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CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
Lot 87

DICKENS (CHARLES)
Master Humphrey's Clock, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, IN ORIGINAL 88 WEEKLY PARTS, Chapman and Hall, April 1840-December 1841

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

Master Humphrey's Clock, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, IN ORIGINAL 88 WEEKLY PARTS, wood-engraved illustrations by G. Cattermole and H.K. Browne, with preliminary matter (title, preface and frontispieces) to parts 26, 52 and 88, and addresses by the author in Parts 9, 80-83 and 87, publisher's white pictorial wrappers, some soiling (especially to latter parts) and occasional spotting, the majority neatly restored at joint (see footnote), a few with small repairs at corners and edges, preserved in red cloth solander box with gilt lettered spine (worn at corners) [cf. Eckel p.67ff; Gimbel A49; Hatton & Cleaver p.163], large 8vo, Chapman and Hall, April 1840-December 1841

Footnotes

THE RAREST OF THE THREE ISSUES, IN 88 WEEKLY PARTS. Master Humphrey's Clock was one of the first works to appear in weekly as well as monthly parts, containing the two novels The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Collis's loosely inserted note dated 12 July 1936 records that this set was "cleaned and repaired by Morrell in January 1935".

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