Lot 1302 , Dickens, Charles - Our Mutual Friend. (new edition), 2 vols. (bound together). pictorial general title, frontispieces and 38 plates; contemp. half calf and marbled boards, gilt decorated panelled spine with red and brown

° Dickens, Charles - Our Mutual Friend. (new edition), 2 vols. (bound together). pictorial general title, frontispieces and 38 plates; contemp. half calf and marbled boards, gilt decorated panelled spine with red and brown labels, marbled edge and e/ps. Chapman and Hall, (ca.1875); Dickens, Charles - The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. (new edition) pictorial engraved and printed titles, frontis and 38 plates: later 19th century gilt ruled half calf and marbled boards, gilt decorated and panelled spine with red and black labels. Chapman and Hall, 1863; Dickens, Charles - Sketches by Boz. new edition complete (in one vol.), pictorial engraved and printed titles, 39 plates (by George Cruikshank); contemp. blind ruled and decorated black morocco, gilt decorated panelled spine, ge. and marbled e/ps. Chapman and Hall, 1867; Master Humphrey's Clock. First Edition, 3 vols (bound as 2). titles and frontispieces for vols 1 and 2; not title, frontis. or prelims. for vol. 3, num. text illus. throughout; near contemp. gilt decorated straight grain tan morocco, panelled spine with maroon labels, marbled edges and e/ps. (first vol. distressed). Chapman and Hall, 1840-41 (5)
£100-140

Condition:
Mutual Friend - frontis. vol. 2 misplaced at p.54, binding good, vol.1 lacks half title, some prelims misbinding, vol.2 no title, some other prelims. before vol.1 text; advert leaf end vol.2 mostly clean - little marginal browning; illus. by Marcus Stone; Chuzzlewit - binding good, plts. mostly clean (some offsetting to text), lacks half title, errata leaf present; illus. by H.K. Browne; Boz - some leather wear spine and corners, hinges cracked (with spine and boards loose). viii, 526pp. Master Humphrey - vol.1 lacks dedication leaf; vol.2 title, frontis. and preface placed at front of 2nd vol. (i.e. between pp.228 and a229 of vol. 2); Bindings, vol.1 - upper board present, but detached, likewise spine and lower board; vol. 2 - spine and upper board loose with inner hinge cracked, light wear head spine. clean set. iv, 306; vi, 306 and (?), 426pp. see Smith (Pt.1) 6