Charles Dickens | A collection of nine books in 11 volumes, 1841-1890

Charles Dickens

A collection of nine books in 11 volumes

i) Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s Progress...The Third Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1841. 3 volumes, etched frontispiece and plates by George Cruikshank, original publisher’s green cloth, upper and lower covers with motif in blind, lettered in gilt on spine, light yellow endpapers, lacking introduction;

ii) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, 1848; 

iii) American Notes for General Circulation. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850. Cheap edition;

iv) Barnaby Rudge. London: Chapman and Hall, 1857;

v) Sketches by Boz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Cheap edition;

vi) The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1860;

vii) The Uncommercial Traveller. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. Second edition, purple cloth;

viii) The Uncommercial Traveller. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. Third edition, green cloth;

ix) Dickens, Charles and Collins, Wilkie. The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices. No Thoroughfare. The perils of Certain English Prisoners. London: Chapman and Hall, 1890. First book edition;

all 8vo, cloth, spines gilt, browning and spotting, cloth rubbed and worn, hinges starting on a few volumes, some restoration

LITERATURE:

Oliver Twist: Smith, p. 37