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CHARLES DICKENS' WORKS.
  
  

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CHARLES DICKENS' WORKS.

THE BEST AND MOST POPULAR BOOKS IN THE WORLD.

Reprinted from the last London Editions, and published by
T. B. PETERSON, No. 102 Chestnut St., Philad'a

“PETERSON'S” is the only complete and uniform edition of Dickens' works published
in America. The cheap edition is complete in Twelve Volumes, paper cover; either or
all of which can be had separately. Price Fifty cents each.

                       
Bleak House,  Price 50 cents. 
David Copperfield,  50 cents. 
Hard Times. Pictures from Italy, etc.,  50 cents. 
Nicholas Nickleby,  50 cents. 
Pickwick Papers,  50 cents. 
Dombey and Son,  50 cents. 
Christmas Stories, (Seven in all, being all ever written by him,)  50 cents. 
Martin Chuzzlewit,  50 cents. 
Barnaby Rudge,  50 cents. 
Old Curiosity Shop,  50 cents. 
Sketches by “Boz,” of Every Day Life and People,  50 cents. 
Oliver Twist, with an entire new Introduction by the Author  50 cents. 

A complete sett of the above will be sold or sent to any one for Five Dollars.

COMPLETE LIBRARY EDITION.

In FIVE very large octavo volumes, containing over Four Thousand very large double
columned pages, handsomely printed, and bound in various styles.

         
Volume 1  contains  Pickwick Papers and Old Curiosity Shop. 
Volume 2  contains  Oliver Twist, Sketches by “Boz,” and Barnaby
Rudge.
 
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Bleak House,  Price $1 50 
Pickwick Papers,  1 50 
Old Curiosity Shop,  1 50 
Oliver Twist,  1 50 
Sketches by “Boz,”  1 50 
Barnaby Rudge,  1 50 
Nicholas Nickleby,  1 50 
Martin Chuzzlewit,  1 50 
David Copperfield,  1 50 
Dombey and Son,  1 50 
Christmas Stories. Seven different ones,  1 50 
Hard Times, Pictures from Italy, etc.,  1 50 

All subsequent Works by Charles Dickens will be issued in uniform style with the above.

Copies of any or all of the above works will be sent to any person, to any part of the
United States, free of postage, on their remitting the price of the ones they may wish, to
the publisher, in a letter, post-paid.

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T. B. PETERSON,
No. 102 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.


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EMERSON BENNETT'S BOOKS.

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Mysteries of the Court of the Stuarts, under the reign of Charles the
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