Dark grayish yellowish brown German marbled boards. Moderate yellowish brown leather spine. Sprinkled edges.

Grayish yellow green shell marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Alain de Suzannet. 287.Master Humphreys Clock.... With Illus trations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne.... London: Chapman and Hall, 1840 41. 88 parts (3 vols.). Fronts., illus. 26.5 cm. Weekly numbers, April 4, 1840Nov. 27, 1841. Yellowish white illustrated (by George Catter mole) wrappers. Adverts. on inside front and inside and outside back wrappers, with the following exceptions: the back wrapper of No. 26 is the dedication leaf, printed on inside, blank on outside; the inside front wrappers of Nos. 8083 have an address from the author to the readers; the inside front wrapper of No. 87 has the same address, reset in smaller type, and below, a Postscript. Unstitched. Advertisement slip for Chamberss London Journal tipped in on inside front wrapper of No. 84. 288..... With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne.... London: Chapman and Hall, 184041. 20 parts (3 vols.). Fronts., illus. 26.5 cm. Monthly numbers, April 1840Nov. 1841. In Part 6 the frontispiece and p. [i]iv of Vol. i are between p. 300 and 301, while the dedication leaf follows p. 306. In Part 20 p. [v]vi and [iiv] (in that order) of Vol. iii are between p. 420 and 421. Light bluish green illustrated (by George Cattermole) wrappers. Adverts. on inside front and inside and outside back wrappers, with one exception: the inside front wrapper of Part 19 has an address from the author to the readers. For inserted adverts., there are only a few differ ences from Hatton and Cleaver. In Part 1 the adverts. are at the front instead of at the back.

Part 4 lacks the adverts. In Part 6 the specimen plate is that of Quilp and his Motherin-law. Part 8 lacks the advert. for The National Advertiser. Part 18 lacks John Betts announcement. 289..... With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne.... London: Chapman and Hall, 184041. 3 vols. Fronts., illus. 26.5 cm. Dark grayish red vertical rib cloth, with floral decoration blocked in blind on front and back covers, and the clock, with hands pointing to i, ii, and iii corresponding to the volume numbering, blocked in gold at center of front cover, spine elaborately blocked in gold. Plain edges and white endpapers suggest that this is one of the first copies bound; subsequent copies have marbled edges and endpapers. See Eckel, p. 6869. Dickens Centenary label. 290.Copy 2. 27.5 cm. Blackish green horizontal rib cloth, blocked in blind and gold on front cover, in blind on back cover; both the decoration in blind and the clock in gold differ from Copy 1, and the hands of the clock are set at 12 minutes before i on each vol., spine less elaborately blocked in gold. Plain edges. Pale yellow endpapers. Plates from Illustrations of Master Humphreys Clock, in Seventy Plates, Designed and Etched on Steel, by Thomas Sibson, published in 1842 by Robert Tyas, London, bound in throughout the three volumes. T.p. and List of Illustrations for the set, 8 p. in all, bound in at back of Vol. iii. 291.Copy 3. 1841. Title on spine: Barnaby Rudge. Second half of the work only, consisting of Preface to Barnaby Rudge, p. [v]vi, followed by the last section of Vol. ii, from the beginning of Barnaby Rudge, and all of Vol.