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A perfectly serviceable set, complete in fifteen (15) volumes, of The Collected Works of Charles Dickens. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition. Printed for them by Trow's Printing and Bookbinding of New York. Eastily a Fair condition set but bordering on Good, inside and out, with still-tight bindings, mostly clean interiors, complete of pagination, and still standing handsomely on the shelf. A still attractive exemplar of an edition published in the heyday of mid-late 19th-century bindings by a publisher that had a short but consequential publishing run: Belford, Clarke & Company, of Chicago and New York. Bound in short hardcover format, with marbled paper over boards, half-leather (over tips and spine), raised bands to spines, gilt lettered titles and author's name there, and marbled page edges all around if rubbed and faded. Somewhat improbably, all but one of the pastedowns are intact. Moderate toning to pages, some but not a lot of foxing and discoloration, a few folded and creased pages. Scuffing to joints and edges, some bruising to and scuffing of tips and to (the five) raised bands, but all hinges sturdy and interiors clean, if toned, with a few dog-eared pages, a torn page here and there, some scattered pencil marks here and there, etc. Four blind-stamped navigator's wheels to spines, gilt-stamped titles and author's name. Else a solid, still attractive set and with sewn-in head-bands. "Sketches by Boz" in the form of black-and-white steel engravings and with illustrations including full-page plates, by F. Barnard, J. Mahoney, F.A. Fraser and S. Green. The set is dated on neither title page nor copyright page, but the dual imprint of Chicago and New York on title pages shows that the set was produced likely in the 1880s (as the publisher operated from 1879 to 1892 by which time the publisher was no longer operational). The web-site entry for Jules Verne books published by them, on julesverne dot ca forward slash vernebooks forward slash Publishers jules-verne_BelfordClarke dot etc. shows that, in March of 1879, Belfords [sic], Clarke & Co. "advertised for agents in Toronto at 60 York St. By August, 1879, the firm had left Toronto and had settled in Chicago," having failed to secure a footing in Toronto, and there, in March of 1880, "a new outfit, Belford, Clarke & Co. was operating as a publisher" and set up shop also in New York. Their run ended in receivership in 1889 and later, in effect, bankruptcy, with the company splitting into New York (The Belford Company) and Chicago branches (Belford, Clarke & Company). The set here is comprised of the following titles, each with tissue-guarded plates at frontises and with illustrations by F. Barnard unless noted otherwise: A Tale of Two Cities (frontis matter, 8-821 pp.); The Old Curiosity Shop[,] Hard Times, and the Holly Tree Inn (illustrated by S. Green, vi [1], 8-832 pp.); The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (iv [1], 4-832 pp.); Our Mutual Friend (illustrated by J. Mahoney, viii [1], 4-830 pp.); Dombey and Son (vi, [1], 8-837 pp.); The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (vii [2], 4-807 pp.); Barnaby Rudge, and Edwin Drood (vi [1], 8-837 pp.); The Personal History of David Copperfield (frontis matter, 4-854 pp.); Great Expectations (illustrated by F.A. Fraser, vi [1], 8-825 pp.); Christmas Books and Reprinted Pieces (vi [1], 8-840 pp.); Little Dorrit (illustrated by J. Mahoney, vi [1], 8-832 pp., with tape-reinforced rear pastedown); The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (iv [3], 4-823 pp.); Bleak House (vi [1], 8-862 pp.); A Child's History of England and Miscellaneous Pieces (no illustrator listed, vi [1], 8-829 pp.); The Adventures of Oliver Twist, also, Pictures From Italy, and American Notes (illustrated by J. Mahoney, viii [1], 8-829 pp. plus full index to all fifteen volumes).Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for.
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