DICKENS (CHARLES) Master Humphrey's Clock, FIRST EDITION, IN 20 ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, Chapman and Hall, April 1840-November 1841DICKENS (CHARLES)Master Humphrey's Clock, FIRST EDITION, IN 20 ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, 3 frontispieces, titles and preliminaries, wood-engraved illustrations by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), George Cattermole, S. Williams and Daniel Maclise, all the advertisements as called for by Hatton and Cleaver, publisher's blue-green pictorial wrappers, light stain and tear to wrappers of part 10, upper wrapper of part 11 detached with small loss to blank lower cover, a few small tears and small losses to some spines, preserved in chemises within 2 red crushed morocco gilt pull-off book cases [Eckel, pp.67-70; Gimbel A50; Hatton and Cleaver, pp.163-182], large 8vo, Chapman and Hall, April 1840-November 1841Handsomely housed set of the first edition in monthly parts of Master Humphrey's Clock, which included the first appearance of both The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge, with all the advertisements. Provenance: Sewell, name in upper margin of wrappers to parts 10 and 11; Sotheby's, 13 December 2001.