Dickens's own works
Dickens's library contained a number of copies of his own works, which are listed in the Stonehouse Catalogue and/or the Devonshire Terrace Inventory as follows
Charles Dickens's Public-Reading Books
The identical copies read from by the Author, carefully prepared by himself for that purpose, and bearing his numerous excisions, alterations, and additions, all in his own handwriting. 'I finished the 50 Readings,' says the Author in a letter to John Forster, 'with great success. You have no idea how I have worked at them.*** I have tested all the serious passion in them by everything I know; made the humorous points much more humorous; corrected my utterance of certain words; cultivated a self-possession not to be disturbed; and made myself master of the situation.'
Charles Dickens's Works, in the Order of Their Publication
The Author's own reserved copies; All in clean and excellent condition, and uniformly bound in half crimson morocco.
Charles Dickens's Works. The Author's Own Reserved Copies of the Smaller Editions
Printed for the Blind
Charles Dickens's Works in Foreign Languages
Periodicals and other works
From the Devonshire Terrace Inventory
Additional copies that appear only in Pilgrim's inventory of the Devonshire Terrace library.
From Charles Dickens Junior's Catalogue
Additional copies that appear only in Charles Dickens Junior's Catalogue of the Gad's Hill Library.