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London : Chapman and Hall . Very Good . 1861 . 1st Edition . Hard Back . .

Bookseller: St Marys Books And Prints, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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Chapman and Hall, 1861 First edition, first issue, rebound in quarter leather and marbled paper. One of only 1,000 copies of the true first edition. Very good condition. Housed in a custommade collector's clamshell case with leather spine and gold tooling and lettering.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Bookseller: Bookbid Rare Books, California, United States
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First Edition, fifth issue. Three volumes, including the publisher's catalog dated August 1861 at the rear of Volume III. Bound in the publisher's original ribbed purple cloth binding, with ruling and decorations in blind to boards, lettering and decorations in gilt to spine. This copy has the majority of the first issue points, with only a few of the corrections that were made after the first issue. Overall, a clean and attractive set, extremely rare in the unsophisticated publisher's cloth. The first issue of the first edition book, published on July 6, 1861, was followed by four subsequent issues of the same edition, published on August 5, August 17, September 21, and October 30 of the same year. Smith notes that "These first five issues were probably printed at a single impression and published with altered title pages to imply and encourage a rapid sale In all five issues, the same misprints persist." The first issue, which included a print run of 1,000 copies was "almost entirely taken up by the librari ... Read more

Bookseller: Bookbid Rare Books, California, United States
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Chapman and Hall, London, 1861 First Edition, First Printing, fifth issue. Three volumes, including the publisher's catalog dated August 1861 at the rear of Volume III. Bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's ribbed purple cloth binding, with ruling and decorations in blind to boards, lettering and decorations in gilt to spine. Each volume with bright boards, toning to the spines, wear to the extremities, some light rubbing across. Volume I, with spine cracked at front hinge, former owner's signature to the dedication page. Volumes II and III each starting at front hinges, former owner's signature to the title pages. Each volume with otherwise intact spines and extremely bright and clean interiors. This copy has the majority of the first issue points, with only a few of the corrections that were made after the first issue. Overall, a clean and attractive set, extremely rare in the unsophisticated publisher's cloth. Smith I, 14. Great Expectations was originally published serially in All the Year ... Read more

Bookseller: Quintessential Rare Books, LLC, California, United States
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1906-1908. Octavo, 40 volumes. Full red morocco bound by Bayntun, with gilt titles and elaborate tooling, blue inlay to the inner and rear panels. This example is finely bound and is extra-illustrated with two autograph letters signed by Charles Dickens. The first letter is to Sir John Bowring. An interesting letter regretting that Dickens did not attend Bowring's lecture and mentioning his "Falstaff house" and "All the Year Round" and joking with him about taking poison from the Natives. Bowring was a travel writer and the fourth Governor of Hong Kong. Published in Letters of Charles Dickens: 1836-1870, p 180. The second letter is from London, June 13, 1848, to Edward Davis. In which Dickens apologizes for not answering his letter earlier but explains that he has no connection to the Punch office and that his amateur company will not be able to visit Newcastle. Numerous plates throughout including mounted illustrations after George Cruikshank, Hablot K. Browne. An exceptional com ... Read more

Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books, Florida, United States
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1906-08. The complete works of Charles Dickens, The National edition, which is considered the best edition of works, his works with the definitive text, one of 750 sets. Octavo, 80 volumes. Finely bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt turn-ins, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with reproductions of original title-pages, frontispieces, engraved and woodcut plates, as well as other illustrations and various facsimiles on India paper with captioned tissue-guards. Third-person letter written on behalf of Charles Dickens mounted to a binder's blank in the front of Volume I, "Mr. Charles Dickens begs to inform Messrs. Moore and Co. in answer to their [--] relative to the address of this letter Mr. G. M. Dickens, that he has no [--] to whom those initials [superscript: "as [--]"] belong, Broadstairs, Kent. First October 1841." In near fine condition. An exceptional set. Dickens is generally considered the greatest writer of the Victori ... Read more

Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books, Florida, United States
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Chapman & Hall, London. Illustrated Library Edition. Hardcover. Very good/No Dj cover. VGC.Chapman & Hall, London ,1860's-1870's.Illustrated Library Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens in complete 26 octavo volumes(I to XXVI).This set was reissued between 1861 and 1874 with illustrations and was called the Illustrated Library Edition.Hardbacks(marbled front and back covers, gilt lettering to the spine) bound in mainly contemporary half leather(four volumes are in more recent half leather, small nicks and dents on the edges of the covers and spines) in VGC. Illustrated with many b/w plates.Nice and clean pages with small ink marks,creases and nicks on the edges of the pages,small foxing marks inside some of the pages, pages 49-50 in volume I are slightly loose, previous owner's name written on a sticker inside the front cover of each book except for 4 volumes, marbled endpapers and edges of the pages. The front cover of volume XII has come loose but is repairable. Illustrations by George Cruiksha ... Read more

Bookseller: Alpha 2 Omega Books, Hampshire, United Kingdom
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1861. First Edition, Second Impression. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, second impression. (Stated "Second Edition" on all title pages. 344; 351; 344pp. Complete in three volumes. Contemporary leather with gilt ruling and lettering on spine. Bound without ads, quite likely as issued. Bibliographer Walter E. Smith describes printings two through five as indistinguishable except for their title pages, which may have been printed at the same time to give the impression of brisk sales. All had the same textual errors, etc.) Bindings edge-worn, leather starting to split along spine edges, hinges a bit tender, gilt barely legible. Internally Very Good with some light corner creasing, stray light stains and foxing. A very nice set of the classic novel.

Bookseller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Oregon, United States
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New York: The Athenaeum Society,, [early 1900s]. 30 volumes, octavo. Bound by the Harcourt Bindery in brown half levant morocco, spines gilt in compartments with red flower onlays, raised bands, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt. Illustrations throughout. Bindings very lightly rubbed, contents faintly toned. An excellent set. A beautifully bound set of the collected works of Dickens, with illustrations throughout.

Bookseller: Peter Harrington, United Kingdom
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London: Chapman & Hall, 1899. The Gadshill edition with Forster's Life of Charles Dickens in matching bindings, together 36 volumes. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Zaehnsdorf for Charles Scribner's Sons, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, green morocco spine labels, top edge gilt. In near fine condition. An exceptional set. Dickens is generally considered the greatest writer of the Victorian period. His works are characterized by attacks on social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy. "His imaginative freshness, his deep and sincere tenderness and pity, his whole-souled humor that is seldom sharpened into wit, his superabundance of creative energy, have built a deathless niche in the temple of fame for Charles Dickens" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 184).

Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books, Florida, United States
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. . Three volumes, volumes I and III third issue, volume II fourth issue, 8vo., pp.(iii),344;(i),351;(i),344, half black textured calf with ruled compartments, gilt, marbled boards, speckled edges; bound without the adverts to volume III, small printed ownership label to front paste-down endpaper of all volumes, light finger-marking, foxing to endpapers and prelims, with occasional slight foxing within, light rubbing to boards, a very good, fresh set in a near contemporary binding. “The first five issues were probably printed at a single impression and published with altered title-pages to imply and encourage a rapid sale” - Walter E. Smith. John C. Eckel gives four examples of misprints in the first edition, corrected in subsequent editions, all of which are present in uncorrected form here: vol.II, p.162, line 21, “their” for “her”; Vol.III., p.37, line 25, “raving” for “starving”; p.145, line 1, “but” for “was”; p.150, line 4, “led” for “ ... Read more

Bookseller: MINSTER GATE BOOKSHOP, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company,, 1891. 48 volumes, octavo (180 x 120 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, marbled sides and endpapers, top edges gilt. Frontispiece with tissue guard to each volume and illustrations throughout by amongst others Robert Seymour, George Cruikshank, H. K. Browne, George Cattermole and John Leech. Spines evenly faded to tan, intermittent dampstaining to margins of a couple of volumes. An excellent set. An extremely attractive library set of the works of Charles Dickens.

Bookseller: Peter Harrington, United Kingdom
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Philadelphia (1861): T. B. Peterson and Brothers. Hard Cover. Peterson's Uniform Duodecimo Edition, 523 pages, illustrated, with 34 illustrations by John McLenan; complete in one volume. Original brown cloth binding, stamped in gilt and blind. Light general foxing; cloth worn through at corners, small loss at spine ends; yellow coated endpapers. One of the earliest American editions.

Bookseller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc., Arizona, United States
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Chapman & Hall, London, 1861 First Edition of Volume IV of "Great Expectations" First Published in the "All the Year Round" weekly journal in two volumes. This set consists of the first volume IV but is missing volume V that completes the novel. Volume IV consists of Chapters 1-28. Volume V has Chapters 29-59, novel concludes on page 437 in Volume V. The book has been rebound in nice leather. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp. A lovely copy of this First appearance of Great Expectations in book form, before the publishing of the novel on its own. We buy Dickens First Editions.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine.

Bookseller: Quintessential Rare Books, LLC, California, United States
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1859. A Weekly Journal. With which is incorporated Household Words. [In Eleven Volumes.] London: [Office of "All The Year Round"], 1859-1864. Original blind-stamped olive green or olive brown cloth. First Appearance in Print of these two major novels. This is a set of the first eleven volumes (comprised of the weekly numbers from April 1859 to August 1864) of this periodical founded and edited by Charles Dickens. (There would be a total of twenty volumes, ending in late 1868, twenty months before Dickens's death.) All The Year Round was issued each week, without separate wrappers or ads; at the end of each 26-week period, the complete issues were available for purchase bound in this cloth, priced at 5s.6d. Dickens had earlier been the editor and majority owner of the periodical Household Words since 1850. In 1859 he became embroiled in a bitter dispute with Bradbury & Evans, its printer and minority owner (regarding Dickens's own infidelity with his wife). Unable to have his way ... Read more

Bookseller: Sumner & Stillman, Maine, United States
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1874-76. The Illustrated Library Edition. 30 volumes; 8vo. Contemporary binding of half dark green morocco with gilt raised bands, gilt titles, and extra gilt decoration to spines, green cloth boards; marbled end papers and edges. With illustrations from the original works by Phiz, Browne, Cruikshank, etc. Bookplate and Dickens anniversary stamp pasted down to first free end paper of all volumes. A remarkable set in an unusually bright, tight and highly decorative contemporary binding, just a touch rubbed to extremities. Podeschi [Gimbel] D72.

Bookseller: Adrian Harrington Rare Books, Kent, United Kingdom
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London: Chapman and Hall, [n.d., c.1890].. Illustrated Library edition, 30 volumes, 8vo. Engraved plates throughout, marbled endpapers, sides and edges. Attractively bound in contemporary half calf, gilt blocked spines with raised bands and red and green labels, the latter mostly with some fading, one volume (Barnaby Rudge) recased, slight wear to a few tops of spines, otherwise a very handsome set.

Bookseller: Bow Windows Bookshop, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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1861. Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition. [In Two Volumes.] Illustrated from Drawings by F.O.C. Darley and John Gilbert. New York: James G. Gregory, 1861. Original dark green cloth. Very early American Edition -- the first to deposit copies at the Library of Congress -- of one of Dickens's most-loved novels (being volumes of the "Household Edition"). There has been much controversy over which is the first American edition -- this edition by Gregory, or Peterson's edition. This Gregory edition was long regarded as the first American edition, but Walter Smith's 2012 bibliography of Dickens's American editions gives the nod to Peterson's, with considerable information on this controversy. In the meantime here is the brief known history... On November 15, 1860, Harper entered a copyright for the book, and then serialized the tale in Harper's Weekly beginning on November 24 and ending on August 3, 1861 (however, there is no book edition published by Harper in 1861, a ... Read more

Bookseller: Sumner & Stillman, Maine, United States
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