Dombey and Son (in Two Volumes)

Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1869. Book. Illus. by H. K. Browne. Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition, second issue, with title pages dated 1869 (first published in 1868 by Ticknor and Fields, which became Fields, Osgood and Co. in 1869). Vols. XIII and XIV of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens.Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated April, 1867. With illustrations by H. K. Browne on 38 engraved glossy plates, including frontispieces, protected with tissue (all the illustrations that appeared in the 1848 first edition). Publisher's original dark-green cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling on the spine and blindstamped decorations on both covers. "Library Edition" appears in gilt at bottom edge of spine with no volume number. Brown smooth-coated endpapers. ix + 454 and ix + 459 text pages. Single-column text. Printed by Virtue and Co., London. Both volumes are NEAR FINE. Slight touches of wear at the top spine ends and corner tips. Vol. I opens wide at half-title page and Vol. II opens wide at Contents page exposing the inner threading. Otherwise Fine. Both volumes are very bright, clean, crisp and unworn with no bumping, no sunning and bright gilt on spine. Tightly bound and square with no cracking to the hinges. Both volumes have bright, clean pages with no foxing or browning to the text or illustrated plates. Previous owner's signature in fountain pen on front flyleaf of both volumes: "Martha B. Heath / From Cousin ___ / Aug. 1870.".