Charles Dickens

The Workman Collection

Collection of eight early works by Dickens.

• Sold as a set of 8.
• Charles Dickens (English).
• Group lots are not subject to return.

Library of Fiction, or Family Story-Teller; Consisting of Original Tales, Essays and Sketches of Character.

2 volumes.

Illustrations after Phiz [Hablot K. Browne] (English) and others.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1836–1837.

Octavo.

28 wood-engraved plates.

First edition in book form.

Bound in early brown calf with gilt-lettered morocco labels and pale yellow endpapers with top edge gilt.

Housed in a custom slipcase.

The Pic-Nic Papers.

3 volumes.

London: Henry Colburn, 1841.

Octavo.

First edition, first issue.

Frontispiece and 11 illustrated plates.

Bound in original green rubbed cloth tooled in blind with acanthus design, gilt-lettered spines and pale yellow endpapers.

American Notes for General Circulation.

2 volumes.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1842.

Volume 1 misnumbered xvi and 6 pages of ads at the end.

Octavo.

First edition, first state.

Bound in original plum-brown ribbed cloth with floral decoration, gilt-lettered spines and pale yellow endpapers.

Housed in custom clamshell case.

American Notes for General Circulation.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842.

Octavo.

Bound in original brown wrappers with publisher's advertisements on lower wrapper.

Pictures from Italy.

Illustrated by Samuel Palmer (English).

London: Bradbury and Evans for the Author, 1846.

Octavo.

First edition.

Includes "Traveling Letters." France and Italy: [n.p], 21 January–11 March, 1846.

Bound in original green cloth stamped in blind with pale yellow endpapers.

Housed in green morocco chemise.

Household Narrative of Common Events 1850-1851.

2 volumes.

London: being A Monthly Supplement to Household Words, 1850–1851; 1852-1853.

Unbound as issued aside from 1863-1867 in original blue pamphlet wrappers.

Housed in a custom slipcase.

Extra Christmas Numbers of Household Worlds and All the Year Round.

17 parts.

London: 1851–1867.

Octavo.

Bound in original buff (Household Words) and blue (All the Year Round) wrappers.

Housed in a custom clamshell case.

The Uncommercial Traveller.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1861 [1860].

32 pages of advertisements at the end dated December 1860.

Octavo.

First book edition.

Bound in original violet cloth stamped in blind with gilt titles to spine.

Housed in a custom slipcase.