The Selected Works of Charles Dickens: Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People, The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Master Humphrey’s Clock, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times. For These Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities, The Uncommercial Traveller, The Adventures of Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Finley bound collection of the selected works of Charles Dickens. Octavo, 15 volumes finely bound in full straight grain morocco by Carss & Co. with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and double gilt-ruled inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbons bound in. The collection includes: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London: Chapman and Hall, 1838. Later issue. Illustrated with etched plates by Robert Seymour and Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"); Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. New edition, Complete; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition in book form. Illustrated with 39 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"); Master Humphrey's Clock. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840. Three volumes bound in one. First edition in book form; The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. London: Chapman and Hall, 1844. First edition in book form, first issue (with "100PS" on engraved title). Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"); Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition in book form.  Lacking half title; errata mounted following p. xvi. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"); The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850. First edition in book form. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"); Bleak House. London: London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. First edition in book form. Lacking half-title. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"); Hard Times. For These Times. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854. First edition; Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition in book form. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"); A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition in book form, mixed issue (with p. 213 correctly paginated, but p. 134, line 12 with "affectionately" misspelled, and no signature "B" to list of plates leaf. Without 32-pp. ads at rear found in some copies. Illustrated with an etched frontispiece, etched vignette title page, and 14 etched plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"); The Uncommercial Traveller. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861. Third edition; Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Two volumes bound as one. First edition in book form. Lacking half-titles and ads. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by Marcus Stone; The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition in book form. Illustrated with engraved portrait by Baker, and 12 etched plates and vignette title-page by S.L. Fildes. In near fine condition with scattered foxing throughout the volumes. A stunning set.