19th century

Twentieth edition, pp [32] 219, 48 adverts dated 1887-88, 9 maps and plans, previous owner' initials in ink inside; publisher's red cloth gilt; a very good copy.

Third edition. ccxvi, 293pp, 14 maps, 33 plans, 7 views, and 76 vignettes, previous owner's signature on endpapers, inner hinges slightly cracked; publisher's original red cloth gilt; a very good copy

First edition thus; 8vo, (22.8 x 16 cm); 52 original etchings by A. Lalauze, including portrait frontispiece and head- and tail-pieces, occasional light offsetting, contemporary ownership inscription in pencil dated 1888, marbled endpapers; contemporary half morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, corners rubbed, overall a very good copy; xvi, 516pp.

First edition. lxxxii, 372 pp, 3 maps and 8 plans, previous owner's signatures on preliminary pages, some ephemara inserted loose, pages a little browned; publisher's old type red cloth gilt; a very good copy.

Sixteenth edition.pp. [62], [ii] 542, 52 adverts dated 1903-1904 at rear, 33 maps and plans including folding map in rear pocket, publisher's note inserted loose; publisher's original red cloth gilt, corners slightly bumped: a very good copy.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Publisher's dark green cloth, titles spine gilt, first issue binding with top edge gilt. An exceptionally nice copy and distinctly scarce thus.

First US edition, first issue (with errata to verso of title in vol II); 2 vols, 8vo, (20.2 x 13.5 cm); illustrated throughout, hinges slightly loose on vol I but holding, occasional marginal annotations in vol I, slight spotting to prelims, slight marginal discolouration of leaves to both vols, pale yellow endpapers; publisher's russet cloth stamped in black with frames and cornerpieces, gilt lettering to spine, black ink stain to upper cover of vol II, spines bumped, corners slightly rubbed, overall a very good set; [vi], 409, [2]ads; [vii], 436, [12]ads pp.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo, (24.6 x 15.5 cm); 104 hand-coloured stipple engraved illustrations of fruit on 98 plates, including 7 folding, scattered light spotting, occasional offsetting, some plates trimmed by the binder (as usual); contemporary green morocco, blind and gilt embossed, all edges gilt, corners slightly rubbed, overall a very good copy of a scarce work; vii, [iv], 96; 104pp.

First editions, first impressions; 2 vols, 8vo; illustrated throughout, scattered light foxing; publisher's blue cloth, devices to boards, and titles to spines gilt, all edges gilt, black coated endpapers, spines bumped, corners a little rubbed, overall a very good set; vi, [2], 212; [vi], 238, [2, ads]pp.

First edition in book form ('latter' for 'letter', p. 160; 'flys' for 'flies', p. 245; 'visiters' for 'visitors', p. 272); 8vo (234 x 154 mm, 12¾ x 6 in); half-title, engraved portrait of Dickens after Daniel Maclise, 39 engraved plates by H.K. Browne [Phiz], frontispiece and first four illustrations in first state with imprint of Chapman and Hall (cf. Smith I, 5, p. 42), some minor toning and a few spots to plates, portrait of Dickens spotted (as usual) with transfer onto title-page opposite, plate 37 ('The breaking up at Dotheby's Hall') bound out of sequence after p. 620, small closed tears to list of plates professionally repaired at outer margin, very small loss to upper corner of pp. 501-502 (not affecting text); publisher's dark olive green cloth, front and back covers stamped in blind, recased with new yellow endpapers, spine slightly sunned, small closed tear at foot, extremities slightly bumped, othewise very good.