Dickens (Charles) Mrs. Joseph Porter; Dinner at Poplar Walk; The Bloomsbury Christening; The Boarding House; The Steam Excursion; Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle, in The Albion or British Colonial, and Foreign Weekly Gazette. New series. vol. 2, no. 1 - vol. 3, no. 52, comprising c.103 issues with supplements in 2 vol., horizontal tear to first f. of no. 6 (p. 41), some light creasing or occasional foxing, a few short marginal tears, but generally a clean and excellent set, bookplate of Lt. Colonel Baird to pastedowns, contemporary half calf, some cracking to joints and wear to extremities, rubbed, folio, New York, 1834-35.

⁂ Dickens' first appearance in print in America. Rare, we can trace only one other example at auction.

Along with the New Yorker, the Albion pirated several works by the young Dickens, publishing them either anonymously or signed as Boz. This infraction began Dickens' lifelong campaign to secure international copyright for his works. The works appear in the present volumes as follows:

1. Mrs. Joseph Porter. Vol. 2 no. 13, 1834.

2. Dinner at Poplar Walk. Vol. 2 no. 14, 1834.

3. The Bloomsbury Christening. Vol. 2 no. 19, 1834.

4. The Boarding House. Vol. 2 nos 26 & 41, 1834. Vol. 3 no. 12, 1835.

5. The Steam Excursion. Vol. 2 no. 46, 1834.

6. Passage in the Life of Mr. Watkins Tottle. Vol. 3 no. 6, & Vol. 3 no. 12, 1835.