Works of Charles Dickens. Household Edition. 20 volumes. Includes: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (4 vols.); Hard Times and Reprinted Pieces (2 vols.); Barnaby Rudge. A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (3 vols.); Dombey and Son (4 vols.) Etc.

New York: Sheldon and Company, 1866. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Incomplete set, dating from the 1860s. Includes: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (4 vols.); Hard Times and Reprinted Pieces (2 vols.); Barnaby Rudge. A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty (3 vols.); Dombey and Son (4 vols.); The Old Curiosity Shop and Reprinted Pieces (3 vols.); Little Dorrit (4 vols.). Uniformly bound in greenish-blue cloth, with gilt titling on the spines and a small gilt emblem on the front covers. Cloth with a somewhat glossy finish. With frontispiece illustrations by F.O.C. Darley and John Gilbert. A collection of various classics by Charles Dickens. GOOD or slightly better condition. Slightly ex-library, with a gift bookplate on the inside front cover of each volume. No other library markings or treatments noted in any volume. All with moderate to heavy uneven fading to the cloth, as well as minor to heavy discoloration/spotting to the cloth (varying among the volumes), perhaps due to the glossy finish to the cloth. Minor soiling, scuffing and edgewear. A few with minor bubbling to the cloth. Interiors clean and solid, with minor toning to the paper. Previous owner's name on the first endpapers. Specific condition issues as follows. Volume 1 of Nicholas Nickleby rather spotted, with a faint white paint streak across the upper page edges, not affecting text. Volume 3 with some paint flecks on the spine. Volume 3 of The Old Curiosity Shop with 2 signatures almost detached from the binding (at page 195) and jutting out slightly from the block. Two paint flecks to the front cover of volume 1 of Little Dorrit.