Barnaby Rudge [complete novel in] The Albion: British, Colonial, and Foreign Weekly Gazette. New series. Vol. 2, No. 52 (December 26, 1840) - Vol 3, No. 52 (December 26, 1841) by DICKENS, Charles - 1841

New York: The Albion, 1841. Hardcover. Good. Bound periodical. Folio. 51 issues including supplementary sheets. Quarter leather and mottled pastepaper over boards. Spine eroded, boards nearly detached, scattered foxing and intermittent stains in the page margins, a good only volume of this run. Contains the first printed American appearance of *Barnaby Rudge*, complete in 25 installments, as well as selections from *The Old Curiosity Shop*. These works were first issued in London in parts, preceding only very slightly the American issues, as *Master Humphrey's Clock* (containing both *The Old Curiosity Shop* and *Barnaby Rudge* respectively). Also of interest to Dickens collectors is: "Humphrey From His Clock Side in the Chimney-Corner," printed as a single installment on the same page following the last chapter of *The Old Curiosity Shop*, as well as two articles from July 1841 giving a detailed firsthand account of a "Public Dinner to Charles Dickens, Esq. In Edinburgh," and a review of George Cruikshank's *Omnibus*. Very scarce. Details of this bound volume are available upon request.