Title-page for Dickens's "Little Dorrit"
Ticknor and Fields (Boston), Diamond Edition (1871).
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- I. The Pickwick Papers
- II. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
- III. Dombey and Son
- IV. Nicholas Nickleby
- V. The Personal History of David Copperfield
- VI. Bleak House
- VII. Little Dorrit
- VIII. Our Mutual Friend
- IX. Barnaby Rudge and Hard Times
- X. Sketches by Boz and Christmas Books
- XI. Oliver Twist, with American Notes and Pictures from Italy
- XII. The Old Curiosity Shop and Reprinted Pieces
- XIII. A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations
- XIV. The Uncommercial Traveller and Additional Christmas Stories
By the end of 1867, Ticknor and Fields had issued thirteen of the "handy" fourteen Diamond Edition volumes, heralding the arrival of Charles Dickens and his manager, George Dolby, on 9 November 1867. The publishers probably timed the appearance of the final volume to coincide with the Christmas book-buying season.
On the verso of the title-page of each volume in the series of fourteen is the statement that James T. Fields, the author's friend and confidant, so valued since it authorized his firm as Dickens's sole representatives in the United States:
Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, Second April, 1867. By a special arrangement made with me and my English Publishers (partners with me in the copyright of my works), MESSRS. TICKNOR AND FIELDS, of Boston, have become the only authorized representatives in America of the whole series of my books. CHARLES DICKENS.
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Bibliography
Bentley, Nicolas, Michael Slater, and Nina Burgis. The Dickens Index. Oxford and New York: Oxford U. P., 1988.
Davis, Paul. Charles Dickens A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts On File, 1998.
Dickens, Charles. Little Dorrit. Illustrated by Sol Eytinge, Jr. The Diamond Edition. Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1871.
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