First edition set of Dickens' Our Mutual Friend in the original 19 parts.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 19.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Marcus Stone (English).</li><li>London: Chapman and Hall, 1865.</li><li>First issue of text with "pricipal" for "principal" in part 14.</li><li>Bound in original pictorial blue paper wrappers.</li><li>Housed in a red cloth clamshell box with gilt lettered spine.</li></ul>

Our Mutual Friend 

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Fine%2520Bindings%2520and%2520Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> large paper edition of the works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Charles+Dickens&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 30 volumes.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrated by George Cruikshank.</li><li>Philadelphia &amp; London:&nbsp;J.B. Lippincott Company &amp; Chapman &amp; Hall, LD.&nbsp;1850.</li><li>Limited Edition, this being number 24 out of 100 sets.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in three-quarter olive green Morocco leather and marbled boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, raised bands on spine, gilt rose embellishments on spine.</li></ul>

Complete Works

An attractive set of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Great%20Expectations&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Great Expectations</a>, the most popular of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=charles%20dickens&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dickens</a>’ novels, in a contemporary binding.&nbsp;<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London: Chapman &amp; Hall, 1861.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavos.</li><li>Second, second, and third ‘editions’ [impressions].</li><li>Contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards, morocco labels. </li></ul>&nbsp;&nbsp;Although the title-pages states ‘Second and third editions’, in fact the first five editions are really only different impressions of the same edition. Apart from the title-pages the only differences are in the text where the type in the earliest impressions shows fewer signs of wear and damage. The title-pages were altered to encourage sales.&nbsp;

Great Expectations

A first edition copy of Dickens' Little Dorrit.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrated by H.K. Browne.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Bradbury &amp; Evans,&nbsp;1857.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes 40 etched plates.</li><li>Bound in original cloth, publisher's green cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt.</li></ul>

Little Dorrit

Montblanc Charles Dickens resin and sterling silver ballpoint pen.<ul><li>Model: Patron's Edition</li><li>Number: 10246/16000</li><li>Cap: Sterling silver and green resin</li><li>Barrel: Black and green resin and sterling silver</li><li>Nib/Tip: Sterling silver plated tip</li><li>Signed: Montblanc on cap, Charles Dickens on barrel</li><li>Does not include a presentation box.</li><li>This piece is final sale and not eligible for return.</li></ul>

Charles Dickens Ballpoint Pen

A first edition, second issue copy of The Pic-Nic Papers.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 3 volumes.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Henry Colburn,&nbsp;1841.</li><li>With illustrations by George Cruikshank, Phiz and others.</li><li>Volume I with frontispiece and another plate by Cruikshank, two plates by Phiz.</li><li>Volume II has a frontis and three plates by Phiz.</li><li>Volume III has a frontis and five plates by Robert J. Hamerton.</li><li>Bound in original olive-green cloth, uncut.</li></ul>

The Pic-Nic Papers

A finely bound <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Sets" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">set</a> of the works of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Sets&amp;query=Charles%20Dickens&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 36 volumes.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Introduction and notes by Andrew Lang.</li><li>New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902.</li><li>All illustrations after the originals.</li><li>Includes the 2 volumes of Forster's Life Of Dickens.</li><li>Bound in half green morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, top edges gilt, by Lauriat Of Boston.</li></ul>

The Complete Works Of Charles Dickens

A first edition, second state copy of A Christmas Carol.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English, 1812-1870).</li><li>London: Chapman &amp; Hall, 1843.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>166 pages.</li><li>Bound in publisher's original raw sienna cloth, stamped in blind and gilt with gilt title and wreath to spine and front cover, all edges gilt, pale yellow endpapers.</li></ul>

A Christmas Carol

First edition in book form of Dickens' Our Mutual Friend.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Chapman and Hall,&nbsp;1865.</li><li>320; 309, [1] pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes 40 engraved plates by the Dalziel Brothers or W. T. Green after illustrations by Marcus Stone.</li><li>Bound in contemporary half crimson morocco and marbled boards.</li></ul> Commencing with the supposed death of John Harmon, who's body is found in the Thames, Dickens' tale of hidden identities, greed and love is underpinned by the theme of wealth and its evils. Our Mutual Friend is considered one of Dicken's most sophisticated works, and first appeared in parts as it was written in 1864-65. Here we have it in book form published in the same year. Although Dickens lived until 1870, this is his last completed novel.

Our Mutual Friend

A reprint of the extremely rare privately printed edition of Mr. Nightingale's Diary: A Farce in One Act of 1851.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Boston:&nbsp;James R. Osgood &amp; Company,&nbsp;1877.</li><li>96 pages.</li><li>Bound in full olive-green morocco, gilt corner pieces of three-leaf clover, gilt spine, raised bands, gilt turn-ins with floral sprays, by WOSFORD.</li></ul>

Mr. Nightingale's Diary: A Farce in One Act

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of Our Mutual Friend by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Charles%20Dickens&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens</a>.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Marcus Stone.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Chapman and Hall,&nbsp;1865.</li><li>Bound in full red Morocco, all edges gilt, gilt borders on interior and exterior covers, ornate gilt panels on spine, raised bands.</li></ul>

Our Mutual Friend First Edition

A first edition, Deluxe Issue copy of A Christmas Carol.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.</li><li>London:&nbsp;William Heinemann,&nbsp;1915.</li><li>Quarto.</li><li>Includes 12 full-page mounted illustrations in color and 20 drawings in black and white by Arthur Rackham.</li><li>One of 525 copies signed by Rackham.&nbsp;</li><li>Bound in original full gilt-decorated vellum, housed in custom vellum backed box with chemise.</li></ul>

A first edition copy of Dickens' Little Dorrit.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrated by H.K. Browne.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Bradbury &amp; Evans,&nbsp;1857.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes 40 etched plates.</li><li>Bound in 19th-century tan polished calf, rebacked with gilt spine and contrasting red and green leather labels, new endpapers.</li></ul>

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, second issue of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Charles+Dickens&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens</a>' A Christmas Carol.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London: Chapman and Hall, 1843.</li><li>Illustrated with 4 hand colored engraved plates by John Leech and 4 black and white illustrations by W.J. Linton.</li><li>Chapter heading reading "Stave One."</li><li>Bound in the original straight grained rose colored cloth, gilt tile and wreath to spine and front cover, front cover has a perfect 'D' in 'Dickens', yellow pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt.</li></ul>

A Christmas Carol | First Edition

A handwritten <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Manuscripts%252C%2520Letters%252C%2520Documents%252C%2520Ephemera" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">letter</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Charles+Dickens&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens</a> to Thomas Mitton.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Elm Cottage, Petersham: [1838-1839].&nbsp;</li><li>Single leaf folded in half.</li><li>Two pages of writing.</li><li>Brown ink on paper.</li><li>Signed by Charles Dickens, addressed to his solicitor Thomas Mitton.</li><li>Displayed in a black w. 9 in. by h. 11 in. double sided frame.</li></ul> The transcribed text reads as follows:"Elm Cottage Monday MorningDear Tom,I enclose you a formal epistle about Hansard's matter. Also a letter from [Macpherson], to which please to call the attention of our arranger of debts. If it does not exceed 5 £ or 6 £, I should wish here it is paid in full, to me [illegible] most distinctly how much [illegible] cost that way.Always faithfully,Charles Dickens" Rear side:"You will of course use your own discretion about reading as much or as little of the Hansard letter as you please."

Signed Letter To Thomas Mitton

A collection of original watercolors depicting characters from the novels of Charles Dickens, by Joseph Clayton Clarke.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 12.</li><li>Each is signed "KYD" in the image.</li><li>Character illustrations include: Mr. Pecksniff (from Martin Chuzzlewit), Tim Linkinwater (from Nicholas Nickleby), Simon Tappertit (from Barnaby Rudge), Dennis (from Barnaby Rudge), Will Fern (from The Chimes), Silas Wegg (from Our Mutual Friend), John Browdie (from Nicholas Nickleby), Barbara (from The Old Curiosity Shop), Mr. George Sampson (from Our Mutual Friend), The Half-Pay Captain (from Sketches By Boz), The Pavement Artist (from Somebody's Luggage) and Mr. Snawley (from Nicholas Nickleby).</li></ul>

The Characters of Charles Dickens Watercolors Collection

Finely bound first edition, second state, copy of Dickens' The Chimes: A Goblin Story Of Some Bells That Rang An Old Year Out And A New Year In.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London: Chapman &amp; Hall, 1845.</li><li>Illustrated, second state of the additional engraved title page.</li><li>Bound in the publisher's original gilt and blind stamped red cloth, all edges gilt.</li></ul>

The Chimes (First Edition, Second State)

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?creators=Charles%2520Dickens" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens'</a> Hard Times. <ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Bradbury &amp; Evans,&nbsp;1854.</li><li>viii, [2], 352 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in modern mottled half brown morocco and marbled boards.</li></ul>

Hard Times

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Subject=Fine%2520bindings" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">finely bound</a> edition of The Memoirs Of Grimaldi.<ul><li>Joseph Grimaldi (English).</li><li>Edited by "Boz" [Charles Dickens].</li><li>Illustrated by George Cruikshank.</li><li>London:&nbsp;Richard Bentley,&nbsp;1846.</li><li>Portrait frontispiece with illustrations throughout by George Cruikshank.</li><li>Bound in full red morocco with colored inlay on front cover, gilt-tooling on the covers and raised band spine, top edges gilt, dentelles with watered silk endpapers.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Memoirs of Grimaldi

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first issue copy of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;creators=Charles%2520Dickens" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens'</a> Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2 volumes.</li><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Illustrated by George Cruikshank.</li><li>Edited by "Boz."</li><li>London: Richard Bentley, 1838.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes 12 illustrations.</li><li>Bound in publisher's floral-patterned, embossed, pink cloth, spines gilt.</li></ul> From the library of Eric Quayle. The first issue of Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Charles Dickens is identifiable via the appearance of the plate at page 238 in volume two in its first state, without the grotesque border, which was added later. Grimaldi was one of the most renowned English actors of the Regency period. In the early 1800s, he greatly expanded the role of the clown in the Harlequinade and made it his own to such an extent that a clown became known as a "Joey" and his white-face makeup became standard for all types of clown. Eric Stanley Quayle (1921–2001) was a noted British bibliophile (with a collection of 16,000 volumes), collector, historian and author. His own work was mainly related to the themes of collecting books, but he also produced a noted biography of R. M. Ballantyne (1967) and two books of folktales: one of Cornish tales (The Magic Ointment) and one of Japanese tales (The Shining Princess).

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, second issue of A Christmas Carol by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Charles+Dickens&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens</a>.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>A Christmas Carol In Prose Being A Ghost Story of Christmas.</li><li>London: Chapman and Hall, 1843.</li><li>Chapter heading reading "Stave One", illustrated with 4 hand colored engraved plates by John Leech and 4 black and white illustrations by W.J. Linton.</li><li>Bound in fine full red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers ruled and paneled in gilt, front cover with gilt portrait of Dickens, rear cover with Dickens signature in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt, original cloth covers and 1 yellow endpaper bound in, by Bayntun.</li></ul> Regarded as Dicken's most widely read novel and considered to be "the greatest Christmas book ever written in any language" selling more than 6000 copies in the few days leading up to Christmas. The work was extravagantly costly as Dickens for the first time (and incidentally his last) used color in the title-page and etchings as he wanted to make the book a beautiful gift and to be a celebration of the Christmas spirit. After the initial success, Dickens continued the series throughout the 1840's, maintaining "the Carol" philosophy to "strike a sledgehammer blow" for the poor, uneducated, and repressed.

A Christmas Carol First Edition

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first issue of Dombey and Son by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Charles+Dickens&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Charles Dickens</a>.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.</li><li>624 pages.</li><li>Three-quarters brown leather and marbled paper boards, marbled edges and endpapers, gilt stamped spine with five raised bands.</li></ul> Non-textual issue points: No page entry for frontis and vignett title page, hook in vignette is on the man’s left arm, both errata slips present, preface date March 24, 38 plates plus frontis and vignette, all by H.K, Browne. Includes four extra plates of characters in the novel-Florence, Edith, Little Paul and Alice. Includes “dark” plate at page 547. Following textual points: No quotation marks around Party on illustrations list, no apostrophe in word aint on page 14, line 10, It and not If on page 426, line 9, Delight for Joy on page 284, lines 5 &amp; 6 from bottom of page 40 have Shew and Shewed instead of Show and Showed, Capatin for Captain on last line of page 324, fidgetty on line 11, page 40, page number present on page 431, no period on last line of page 582.

Dombey and Son First Edition

A first edition, second issue copy of the holiday classic A Christmas Carol.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English, 1812-1870).</li><li>A Christmas Carol In Prose Being A Ghost Story of Christmas.</li><li>London: Chapman and Hall, 1843.</li><li>Illustrated with 4 hand-colored engraved plates by John Leech and 4 black and white illustrations by W.J. Linton.</li><li>Bound in the original straight grained rose-colored cloth, gilt tile and wreath to spine and front cover, yellow pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt.</li></ul> Regarded as Dickens' most widely read novel and considered to be "the greatest Christmas book ever written in any language" (Eckel p. 116) selling more than 6,000 copies in the few days leading up to Christmas. The work was extravagantly costly as Dickens for the first time (and incidentally his last) used color in the title-page and etchings, as he wanted to make the book a beautiful gift and to be a celebration of the Christmas spirit. After the initial success, Dickens continued the series throughout the 1840s, maintaining "the Carol" philosophy to "strike a sledgehammer blow" for the poor, uneducated and repressed.

Also known as The Pickwick Papers, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club is Charles Dickens's first novel.<ul><li>Charles Dickens (English).</li><li>Color plate illustrations by C.E. Brock.</li><li>London:&nbsp;George G. Harrap &amp; Co,&nbsp;[1930].</li><li>xx, 687 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.</li><li>‘Pickwick’ in fine onlaid binding.</li><li>Full brown morocco for Asprey of London, upper cover centered with large illustration in multi-color morocco onlay after a plate in the book.</li><li>Spine lettered in gilt with gilt device of Samuel Pickwick in four panels, a.e.g., gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers.</li></ul>

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

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