Barnaby Rudge and Hard Times (in Two Volumes)

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867. Book. Illus. by H. K. Browne / G. Cattermole / F. Walker. Very Good +. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition, first printing, of Vols. IX and X of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens, with title pages dated 1867. Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated April, 1867. With illustrations by H. K. Browne and G. Cattermole in Barnaby Rudge and F. Walker in Hard Times on 36 engraved glossy plates, including frontispieces, protected with tissue (all of the illustrations that appeared in the first edition). Publisher's original dark-green cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine and blindstamped decorations on both covers. "Library Edition" appears in gilt at bottom edge of spine with no volume number. Brown smooth-coated endpapers. xi + 475 and vii + 471 text pages. Single-column text. Printed by Bradbury, Evans and Co., London. Vol. I is VERY GOOD + and Vol. II is NEAR FINE. Frontispiece is loose but intact in Vol. I and two other connected engraved plates are partially loose but still attached. Also, text opens wide in a couple of places in Vol. I but with no looseness of text pages. Vol. II is tightly bound with no looseness of pages or cracking. Both volumes have bright, clean exteriors with bright, unworn gilt on spines and just slight wear at the spine ends and corner tips. Both volumes have bright, clean pages with no foxing or browning to the text or illustrated plates, which are all present. Previous owner's signature in fountain pen on front flyleaf of both volumes: "Martha B. Heath / From Uncle Pratt / Sept. 1868.".