 illustrations in black and white by F. Barnard. The Works of Charles Dickens Household Edition. Large 8vo. Illustrated

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. Sketches by Boz. Chapman and Hall ca. 1870, London, 1870.

Price: US$39.01 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: viii, 240 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and lettering and decoration to front cover. With full page and in text b&w illustrations throughout. Wear to extremities. Slight marking to boards. Bookplate to front pastedown and minor foxing throughout. The Works of Charles Dickens Household Edition. Large 8vo. Illustrated

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. The Old Curiosity Shop. Chapman & Hall ca. 1870, London, 1870.

Price: US$39.01 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: vi, 274 pp. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt and black decoration to the front cover. With plates and in-text b&w illustrations throughout. Rubbing to the spine and corners and some markings to cloth. Foxing to prelims and some minor foxing throughout. The works of Charles Dickens household edition. 8vo. Illustrated

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Chapman and Hall 1870, London, 1870.

Price: US$65.01 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The 'Charles Dickens Edition'. vii, 540 pp. 8 black and white plates including frontis. Original publisher's cloth with bevelled edges and Dickens' signature in gilt to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Spotting to edges, affecting edges of some leaves throughout. The Works of Charles Dickens in Eighteen Volumes. Vol. X. 8vo.

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit : with Eight Illustrations (One missing). Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.

Price: US$65.01 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Title Page dated 1870. Printed by Virtue & Co. Includes Preface by Dickens. Illustrated with 7 Full-Page Plates (the frontis is missing). Contemporary Brown Half-Leather Binding with Brown cloth-covered boards and Leather Corners. 5 Raised Bands to spine with "Dickens Works" on Red Ground in 2nd Compartment and "Little Dorrit" in 4th. Gilt Decoration in others. Endpapers and all Page edges Marbled. Text enclosed within ruled margins. 522 Pages, 580g, 7" Tall. Some wear at top of spine and small bits of leather missing from left side of spine (see photos). Edge wear to cloth. 3 corners worn. Rear hinge slightly cracked. Frontis missing. No inscriptions. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall

Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. Barnaby Rudge (Volume I and II w/Hard Times). Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.

Price: US$81.02 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A nice two-volume set of an unknown printing, (no date ca. 1870), Volumes 9 and 10 of an unknown printing of "Dicken's Works". Volume II also contains "Hard Times" Near Fine -/Very Good +. Beautiful full decorated full leather with five raised bands and six panels to spine with intricate gold decorations to spine and board edges. Spine with gilt lettered title to third panel and "Dickens's Works" to second panel. Marbled text edges and front and rear pastedowns Text is tight and clean. Lettering to spine is bright and only very lightly flaked. Volume I hinges professionally reparied, Volume II rear board barely attached. Previous owners' impressed stamp to front fly leaves. Not ex-lib. Not a Book Club Edition. This is a nice copy at a very good price. Compare and see. Photos sent upon request. Accurate Descriptions/Quality Books/Unmatched Prices. Two volume set - international shipping extra. Please inquire.

Seller: Novel Ending Books, Franklin, TN, U.S.A.

DICKENS, Charles. Little Dorrit. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Chapman and Hall [1870s]., 1870.

Price: US$97.51 + shipping

Description: 8vo, xiv, 625, (1) pp. Publisher's olive cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, blindstamped decorations. Illustrated second title and 39 plates. Sunning to the spine, slight patchiness plus a few small chips to the boards, the upper margin of one leaf (pp. 127/8) torn but without loss of text, else very good. A Chapman and Hall edition, probably stereotyped, of a work first published in 1857 by Bradbury and Evans. The binding of this edition closely matching the original edition with the addition of the new publishers' names at the foot of the spine.

Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom

DICKENS, Charles.. The Uncommercial Traveller. Charles Dickens edn.. Chapman & Hall. 1870, 1870.

Price: US$122.22 + shipping

Description: Series & half titles, front. sl. damp-marked in top outer corner, illus. Orig. smooth green cloth, bevelled boards, lettered in gilt; inner hinges sl. cracked, else v.g. Expanded to 28 papers. No. 28 wrongly numbered 'XVIII'. In an unusual green cloth, and with a half title advertising, 'The Works of Charles Dickens, in eighteen volumes'.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. Christmas Books. Chapman and Hall 1870, London, 1870.

Price: US$123.52 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 256 pp. Full green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and front cove . With 8 black and white plates. Rubbing to the spine and edges and foxing to the extremities of leaves. Vol IX from an 18 volume set of the works of Charles Dickens. Includes 'A Christmas Carol'. 8vo. Illustrated

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom

Charles Dickens. All The Year Round New Series Volume III from December 4, 1869 to May 28, 1870 including No.53 to No. . 78. Chapman and Hall, 1870.

Price: US$145.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Thus; attractive green embossed cloth with bright gilt lettering on front and spine, corners frayed showing board, some minor spots, two non distracting dings, ends are soiled and light foxing throughout, there are no internal marking, pages tones with age but still overall good. This is an important collection of Dicken's last works as owner of All The Year Round as he deceased in June of 1870 and willed the publication to his son. More images available upon request

Seller: Rare Reads, Athens, GA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles; [Illustrated by S. L. Fildes]. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. With Twelve Illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a Portrait. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. vii,(1),190pp. The first edition in book form with all the proper text points and the Fildes illustrations but without the ads at rear. 3/4 green morocco, gilt, over textured green cloth. Spine with five raised bands. Steel engraved frontispiece portrait of Dickens. Added engraved title with a large vignette. Illustrated with 12 woodcut plates. Hinges and extremities rubbed but sound. This work, Dickens' last book, was originally issued in wrappers in six parts. At the time of his death he had not yet written the 7th and final part, and to this day the identity of Edwin Drood's killer remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of literature. Sadleir, M. 19th cent. fiction,; 694; Wolff, R.L. 19th cent. fiction,; 1805; Podeschi, J.B. Dickens & Dickensiana,; A155; Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens,; B277.

Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

Dickens, Charles,:. The Mystery of Edwin Drood,. London Chapman Hall, 1870.

Price: US$156.02 + shipping

Description: First Edition: Hardback, original brown bds., gold spinal titles, 140 x 220 mm., 500g., 190 pp.+ 2pp.' Charles Dickens's Works', title pages loose at lower edge, illustrated with 12 illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a Portrait, foxing to eps. and some margins, bds. worn and faded, ring mark on front bd, text block detached at rear from case, Good- copy.

Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, 193 Picadilly, 1870.

Price: US$195.03 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: With twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a Portrait; publisher's catalogue at rear; 8vo., vii [1] 190 [2] pp.; recently rebacked in quarter calf, mustard yellow dappled spine with five raised bands, contrasting black label, gilt title and ornate lines over grey marbled boards; plates lightly foxed in margins and very occasionally throughout, otherwise good clean copy of Dicken's last unfinished work, nicely bound.

Seller: Celsus Books, PBFA., London, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. With Twelve illustrations by S. L. files. And a Portrait.. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.

Price: US$195.03 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Bound from the parts. Contemporary half calf, spine with five raised bands, gilt title and ornate gilt panels, marbled boards and endpapers; 8vo., pp. vii, [1],190. Pagination runs - author’s portrait frontispiece, illustrated title page, title page, publisher’s note, contents and list of illustrations. Lightly foxed throughout, corners and edges slightly rubbed, top of front cover a little sunned but a nice binding. An attractive copy of the author’s final, unfinished work.

Seller: Celsus Books, PBFA., London, United Kingdom

Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, 1870.

Price: US$195.03 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardback,190pp with 12 illustrations by S L Fildes and a portrait. Collated as per Eckel.Possibly bound from parts as the small binding holes are showing.Attractive red leather spine with gilt titling. Internally foxed, quite heavily in places.Owners bookplate to inside front board and the pastedown ep is creased (during the binding process).the red cloth textured baords habe some bumping to corners and on both front and rear boards there is a patch where the red has been sunned/faded.very light wear to head and food of leather spine. Overall a good+ volume of Dickens last and unfinished work.

Seller: moorland books, Oldham, LANCS, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. The personal history of David Copperfield. Vol. 1 u. 2. ( so kpl. ). London, Chapman and Hall, 193, Picccadilly 1870 ( ca. )., 1870.

Price: US$198.97 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 446, 460 S. ( Works of Charles Dickens, Library Ed. ) Buch in gutem Zustand, N.a.V., wenige Seiten fleckig, Rücken ausgeblichen, Printed by Virtue and Co. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 800 8° , Leinen m. goldgepr. Rückentitel,

Seller: Allgäuer Online Antiquariat, Memmingen, DE, Germany

Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.

Price: US$227.53 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A first edition, bound from the parts, of Charles Dickens' last and unfinished novel, illustrated by S. L. Fildes. The first edition of this work in a half calf binding. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece of Dickens with a facsimile signature and the date 1870; an engraved title page complete with vignette; and twelve further plates. Collated, complete. 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' was Dickens' final work, left unfinished upon his death in June 1870; of the twelve instalments planned, only six had been written. As Dickens hadn't left a clear or detailed plan as to the continuation or resolution of the plot, the 'Mystery' was left unsolved. Illustrated throughout by Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, a British painter and illustrator. This copy complies with all issue points for the first impression according to Eckel (p.97), but is lacking the cover wraps for each part and the advertisements. In a half calf binding. Externally fairly smart, though rubbed to the spine and extremities, with light shelf wear to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age toned with the occasional spot. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles.. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, 1870.

Price: US$227.53 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Genuine 1st.* Imp: 1st. Thus.* Date of Publication: 1870* Publisher: * Binding and cover condition: Mid green cloth heavily marked except to spine which is somewhat darkened, gilt title to red spine label & gilt decoration to head and tail of spine. No bumps, minor rubs, some slight shelf wear to edges and corners. GD* Jacket condition: No dust jacket. ND* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Lemon yellow end papers. Clean, crisp, and bright with some slight foxing to a few pages. Minor reading wear, a few pages slightly loose, no annotations or inscriptions to text, top and fore edge somewhat aged. 2 ½? tear to page 69/70 without loss. Part One front blue cover page frayed and re-inforced with paper strip. All edges rough cut. GD+.* Illustrations: Engraved portrait of author with facsimile signature to frontis and facing print of a scene showing Rochester Castle and the River Medway with twelve prints by S.L. Filder.* Pages: 190 pp. text. iii pp. list of Charles Dickens works & blank page at rear.* Description: This is the Charles Dickens, Mystery of Edwin Drood first edition in book form published posthumously by Chapman and Hall in 1870. The issue points of spelling and printing in this book conform exactly to those listed by Walter E. Smith in his book ?Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth Part 1? Although printed with continuous page numbers to 190 and chapters from 1 to 23, the book consists of six individually printed sections from No.1 in April 1870 through to No.6 dated September 1870 bound together with the blue external covers showing the generic illustration to the front and advertisements for Chappells Pianos, Messrs Howell, James and Co. wedding and birthday presents and Parkins and Gatto?s gift shop.* A NEAR GD+ copy with minor age & wear in a heavily marked boards.* 1870-01-01

Seller: Cocksparrow Books, Salisbury, WILTS, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWN DROOD. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo. First edition in second issue binding. Bound in original green cloth with gilt lettering and black design spine and front cover. Two thin black ruled borders front cover. Yellow endpapers. Engraved portrait and title page and 12 full page plates by S. L. Fildes. Mild cover edge wear, foxing and small dampstain on engraved portrait and title page, owner name and library blindstamp ffep. Pencil notes at page titled "Charles Dickens's Works". 190 pp., ads and monthly catalogue at rear.

Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.

DICKENS, Charles.. Edwin Drood.. Chapman & Hall. 1870, 1870.

Price: US$257.43 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, b.f.t.p. Front., engr. title & plates by S.L. Fildes, final ad. leaf; some light foxing. Contemp. half dark green morocco, spine with raised gilt bands; sl. rubbed. A good-plus copy. Spine lettered 'Dickens' Works' 'Edwin Drood'.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

DICKENS, CHARLES.. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. With Twelve Illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a Portrait.. Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly., London., 1870.

Price: US$260.03 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo., 8.75 X 6 inches. vii + [i] + 190 pp. + [2] pp. publisher's list, Charles Dickens's Works. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, decorated in gilt and black, with gilt block; new pastedown endpapers with original spine. A little wear to extremities, including head and tail of spine, slight darkening of spine and edges and some foxing of preliminaries, edges and margins; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette title page and by 12 engraved plates. Dickens's unfinished last novel. This first edition has the primary binding with the sawtooth border. The copy is unusual in having two pages of advertisements, whereas Smith notes no pages or thirty two pages for the primary binding version. (Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, p. 111-117). ART / LITERATURE DICKENS LIT. FICTION 19TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION ART / LITERATURE

Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom

DICKENS, Charles.. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD.. Chapman and Hall., London, 1870.

Price: US$264.59 + shipping

Description: pp. viii, 190, (ii) of adverts. Frontis portrait, engraved title and 12 plates, all by S.l. Fildes. 8vo. Half green morocco with gilt decoration, all edges gilt. Tipped in on the front endpapers are a newspaper cutting reportting the death of Sir Luke Fildes and the front part of the original wrapper for Part III of this work. 1st edition. Sadleir 694. Smith p. 114.

Seller: Alex Alec-Smith ABA ILAB PBFA, Everthorpe, United Kingdom

Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.

Price: US$299.04 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Early edition of this social novel by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Phiz. A social novel following Amy Dorrit, who was born and raised in the Marshalsea debtors prison, where Dickens' own father was imprisoned. Dickens satirises some shortcomings of both government and society, as well as being critical of the bureaucracy of the British government and the British class system. An early edition, meeting first issue points listed by John C Eckel in his work The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens, 1913: with three line Errata on page xiv; 'William' instead of 'Frederick' on line twenty seven, page 317; B2 instead of BB2 on page 371; but without date to title page and correct use of 'Blandois' to pp. 469-73.This remarkable novel denounces a Victorian society obsessed with money and power.Illustrated with thirty eight plates by H K Browne as well as frontispiece and additional engraved title page. Collated, complete, including all the eight dark plates. Rebound in half calf over marbled boards and edges, marbled endpapers. Externally sound with minor shelf wear, back strip faded, lightly rubbed to head and tail of spine, joints, and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to endpapers, otherwise pages generally bright and clean. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles.. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. Lon. Chapman and Hall. 1870., 1870.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: First English Edition of Dickens' last novel over which he collapsed and died before completing it. With 12 Illustrations by S.L. Fildes, and a portrait of Dickens signed in facsimile and dated 1870. With a cataogue of Dickens' works bound in at the rear. VG in quarter leather and leather tips with gilt stamping on the binding. Bound in marble paper-covered boards. Front hinge tender. With a little shelf wear to the edges. First English Edition of Dickens' last novel over which he collapsed and died before completing it.

Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.

DICKENS, Charles.. Edwin Drood.. Chapman & Hall. 1870, 1870.

Price: US$500.56 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, b.f.t.p. Front. & engr. title, additional printed title, plates by S.L. Fildes. Contemp. full tan calf, spine gilt in compartments, boards with double-ruled gilt borders; spine sl. rubbed, the odd mark, but still an attractive clean copy, with the armorial bookplate of Lewis John Berger. An attractive copy of Dickens's final work, which remained tantalisingly unfinished at the time of his death. Dickens left very little indication as to how the work was to continue, and it became the focus of much speculation, spawning a minor literary industry as enthusiasts vied with one another to provide a satisfactory conclusion to the novel - and they still do so.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. Chapman & Hall, 1870.

Price: US$585.08 + shipping

Description: 222 x 140mm, contemporary dark green half calf, panelled spine ornamented in gilt, red leather lettering-piece, gilt, pp.vii, 190, portrait frontispiece engraved by J H Baker, from a photograph taken in 1868, by Mason & Co., engraved title, 12 full-page engraved plates. The six monthly parts, bound with the original blue-green printed wrappers dated May & June 1870, The Edwin Drood Advertiser (Part I), pp,5-38, Part II, pp.1-20, Part III, pp.1-20, Part IV, pp.1-24, Part V, pp.1-20, Part VI, pp.1-18, Chapman & Hall's Recent Publications (8pp), with the flyer for 'All the Year Round' No.79, various other advertisements for The Scottish Widows' Fund, Dr De Jongh's Cod Liver Oil, Chapmen & Co's Entire Wheat Flour (4pp), Cassell, Petter & Galpin (4pp), sewing machines (8pp), Chapman & Hall's 'Select Library of Fiction' dated March 1870 (6pp) & Henry Brett & Co. dated June 8th, 1854 (4pp). Lacks the 'Cork Hat' advertisement. Bookplate. A little scattered foxing. Professional repairs have been made to two of the wrappers, one defective advertisement leaf, and to outer joints at tail of spine. An attractive copy of the author's last work, containing the advertisements where clues deemed necessary for the solution of the mystery may be found.

Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with "Tower" on p1, "sentiment" on p131, "years" on p149, no "very" on p168, and "reflection" on p 169 [Smith: Octavo. In a period full gilt calf extra binding with the original front cover bound in, with one original pictorial wrap bound in in back . [i-v]vi-vii[viii], [1]2-190, (2)pp. list of Dickens' works., 32pp. publisher's catalog, bound in back, rare thus most 1sts of Drood lack these ads, thirteen plates by Fildes, including the vignette title and a frontispiece portrait of Dickens.

Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.

DICKENS, CHARLES:. The Works of Charles Dickens. "The Charles Dickens Edition" . In 21 volumes.. Chapman & Hall. 1868-1870, 1870.

Price: US$715.09 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 21 volumes, comprising 19 out of 21 titles plus 2 volumes of LIFE. In half calf leather binding with gilt to spine. Raised bands. Cloth boards, Marbled edges and endpapers. In good condition. A few edges slightly rubbed. A couple of boards slightly rubbed, with a few marks on leather edges. Tale of two cities small chip head of spine. Inside one or two pages very slightly proud, some light tanning, Christmas Stories volume pages 242 to 252 damaged top edge. Else clean and tight copies. Size 7 x 5 inches Profusely illustrated with over 100 engr.plates by Phiz, Cruikshank, etc.,(the novels usually have 8 plates each). Facsimile signature near front with owner?s neat inscription opposite. Oliver Twist-A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Nicholas Nickleby, Our Mutual Friend, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Hard Times-Pictures from Italy, Great Expectations, American Notes-Reprinted Pieces-Commercial Traveller, Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, David Copperfield, Sketches by Boz, Christmas Books plus 2 volumes of LIFE. Not present Little Dorrit, Dombey and Son,

Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. The Works of Charles Dickens, in eighteen volumes. The Charles Dickens Edition, uniformly bound in 14 volumes. Chapman & Hall, 1870.

Price: US$728.09 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 170 x 118mm, half calf, panelled spines, gilt, red leather lettering-pieces, gilt, ruled & ornamented in blind, greyish green stippled cloth sides, marbled edges. Printed by Virtue & Co. Each volume contains eight illustrations (including frontispiece). Four volumes include more than one work, viz. Barnaby Rudge & Christmas Books, A Tale of Two Cities & American Notes, Great Expectations, Hard Times & Pictures from Italy, Oliver Twist & The Uncommercial Traveller. The total number of individual titles (given occasional internal volume numbers) is therefore nineteen (i.e. not eighteen, as stated on half-titles), but Master Humphrey’s Clock is not present. Seven of the volumes are dated 1870, the others are undated. Dickens himself revised the text of this authoritative edition, adding running titles at the head of the right-hand pages. The facsimile of his autograph (which gives this edition its name) appears below his portrait frontispiece in The Personal History of David Copperfield. The dedication page of the first volume (The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club) states “This edition of my books is (as The Library Edition was) inscribed to my dear friend John Forster, biographer of Oliver Goldsmith, in grateful remembrance of the many patient hours he devoted to the correction of the proof sheets of the original editions; and in affectionate acknowledgment of his counsel, sympathy, and faithful friendship, during my whole literary life.” Some minor wear. Near very good.

Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

DICKENS, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. With 12 illustrations by S L. Fildes, and a portrait. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, six parts (all published, unfinished at the author's death) issued April -- September, 1870. 8vo. vii, (1), 190, (2) total pages. Engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title-page, 12 plates. With all advertising matter, as called for by Hatton & Cleaver, present, with the exception of the 8-page Chapman & Hall catalogue in part five; Willcox & Gibbs ad in part six in state "1A," with no priority mentioned. Cork ad present (chipped), printed price slip at head of part six; front ads in Part II lacking one leaf (pp. 19-20). Hatton & Cleaver "A Bibliography of the Periodical works of Charles Dickens" London, 1933), pp. 371-384. Original illustrated blue-green wrappers (parts 1-4 with repair to spines, neatly glued and firm, and with several small losses replaced with new matching paper, parts 5 & 6 neatly rebacked; some soiling, some edgewear, a little light foxing and soiling to the text and plates, with some glassine sheets guarding plates replaced), several parts with an owner's name at the head of the front wrapper. Housed in a green quarter morocco (rubbed) and cloth pull-off slipcase, gilt spine title, with chemise (11168).

Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.

DICKENS, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. With 12 illustrations by S L. Fildes, and a portrait. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, six parts (all published, unfinished at the author's death) issued April -- September, 1970. 8vo. vii, (1), 190, (2) total pages. Engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title-page, 12 plates. With all advertising matter, as called for by Hatton & Cleaver, present, with the exception of the 8-page Chapman & Hall catalogue in part five; Willcox & Gibbs ad in part six in state "1A," with no priority mentioned. Cork ad present (chipped), printed price slip at head of part six; front ads in Part II lacking one leaf (pp. 19-20). Hatton & Cleaver "A Bibliography of the Periodical works of Charles Dickens" London, 1933), pp. 371-384. Original illustrated blue-green wrappers (parts 1-4 with repair to spines, neatly glued and firm, and with several small losses replaced with new matching paper, parts 5 & 6 neatly rebacked; some soiling, some edgewear, a little light foxing and soiling to the text and plates, with some glassine sheets guarding plates replaced), several parts with an owner's name at the head of the front wrapper. Housed in a green quarter morocco (rubbed) and cloth pull-off slipcase, gilt spine title, with chemise (11168).

Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.

DICKENS, CHARLES. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. Chapman and Hall, 1870., London, 1870.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition in book form. With twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a portrait. Octavo, recently bound in a period style binding of three quarter morocco over marbled paper boards, the spine with raised bands decorated and ruled gilt in compartments, contrasting red title label, by Byzantium Bindery. 190 pp, Frontispiece portrait of Dickens and Vignette title page, twelve full-page engravings inserted within the text. With all textual errors, as called for by Walter E. Smith in CHARLES DICKENS IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH (1981). A few pages with small corner creases, a few minor stains to the margins; overall a very clean, attractive copy in fine modern binding, very handsome and pleasing. This remains one of the great unfinished and unsolved literary mysteries. Only three serial parts were written when Dickens died on June 9, 1870, publication of the work continued, and on completion with part 6 of all available material, the vast army of readers was left high and dry as to "The Mystery." This copy is lightly foxed, else in fine condition and handsomely bound in three-quarter leather and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, and titles stamped in gold gilt on the spine. Haycraft/Queen Cornerstone.

Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.

Charles Dickens. The Works 23 Works in 18 Books. Chapman & Hall, 1870.

Price: US$975.13 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1870, estimate, undated. 23 works bound in 18 volumes. Very attractive set, green half leather binding with gree boards. Six compartmets with 5 raised bands. Gilt titles and tooling to spines. Marbled endpapers. Some fading to some of the spines. Well illustrated. Works as follows: Reprinted pieces/Hard Times, Dombey and Son, Barnaby Rudge,Sketches by Boz, Life of Dickens, Pickwick Papers, American Notes/Childs History of England,Oliver Twist/Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations/Uncommercial traveller, Christmas Books/Edwin Drood, Christmas Stories, Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House, Old Curiosity Shop, David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, Martin Chuzzlewit. Images upon request.

Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

Dickens, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD .. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi-vii [viii] [1] 2-190 [191-192: ads], engraved portrait, engraved title, and twelve inserted plates with illustrations by S. L. Fildes, publisher's decorated green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, rear panel stamped in black, cream coated endpapers. First edition, primary binding. Dickens' last work, left unfinished at the time of his death. ". one of most compelling of all literary puzzles." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, p. 206. Smith I, 16. Gimbel A155. Sadleir 694. Wolff 1805. Dunninger bookplate affixed to the front free endpaper. Corners turned, faint stain to fore-edge margin of one plate, a very good copy with tight inner hinges and clean, bright cover. An attractive, superior copy of this book. (#173066)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

DICKENS, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. Chapman & Hall, 1870.

Price: US$1072.64 + shipping

Description: First edition. Adverts dated May 1872. Bound by Lewis & Harris of Bath in half red morocco over red cloth with raised bands and gilt titles and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. A very good copy indeed, with small stains to the margins of the plates facing pages 157, 173 and 183. A touch of fading to the spine. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens and twelve full page illustrations by S.L. Fildes. Dickens began the writing of what would be his final novel in the summer of 1869. It would appear that the work gave the author more trouble than any of his former novels and he revised and corrected his work continually, sometimes entirely remodelling sections. The first monthly part was issued in April 1870, but at the time Dickens was suffering periodically from a local haemorrhage and trouble in his foot in between bouts of comparative good health. On 8 June 1870 Dickens's final and fatal seizure came and he passed away peacefully on the following day. Longfellow, on hearing of Dickens's death wrote to Forster expressing a hope that Drood was finished, "It is certainly one of his most beautiful works, if not the most beautiful of all, It would be too sad to think the pen had fallen from his hand, and left it incomplete!"

Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom

DICKENS, Charles.. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870, 1870.

Price: US$1137.65 + shipping

Description: First edition in book form, scarce in the original cloth in such nice condition. This copy is in Smith's binding variant A, described by Kremers as "primary and earlier" (p. 243), with the sawtooth border to the front board and the rear board stamped in black rather than in blind. The Mystery of Edwin Drood was projected to be published in twelve monthly parts, but Dickens had only completed six parts when he died of a stroke. The finished parts of the novel were gathered and published in the present book form the month following his death, but Dickens had left no notes or instructions for how the novel was to be completed, and as a result "soon a whole Drood 'industry' (which still flourishes today) grew up, concerned with providing a plausible solution to the mystery" (ODNB). Kremers pp. 242-3; Smith 16. Octavo. Original green bead-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt and decoratively stamped in black, sawtooth and double-line border to front board in black enclosing elaborate black dot-and-line work and gilt lettering, four-line border enclosing central shield device to rear board in black, yellow coated endpapers. Portrait frontispiece by J. H. Baker, vignette title page, and 12 plates after S. L. Fildes. Contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine ends gently bumped, extremities lightly rubbed, touch of wear to one tip, foxing to endpapers and occasionally to contents, else clean. A very good, attractive copy, cloth and gilt notably bright.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Charles Dickens. Dickens Works 14 volumes with 22 books 3/4 leather fine binding 1870's. Chapman and Hall, 1870.

Price: US$1399.00 + shipping

Description: Fine set of Charles Dickens works published by Chapman and Hall in the 1870's (estimate undated). 14 volumes containing 22 books. Fine binding, and all volumes illustrated:Our Mutual Friends - Mahoney illustratedSketches by Boz/Tale of Two Cities/Uncommercial Traveller - Barnard illustrationsOld Curiosity Shop/Barnaby House - Green illustrationsNicholas Nickleby - Barnard illustrationsDavid Copperfield - Barnard illustrationsLittle Dorrit - Mahoney illustrationsMartin Chuzzlewit - Barnard illustrationsBleak House - Barnard illustrationsGreat Expectations/Hard Times - Fraser illustrationsPickwick Papers - Phiz illustrationsDombey and Son - Barnard illustrationsOliver Twist/Pictures from Italy/Child's History of England - Mahoney illustrationsChristmas Stories/Edwin Drood - Dalziel illustrationsDickens Life by John Forster pages clean with just some light 3/4 tan leather with gold emboss

Seller: HGG Books, Slingerlands, NY, U.S.A.

Dickens Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. London Chapman and Hall 1870, 1870.

Price: US$1485.00 + shipping

Description: 6 volumes. First Edition in the six original monthly parts. Earliest issue of Part 6 with the "Price Eighteenpence" slip pasted over the one shilling price on the front wrapper, with the "Edwin Drood Advertiser" in each part. With the engraved portrait frontispiece and engraved title-page issued when Part No. 6 was issued, and 12 additional wood-engraved plates after S. L. Fildes. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, housed in a black cloth foldover case, with lettering label mimicking the design of the title on the wrappers. A very well preserved and handsome set with some minor chipping at the spine panels. FIRST EDITION OF THIS, DICKENS' LAST NOVEL, IN THE ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS. A very nice set agreeing with the collation given in Hatton and Cleaver with very few exceptions, the "cork" ad not present. Dickens' last and unfinished work. Inspired by and intended to rival Wilkie Collins' THE MOONSTONE, the mystery's elusive solution has been attempted by numerous authors since.

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.

Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.

Price: US$1527.70 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The final uncompleted work of Charles Dickens, here in the original six serialised parts. Complete in the six original parts.The first issue of Part VI, with the 'eighteenpence' slip pasted over the original on shilling price to the head of the front wrap.Complete with all twelve plates called for, a well as a portrait frontispiece and engraved title page to Part VI.Part I is complete with all ads.Part II is lacking the 'Cork Hats' advert.Part III is complete with all ads.Part IV is complete with all ads, and a duplicate of the final 'Chapman & Co Entire Wheat Flour' advert.Part V lacks pages 1-2, and 7-8 of 'Chapman & Hall's Recent Publications'.Part VI lacks the 'Wilcox & Gibbs "A New World at Home"' advert.In a custom cloth box, in a very good indeed condition.'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' was Dickens' final work, left unfinished upon his death in June 1870 - of the twelve instalments planned only these six had been written. As Dickens hadn't left a clear or detailed plan as to the continuation or resolution of the plot, the 'Mystery' was left unsolved.Charles Dickens is possibly the most well-known Victorian author, with his fifteen novels still being widely read and performed, as well as being studied in school and enjoyed by people of all ages. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, generally smart. A little loss of paper to the backstrips, particularly to Parts I, II, III, IV, and VI. Prior owner's pencil note to the head of each wrap. Front wrap of Part II is detached but present, rear wrap of Part VI is detached but present. Light discolouration to the wraps, particularly to Part I. Front wrap of Part I is edge worn with some chips and loss, lifting a little to the head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some scattered spots. Part V's 'Chapman & Hall's Recent Publications' advert is loose. Light marks to the custom cloth box. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Charles Dickens. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chapman & Hall, London, 1870.

Price: US$1690.22 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The original six parts of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood', the final unfinished work of Charles Dickens here in the original serialised parts. Complete in the six original parts - no more parts were published as Dickens died whilst writing.First issue, with the "eighteenpence" slip over the one shilling price to the front wrap of Part VI.Complete with all twelve plates called for, a well as a portrait frontispiece and engraved title page to Part VI.Collated; Part I lacks page 26/27 of the front advertisements and the four pages of adverts for 'Henry Brett' to the rear; Part III lacks all adverts to the rear besides the Chapman, Petter, and Galpin 'Publications' adverts; Part V lacking the eight pages of Chapman & Halls 'Recent Publication' adverts to the rear; and Part VI bound without the Wilcox and Gibbs advert 'Concerning Stitches' to the rear.The very scarce fragile advert for 'Cork Hats' to the rear of Part II is present but detached.In a custom cloth box, in a very good indeed condition.'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' was Dickens' final work, left unfinished upon his death in June 1870 - of the twelve instalments planned only these six had been written. As Dickens hadn't left a clear or detailed plan as to the continuation or resolution of the plot, the 'Mystery' was left unsolved.Charles Dickens is possibly the most well-known Victorian author, with his fifteen novels still being widely read and performed, as well as being studied in school and enjoyed by people of all ages. In the original publisher's paper wraps, in a custom cloth box. Externally, generally smart. A little edge wear to the wraps resulting in some chips as is usual, heavier to the backstrips. Some discolouration to the wraps and a few light handling marks. Front wrap of Part VI is detached but present. Prior owner's pencil note to the head of the front wrap of Part II, IV, V, and VI. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots, including to the plates. Portrait frontispiece to Part VI is detached but present. Cloth box with a few light parts, in a very good indeed condition. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

DICKENS, Charles. MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. , 1870.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Description: DICKENS, Charles. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. With Twelve Illustrations by S. L. Fildes, and a Portrait. London: Chapman & Hall, [April - September] 1870. First edition. A total of 14 illustrations, including a portrait of Dickens and a vignette title-page. Octavo. [viii,1]-190,[2] pp. In the original six monthly parts, as issued, in blue paper wrappers. Housed in a green three-quarter leather pull-off case in a green cloth chemise. Wrappers show some general light wear but,some minor expert repair and are very good overall. The front wrap on Part 1 has a small ink spot near one edge and shows a bit more wear than the other wrappers. Almost all advertisements are present, including the rare cork ad in Part 2, lacking only four pages (nos. 7 - 10) of the "Edwin Drood Advertiser" in Part 3 and the eight-page Chapman & Hall catalog in Part 5. Another minor difference, the eight-page Chapman & Hall catalog in Part 1 is not completely unpaginated; pages 2 and 3 are marked as such. Part 6 has the "Eighteenpence" slip pasted over the original price on front wrap as found in the earliest issues. Some plates show mild light foxing. Text leaves are clean. This was Dickens' last work; it was left unfinished at his death in June, 1870. (Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 371-384).

Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

DICKENS, Charles. Mystery of Edwin Drood, The [and] John Jasper's Secret. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870, 1870.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition of Edwin Drood and The First 'Conclusion' - John Jasper's Secret Uniformly Bound by Zaehnsdorf DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. With Twelve Illustrations by S.L. Fildes, and a Portrait. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition in book form of Dickens's final work, left unfinished at the time of his death. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 208 x 133 mm.). vii, [1, "Illustrations"], 190 pp. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens ("Engraved by J.H. Baker, from a Photograph taken in 1868, by Mason & Co."), wood-engraved vignette title by J. Brown, and twelve wood-engraved plates, two by the firm of Dalziel Brothers, ten by Charles Roberts, all after Samuel Luke Fildes. Occasional marginal staining, wood-engraved plate facing p. 98 with small (1/4 inch) marginal tear. A very good copy. Together with: [EDWIN DROOD], MORFORD, Henry, attributed to]. John Jasper's Secret: Being a Narrative of Certain Events Following and Explaining "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." With Twenty Illustrations. London: Publishing Offices, 1872. First English edition in book form. Octavo (7 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 201 x 133 mm.). [iv], 252 pp. Twenty wood-engraved plates. Uniformly bound ca. 1920 by Zaehnsdorf for the Gardenside Bookshop, Boston (stamp-signed in black on verso of front free- endpapers). Full polished tan calf, covers decoratively bordered in gilt. Gilt corner pieces with small floral onlays in black morocco, decorative center pieces stamped in blind. Spines with five raised band decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments with small brown morocco floral onlays. Edwin Drood with two brown morocco labels lettered in gilt, John Jasper's Secret with one brown morocco label lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled board edges, decorative turn-ins, marbled end-papers, top edge gilt. Joints a little rubbed but quite sound. A very attractive example housed together in a felt-lined fitted marbled board slipcase. "When Dickens died on June 9, 1870, he had completed only enough of his manuscript to make up six instalments, leaving unfinished a work which had commanded the widest attention for its opening numbers, and which promised to be one of his most effective and popular books. Although only three parts had been issued prior to his death, publication of the work continued, and on completion with Part 6 of all available material, the vast army of readers was left high and dry as to ‘The Mystery.' The Author during the writing of the story never disclosed the ultimate development of his plot" (Hatton and Cleaver). John Jasper's Secret was the first of many attempts to solve The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The work was written by the New York journalist Henry Morford (1823-1881) and his wife. Smith, 16; Gimbel H330; Sadleir 705a; Not in Sadleir.

Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.

DICKENS, Charles.. The Mystery of Edwin Drood.. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870, 1870.

Price: US$1950.25 + shipping

Description: First edition in book form, an example of both the primary and secondary cloth bindings of the first edition, housed together. John Carter identified the two bindings in his 1932 classic Binding Variants (pp. 108-9), alongside a tertiary binding without gilt embellishment. Carter uses the entry to note the importance of studying variations in cloth for Dickens's novels, which were at the time mostly ignored in the bibliography of the author; Eckel, Carter notes, left them "severely alone". Subsequent bibliographic study of the cloth variants by Walter Smith and Lars Kremers has confirmed Carter's conclusions. Dickens's novels were printed in large batches and bound and issued over time as demand required. As often, the trend in binding style as the original publication date receded was towards simplicity and lower cost. The changes here between the two copies are indicative of this, the secondary copy having the removal of a roll, stamping in blind rather than in black, and plain rather than coloured endpapers. Copy A has a publisher's catalogue at the rear dated August 1870 (the month of publication), copy B a catalogue dated June 1872. The Mystery of Edwin Drood was projected to be published in twelve monthly parts, but Dickens had only completed six parts when he died of a stroke. The finished parts of the novel were gathered and published in the present book form the month following his death, but Dickens had left no notes or instructions for how the novel was to be completed, and as a result "soon a whole Drood 'industry' (which still flourishes today) grew up, concerned with providing a plausible solution to the mystery" (ODNB). John Carter, Binding Variants, 1932; Kremers pp. 242-3; Smith 16. 2 copies, octavo. Copy A: Original green bead-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt and decoratively stamped in black, sawtooth and double-line border to front board in black enclosing elaborate black dot-and-line work and gilt lettering, four-line border enclosing central shield device to rear board in black, yellow coated endpapers. Copy B: binding similar to above, with the sawtooth roll removed, the rear cover centrepiece replaced with a floral device blocked in blind, plain endpapers. Both housed together in a custom cloth solander box, spine lettered "Edwin Drood / Dickens / Original Cloth / 1st & 2nd issue". Portrait frontispiece by J. H. Baker, vignette title page, and 12 plates after S. L. Fildes. Copy A with contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper alongside blindstamp of W. H. Smith booksellers; copy B with 20th-century book label to front pastedown of Richard Jerman of Exeter and blindstamp of S. Drayton & Sons, Exeter to front free endpaper; recent bookplate of collector Peter Russell mounted to inside cover of box. Both lightly rubbed, copy A otherwise fine, copy B with neat repair to joint ends and inner hinges, very good.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

DICKENS, CHARLES. Works. Chapman and Hall, [1870s], 1870.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: A very handsome set of the famous "Illustrated Library Edition," here in an early printing. The dedication at the front of the first volume (Pickwick Papers) states, "This the best edition of my books is, of right, inscribed to my dear friend John Forster, biographer of Oliver Goldsmith, in affectionate acknowledgment of his counsel, sympathy, and faithful friendship during my whole literary life." "The Library Edition came about largely because of the suggestion of Forster that while Dickens's works were available in volumes in the Cheap Edition and in reprints of the serial parts, there was no high-quality edition that would appeal to the wealthy. Dickens eventually came round to the idea that an elegant edition could raise the stature of his writings. He faced a complication, in that the rights to the works were divided between Chapman and Hall and Bradbury and Evans. Consequently, the volumes contained the imprints of both publishers. With a dedication to Forster, the Library Edition appeared in 22 volumes in 1858-9 at 7s 6d per volume. "Titles included Pickwick, Nickleby, Chuzzlewit, Old Curiosity Shop, Reprinted Pieces, Barnaby Rudge, Hard Times, Sketches by Boz, Oliver Twist, Dombey, Copperfield, Pictures from Italy, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, and Christmas Books. The only illustrations were the frontispieces. Between 1861 and 1874 this edition was reissued in 30 volumes with the addition of Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, The Uncommercial Traveller, A Child's History of England, Christmas Stories, and Drood. The reissue contained illustrations the frontispieces plus additional illustrations by artists such as Marcus Stone, John Leech, and Clarkson Stanfield and came to be known as the Illustrated Library Edition. Recognizing the continuing potential for sales of Dickens's works, Chapman and Hall in 1873 published a prospectus for the Second Illustrated Library Edition, containing, they contended, all the works the novelist wished to preserve. Calling it the first well-printed issue, with specially cast type and better paper than that used in previous editions, this set was published in 30 volumes between 1873 and 1876 and sold at £15 for the set, a high price for the time" (Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens, pp. 205-206).

Seller: 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop, Stevenson, MD, U.S.A.

Charles Dickens. Works of Charles Dickens. Chapman & Hall, 1870.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: THIS COMPLETE THIRTY VOLUME SET IS IN NEAR FINE CONDITION BEAUTIFULLY BOUND BY BLUNSON & CO IN 3/4 CRUSHED MOROCCO WITH BRIGHT GILT RULE TO BOARDS, SIX COMPARTMENTS AND FIVE RAISED BANDS TO SPINE WITH BRIGHT GILT DETAILS AND TITLE. BINDING AND HINGES ARE VERY GOOD, MARBLED END PAPERS AND PASTE DOWNS WITH CLEAN END PAGES. NO LOOSE OR MISSING PAGES, PAGES ARE BRIGHT AND CLEAN, WITHOUT MARKS AND MINIMAL FOXING TO END PAGES. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED, BOOKS MEASURE 9"x6.75". ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY EDITION, NO PUBLICATION DATE STATED - CIRCA 1870's. AN ATTRACTIVE SET IN GREAT CONDITION.

Seller: Reagan's Rare Books, Moseley, VA, U.S.A.

(BINDINGS - CHIVERS). (EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BOOKS). DICKENS, CHARLES. THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. Chapman and Hall, London, 1870.

Price: US$6760.00 + shipping

Description: 215 x 140 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2). vii, [1] (blank), 190 pp. Without the leaf of publisher's ads. VERY ATTRACTIVE SCARLET CRUSHED MOROCCO BY CEDRIC CHIVERS (stamp-signed on rear turn-in) ca. 1911, covers framed by one blind and two gilt fillets, upper cover with INLAID PAINTED VELLUCENT ESCUTCHEON with the arms of the city of Rochester within a "tiled" gilt frame, the inlay enclosed by Art Nouveau floral design incorporating a heart motif, an onlaid citron morocco heart at the foot of the design, three raised bands dividing the spine into two small compartments, slightly larger compartment with gilt titling, and an elongated compartment with inlaid vellucent and gilt escutcheon displaying the arms of the county of Kent, within similar Art Nouveau tooling featuring an onlaid citron heart, turn-ins ruled in gilt, with dot cornerpieces, leather hinges, red watered silk endleaves, all edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait, engraved vignette title, and 12 plates (as called for) by S. L. Fildes, EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with reproductions of a black & white portrait of Fildes and an engraved portrait of John Forster (both taken from contemporary publications?), a reduced reproduction of the original green paper wrapper cover (all three of these mounted in heavy stock frames), additional calligraphed title page noting extra-illustrations, 16 ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS, FOUR OF THESE WATERCOLORS, 13 dry-point, all but one mounted in heavy stock frames (one drawn directly on heavy stock), all captioned, and all with tissue guards. Front flyleaf with embossed ex-libris of Dana C. Bradford. With "The Last Book," a seven-page excerpt from Forster's "Life of Dickens," mounted in frames at rear, following a handwritten section title page. ◆Slight rippling of some of the inserted leaves, text faintly yellowed because of paper stock (as no doubt in all copies), perhaps a whisper of wear to the binding, but still and easily a very fine copy. In terms of content, illustration, binding, and condition, this item is obviously of very considerable appeal. Dickens' final, unfinished novel, "Edwin Drood," is a murder mystery that remains unsolved to this day. Set in a lightly fictionalized version of Rochester, near which Dickens was living, the plot involves a marriage engagement between the two orphans Drood and Rosa Budd, made by their parents and distasteful to both of them. When Drood disappears, suspicion falls heavily on Neville, another orphaned young man, who is in love with Rosa. Neville has the reader's sympathy, and we can only hope that Drood's sinister and scheming uncle Jasper is the culprit. A distinguished artist who did many famous portraits in his later years, Samuel Luke Fildes (1844-1927) began as an illustrator known especially for powerful black and white images of social realism; his career was measurably advanced by his selection as the artist to execute the plates in "Edwin Drood." Cedric Chivers opened his Bath bindery in the 1880s, producing various kinds of fine decorative bindings, but specializing in a "vellucent" binding based on the 18th century painted vellum work of Edwards of Halifax. Here, he has used the vellucent technique to create the shields with the arms of Rochester and Kent inlaid on the cover and spine. The anonymous watercolors here are extremely attractive, being skillfully done in pleasing colors. They are mostly depictions of the novel's localities, generally in Rochester.

Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, U.S.A.