Charles DICKENS. Set of 4 titles in 6 volumes: - Lot 50

Charles DICKENS. Set of 4 titles in 6 volumes: - *Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son*. London, Bradbury and Evans, 1848, in-8, bound in half-basane with corner pieces, decorated ribbed spine, title label, marbled edges. The illustrations, executed according to the author’s very precise instructions, include a frontispiece, an engraved title page with a vignette, and 38 plates by Hablot Knight Browne, including one in mezzotint: “On the Dark Road.” All illustrations have been skillfully reinforced and restored. Rare first edition, first printing, with 8 lines of errata on a separate leaf (additional errata included). - *Master Humphrey’s Clock*. With illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. 1840–1841, 3 tomes in 2 in-4 volumes, bound in half-shagreen with corner pieces, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fillets, gilt edges. First edition of this collection of short stories, originally published in 88 weekly installments under the same title, edited by the author from April 1840 to December 1841. Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece, and the set contains nearly 200 in-text illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Knight Browne. In this copy, the title page of Volume II and the frontispiece are misplaced, with no pages missing; the inner margins of the first two leaves of Volume I have been crudely repaired. - Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Everyday Life and Everyday People. With forty illustrations by George Cruikshank. New edition, complete. London, Chapman and Hall, 1867, 8vo, half-shagreen bound with corner pieces, decorated ribbed spine, comb-cut edges. Illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title page, and 38 plates. - *The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club*. “The Gadshill Edition,” with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. With the original illustrations. London, New York, undated, 2 in-8 volumes bound in the publisher’s full percaline with minor tears. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a frontispiece title page, 23 engravings as inserts in Volume 1, and a frontispiece and 17 engravings as inserts in Volume 2. Appraiser: Cabinet Valleriaux contact@valleriaux.com Please request condition reports: they are not included in the descriptions.