Dickens (Charles)

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, First Edition, bound from the parts, half-title, etched title page (“Veller”), frontispiece (with four stripes on chair) and 43 plates (including the two suppressed plates and their replacements in part 3), part 1 text with signature E to p.25 and page number to 26 (later issue), remaining text mixed issue, pp. 341 & 342 are variant A; most plates in Hatton & Cleaver’s first state, except for those in parts: 1 (second Seymour plates), 4, 6, 10, 14, 15; lacking advertisements and wrappers except for the front wrapper panel and advertisements of part 17 (bound at rear), along with rear wrapper panel of part 18, [Hatton & Cleaver pp. 1-88], full gilt-tooled morocco by Riviere, 1836-37;

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, first edition in book form, engraved portrait frontispiece and 39 etched plates, without publisher's imprint to plates, with later issue ‘sister’ to p. 123, spotting and browning, later full calf by Root, gilt-ruled, spine gilt-tooled with morocco labels, 1839;

Bleak House, first edition in book form, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates by H.K. Browne, spotting and staining to most plates, lacking half title, the 3 first edition issue points present, ink signature to front free endpaper, later calf gilt, worn to extremities, 1853;

8vo (3)