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DICKENS, CHARLES Seven first or early American editions in original cloth of Sketches by "Boz", Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, [The Old Curiosity Shop] Master Humphrey's Clock and Great Expectations, comprising: Sketches by "Boz" illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-Day People. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842. 8vo (249 x 149mm.), New edition, complete, 20 illustrations by George Cruikshank original vertically ribbed brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, cream endpapers, occasional offsetting; Sketches by "Boz" Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. Philadelphia. T.B. Peterson and Brothers, [c.1850], 8vo (227 x 138mm.), later American edition, illustrations after George Cruikshank original vertically ribbed brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers; Oliver Twist. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841, 8vo (247 x 144mm.), later American one volume edition, with Dicken's 1841 preface to his third edition, frontispiece and 23 plates after George Cruikshank original horizontally ribbed brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, cream endpapers; The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841, 8vo (244 x 148mm.), later American edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, 39 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz", original horizontally ribbed brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, cream endpapers; [The Old Curiosity Shop and Other Tales] Master Humphrey's Clock. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1841. 8vo (247 x 150mm.), FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, title-pages for The Old Curiosity Shop and Master Humphrey's Clock, with dedication leaf on verso, 91 illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K Browne "Phiz", original horizontally ribbed brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, recased, new endpapers, spine repaired with loss at foot; Barnaby Rudge. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842, 8vo (256 x 152mm.), first American edition in book form, later issue with list of illustrations, 12pp. publisher's advertisements listing this title and 5 other works by Dickens, engraved frontispiece, pictorial title-page and 14 other plates, other woodcut illustrations in the text, all after Sibson, Cattermole and Browne, original vertically ribbed brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, cream endpapers; Great Expectations. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and brothers, [c.1861], 8vo (227 x 138mm.), first American edition, second issue, first American illustrated edition, frontispiece, pictorial title-page and 32 plates after John McLenan, not integral to text, 6pp. advertisements not listing works by Dickens, original vertically ribbed cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, together 7 volumes The T. D Peterson edition of Great Expectations is of particular interest in that it is the FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION to appear anywhere, not just in America. Harper paid Dickens in cash for the advance sheets and sold these on to T.D. Peterson who issued them in several versions in July 1861 in his Dickens "Library" series. Harper then issued the work in Harper's Weekly. The first Peterson Library edition was first issued without illustrations, followed by a second issue (as here) with plates not incorporated within the text, and then a third issue with plates within the text. LITERATURE: First American Editions of Charles Dickens The Calinescu Edition. Sumner and Stillman, I: 46, 56; II: 41 PROVENANCE: Joseph Whitney, book labels; Moses Van Campen Burr, book label; R.P. Boise, inscription;Condition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The