Mixed Books (12) Charles Dickens (2) - The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Christmas Stories & Other Stories - earliest issue 1870 being a bound copy of the six original parts - all plates present and text is complete, and also with five of the original six upper blue-green wrappers as issued in the original instalment parts. A rare first edition of Dickens last book, left unfinished at his death. It was meant to have been issued in 12 instalments, but the death of Dickens meant that only six - as in this volume - were issued. Bound in late olive-brown calf with marbled boards, a little rubbed. The original wrapper covers are bound in the rear, with wrapper six bearing a slip reading 'eighteen pence' over the one-shilling price confirming that this is the earliest issue, plus Christmas Stories and other stories, first edition 1894. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering, slight rubbing to edges and spine, interior contents appear good. A compilation of many Dickens short stories which originally appeared in 'Household Words' and 'All the Year Round (2), plus William Makepeace Thackaray - The Book of Snobs, 1878, together with The Luck of Barry Lyndon, 1893, Anthony Trollope's Biographical study of Thackeray, and two other 19th century satires - Harry Coverdale's Courtship by Frank Smedley and The Dodd Family Abroad, by Charles Lever (5), 1788 Thomas Martyn Thirty-Eight Plates with Explanations, intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of Vegetables On The Elements of Botany - all 38 plate complete in, front board is loose F/G, 1811 Neal's History of Puritans: or the rise, principles, and sufferings of the protestant dissenters, Edward Parsons - 2nd edition of Parsons abridgement in 2 Vols and 1920 The Autobiography of Margot Asquith, 1920 reprint with dedication and signature to front pages from Mary Asquith in 2 vols (Box)