Lot 183
Dickens, Charles
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
Description
Works. London: Chapman and Hall, [n.d.] 12 vols., 8vo, red half calf gilt, with plates, some plates lacking, 'Nicholas Nickleby' lacking pp.1-2 and 'A Tale of Two Cities' with printing error on p.49, some fading to spines; Scott, Sir Walter Waverley Novels. Edinburgh, 1857. 8vo, 25 volumes, contemporary tree calf gilt, marble endpapers, some wear to spines and joints of a few volumes slightly cracked, very minor foxing; [Idem] Waverley Novels, 1871. 8vo, 25 volumes;[Idem] Scott's Poetical Works, 1872. 8vo, 2 volumes;[Idem] Tales of a Grandfather, 1872. 8vo, 2 volumes; Uniform contemporary blue half calf gilt, slight fading to spines and very slight soiling to some covers; Thackery, William Makepeace The Works. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1869. 24 vols., 8vo, contemporary half calf gilt, marble endpapers,t.e.g., some cracking to joints, wear to a few spines, minor spotting; Lytton, Lord Edward Bulwer Works. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1873-1875. 34 volumes, 8vo, contemporary maroon half calf gilt, some very minor bumping to spines, two instances of minor offsetting between flyleaves and title pages and pp.149-156 of 'Last of the Barons' loose but present, interiors clean (Quantity)