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Charles Dickens. All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. London: 1859-1861.... (Total: 5 Items)
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Charles Dickens. All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. London: 1859-1861.5 volumes (Vols. I-V), 8vo. Five octavo volumes comprising the first 126 numbers of Dickens' weekly periodical. Publisher's red cloth elaborately stamped in blind, upper covers and spine lettered and elaborately stamped in gilt, all edges gilt, Bone & Son binder's ticket on rear pastedown of Vol. I.
THE FIRST FIVE VOLUMES OF CHARLES DICKENS WEEKLY JOURNAL, IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. Contains the first published appearances of two of Dickens' greatest works: A Tale of Two Cities (Vol. I, April 30, 1859 to Vol. II, November 26, 1859), and Great Expectations (Vol. IV, December 1, 1860 to Vol. V, August 3, 1861), as well as Wilkie Collins' important early work of detective fiction, The Woman in White (Vol. II, November 26, 1859 to Vol. III, August 25, 1860).
Condition: Spines lightly sunned with some wear and fraying at ends; minor rubbing and soiling to covers; corners bumped; hinges a bit shaken (a few cracked). Occasional very slight marginal foxing or toning, but generally quite clean. A handsome set.
References: See Smith I:13 (note 3), and I:14 (note 3).
Provenance: Lilian Jowith (ownership signature on front pastedown of Vol. I, dated 1864). The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
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