Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities All The Year Round 7 Volume Set

London: No. 11, Wellington Street North, 1859. First edition. All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. London: C. Whiting for No. 26 Wellington Street, Volumes I-II, 30 April 1859 - 7 April 1860; Volumes IV-VIII, 13 October 1860 - 21 February 1863.


FIRST APPEARANCES of A Tale of Two Cities (nos.1-31) and Great Expectations (nos.84-119) in serialized form. A Tale of Two Cities had first appeared in the weekly journal All the Year Round from 30 April to 26 November 1859. All the Year Round was considered a replacement or continuation of Household Words, which had ceased publication in 1857. Vol.I-II and IV-VIII of All the Year Round contain many other pieces by Dickens including several sketches which afterwards appeared in book form as The Uncommercial Traveller. Eckel, pp. 194-195; Gimbel E9-21.

These books measure approximately 9.5" x 6" with over 600 numbered pages in each volume. Volume III is missing.

Good overall condition. General shelf wear. Volume 4 & 5 front and rear boards are loose and cracked. Volume 6 front board cracked. Volume 7 front and rear boards cracked. Volume 8 rear board cracked.

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