Surviving copies

85 titles in 258 volumes found

In several cases the actual copy of a title owned by Charles Dickens and identified with his bookplate has survived and is preserved either in the Dickens Museum or another collection. Those that have been traced are listed here with their current known location.

Title Volumes Publication date Authors Current location
A Children's Summer 1 1853 Boyle, Mary Louisa (M.L.B.)
Boyle, Eleanor Vere (E.V.B.)
 Dickens Museum
A Collection of the Most Remarkable and Interesting Trials, including State Trials 2 1775-76 Anon./Unknown
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A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language 1 1836 Walker, John
Smart, Benjamin Humphrey
 Dickens Museum
A good night's rest, or, Two in the morning!, A farce in one act 1 1839? Gore, Catherine Grace Frances
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A History of Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea 2 1833 Redding, Cyrus
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A Wonderful Woman 1 1850-51 Dance, Charles
 Dickens Museum
Alnwick Castle; with other Poems 1 1836 Halleck, Fitz-Greene
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London, during the Eighteenth Century 1 1808 Malcolm, James Peller
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Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London, from the Roman Invasion to 1700 1 1811 Malcolm, James Peller
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Animal Magnetism 1 1789 Inchbald, Elizabeth
 Dickens Museum
Arctic Explorations: the Second and Last United States Grinnell Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin 1 1868 Kane, Elisha Kent (Dr.)
 Dickens Museum, see http://www.collections.dickensmuseum.com/object--lib-1006
Catiline, an Historical Drama 1 1839 Reade, John Edmund
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 1 1859 Byron (Lord)
 Dickens Museum
Colossal Vestiges of the Older Nations 1 1862 Linton, William
 Dickens Museum, Jarndyce
Egeria, or the Spirit of Nature; and other Poems 1 1850 Mackay, Charles
 Jarndyce
Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy, delivered at the Royal Institution, 1804-6 1 1849 Smith, Sydney (Rev.)
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English Sonnets 1 1833 Dyce, Alexander (Rev.)
 Dickens Museum
Essays and Tales in Prose, [including Early and Unpublished Pieces] 2 1853 Procter, Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall)
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Eva; or the Buried City of Bannow, a Historical Tale of the Early English Invadors - Frank Farrell, the Irish National Teacher, or Honour and Passion 1 1866 Hanrahan, P. R.
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Every Man in his Humour, (Cumberland's Acting Edition, with Remarks by G. Daniel) 1 n.d. Jonson, Ben
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Historical Memoirs of his Own Time 4 1836 Wraxall, Nathaniel William (Sir)
 Dickens Museum
Juvenile Poems 1 1843 Black, Charles Ingham
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L'Homme à l'Oreille Cassée 1 1862 About, Edmond
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Le Diable Boiteux; précédé d'une Notice sur Le Sage par Jules Janin 1 1840 Lesage, Alain-René
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Les Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire 70 1834 Arouet, François-Marie (Voltaire)
 Dickens Museum
Life in London; or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis 1 1869 Egan, Pierce
Hotten, John Camden
 Jarndyce
Literary Remains of Edward Lewis Johnson Esq. 1 1844 Johnson, Edward Lewis
 Dickens Museum
Lives of the most Eminent English Poets; with critical Observations on their Works 3 1854 Johnson, Samuel (Dr.)
Cunningham, Peter
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Lord Lytton's Works 20 1851-60 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton
 Jarndyce
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott 7 1837 Lockhart, John Gibson
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Never Forgotten, a Novel 3 1865 Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington
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Nicholas Nickleby at the Yorkshire School: A Reading, In Four Chapters 1 [1861] n.d. Dickens, Charles
 Dickens Museum, see http://www.collections.dickensmuseum.com/object--lib-1001--1971-98
Not So Bad As We Seem 1 1851 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton
 Dickens Museum
Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, by way of Lisbon, Athens, Constantinople and Jerusalem 1 1846 Thackeray, William Makepeace
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Novels and Tales 20 1841 Cooper, James Fenimore
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Oeuvres de J. J. Rousseau, Citoyen de Genève 6 1817 Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
 Jarndyce
Old Leaves: gathered from Household Words 1 1860 Wills, William Henry
 Dickens Museum
Pamphlets (Various) 1 1848-50 Various
 private collection
Poems 1 1840 Bryant, William Cullen
 private collection
Poems by Samuel Rogers 2 1839 Rogers, Samuel
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Political Essays, with Sketches of Public Characters 1 1822 Hazlitt, William
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Posthumous Memoirs of his Own Time 3 1836 Wraxall, Nathaniel William (Sir)
 Dickens Museum
Queen Mab 1 1821 Shelley, Percy Bysshe
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Rob Roy 1 1855 Scott, Walter (Sir)
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Roland Cashel 2 1854 Lever, Charles
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Sermons 3 1816 Venn, John
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Shakespeare-Characters, chiefly those subordinate 1 1863 Clarke, Charles Cowden
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Sisters of Charity, Catholic and Protestant, abroad and at home 1 1855 Jameson, Anna Brownell
 Dickens Museum
Sketches and Essays, now first collected by his Son 1 1839 Hazlitt, William
Hazlitt, William, Jr.
 private collection
Smollett; his Life, and a Selection from his Writings 1 1867 Chambers, Robert
 Dickens Museum
Songs, Naval and National, with a Memoir and Addenda, by T. Dibdin 1 1841 Dibdin, Charles
Dibdin, Thomas
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Strathcairn, a Novel 2 1864 Collins, Charles Allston
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Substance and Shadow: or Morality and Religion in their Relation to Life: an Essay upon the Physics of Creation 1 1866 James, Henry
 Dickens Museum
Supplement to Vacation Rambles: consisting of Recollections of a tour through France, to Italy, and homeward by Switzerland in the Vacation of 1846 1 1854 Talfourd, Thomas Noon (Sir)
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Tales and Novels 18 1832 Edgeworth, Maria
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Tarlton's Jests, and News out of purgatory with notes, and some account of the life of Tarlton 1 1844 Halliwell, James Orchard
 Jarndyce
The Bastille Prisoner 1 [1861] n.d. Dickens, Charles
 Dickens Museum
The Battle of Life: A Dramatization 1 1846 Smith, Albert Richard
 Dickens Museum
The Castilian, an Historical Tragedy, in Five Acts 1 1853 Talfourd, Thomas Noon (Sir)
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The Dance of Death, exhibited in elegant Engravings on Wood, with a Dissertation on the several Representations of that Subject, but more particularly on those ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein 1 1833 Douce, Francis
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The Dear Girl; a Novel 3 1868 Fitzgerald, Percy Hetherington
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The Death of Marlowe, a Tragedy, in One Act 0 1837 Horne, Richard H.
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The gentleman in black, and Tales of other days, / with illustrations by George Cruikshank and others. 1 1845 Dalton, James
Akerman, John Yonge
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The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time 1 [1848] n.d. Dickens, Charles
 Dickens Museum, see http://www.collections.dickensmuseum.com/object--lib-1253--1971-1-97
The Knight of Gwynne, a Tale of the Time of the Union 2 1847 or 1853? Lever, Charles
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The Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith 4 1848 Forster, John
 Dickens Museum
The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 2 1831 Defoe, Daniel
Barton, Bernard
 Dickens Museum
The Life and Times of General Washington 2 1835 Edmonds, Cyrus R.
 private collection
The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots: with Other Sketches of the Times 1 1839 Morris, George Pope
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The New Testament, etc. 1 1859 Anon./Unknown
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The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran Arabs 1 1867 Baker, Samuel White (Sir)
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The Provost of Bruges, a Tragedy 0 1836 Lovell, George William
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The Three Gates, in Verse 1 1859 Townshend, Chauncy Hare (Rev.)
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The Vision, or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise 1 1850 Alighieri, Dante
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The Wandering Jew 1 1844-1845 Sue, Eugène
 private collection
The Works of Mr. Thomas Otway; consisting of his Plays, Poems and Letters 3 1768 Otway, Thomas
 Dickens Museum
Traditions of Edinburgh 1 n.d. Chambers, Robert
 Dickens Museum
Tragedies and Poems; Knight's Pictorial Edition 2 1873-76 Shakespeare, William
 Dickens Museum
Travels in Peru, in 1838-42; on the Coast, in the Sierra, across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests 1 1847 Tschudi, Johann Jakob von
Ross, Thomasina
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Turning the Tables 1 1850-51 Poole, John
 Dickens Museum
Used up : a petit comedy in two acts 1 1850-51 Boucicault, Dion
 Dickens Museum
Veronica, a Novel, by the Author of 'Aunt Margaret's Trouble', 'Mabel's Progress', etc. 3 1870 Trollope, Frances Eleanor
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Voyage aux Iles de la Mer du Sud en 1827-8, et Relation de la Découverte du Sort de La Perouse 2 1830 Dillon, Peter (Capit.)
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Walden; or Life in the Woods 1 1866 Thoreau, Henry David
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Works 10 1806 Fielding, Henry
Murphy, Arthur
Chalmers, Alexander
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