The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (in Two Volumes)

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. Book. Very Good +. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two-volume complete set. First American edition of Vols. XIII and XIV of the original 27-volume deluxe illustrated Library Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens, with title pages dated 1868. Statement from Charles Dickens on copyright page authorizing this edition dated April, 1867. With illustrations on 39 engraved glossy plates, including frontispieces, protected with tissue (all of the illustrations that appeared in the 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. xviii + 435 and x + 430 text pages. Single-column text. Printed by Virtue and Co., London. Both volumes are in VERY GOOD + condition. Both volumes have bright, clean exteriors with bright, unworn gilt on spines and just very slight wear at the spine ends. One small faint stain on front board of Vol. II and otherwise very little surface wear. Text opens wide in a few places in both volumes exposing the inner threading but text remains firmly bound, but in Vol. I one illustrated plate is loose but fully intact and one illustrated plate is torn at the bottom corner but with no loss to the illustration. Both volumes have bright, clean pages with no foxing or browning to the text or illustrated plates, which are all present. Previous owner's signature in fountain pen on front flyleaf of both volumes: "Martha B. Heath / From Father / July 2nd 1868.".