Dickensiana.-

A large collection of 94 books by and about Charles Dickens, to include: Three First Editions, each bound from the parts, in contemporary bindings, worn: Dombey & Son, lacking half-title, 40 plates including the frontispiece and vignette title, staining and spotting to the majority, contemporary ownership inscription to the second free endpaper, internal cracking, 1848; David Copperfield, lacking half title, significant staining and loose pages, 1850; Little Dorrit, including the white slip, significant staining and loose pages, 1857; All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal, 3 vol., Nos. 1-76, including the first appearance of A Tale of Two Cities, 1859-60; The Christmas Numbers of All the Year Round, publisher’s cloth gilt, 1859-67; The Works…, 9 vol., Household Edition, lacking two titles, spotting, contemporary half calf gilt, Chapman and Hall, 1871-1880; The Letters of Charles Dickens, 12 vol., The Pilgrim Edition, edited by Madeline House et al., thick 8vo, Oxford University Press, 1965-2002; with others similar including Household Words, Bow Bells, Folio Society, modern biographies, v.s. (94)