[1887-8] The Works of Charles Dickens

Description

Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding

The 'Charles Dickens' autograph edition.

A thirteen volume set, featuring eighteen volumes of works by Charles Dickens.

This set includes; ‘The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby’, ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’, ‘Bleak House’, ‘Dombey and Son’, ‘Little Dorrit’, ‘The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit’, ‘The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club’, ‘Great Expectations’ with ‘American Notes, and Reprinted Pieces’, ‘The Old Curiosity Shop’ with ‘A Tale of Two Cities’, ‘Sketches by Boz’ with ‘Christmas Books’, ‘Our Mutual Friend’, ‘Barnaby Rudge’ with ‘The Uncommercial Traveller’, ‘The Adventures of Oliver Twist’, and ‘Hard Times and Pictures from Italy’. 

Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece and seven monochrome plates to all but ‘David Copperfield’ which has a frontispiece and eight plates and ‘The Uncommercial Traveller’ which has three plates and a frontispiece. Collated, complete.

A collection of works from the renowned Victorian novelist, Charles Dickens. Dickens created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

Bound in beautiful contemporary half calf with marbled paper to the boards and gilt details to the spines.
 
Undated, dated by a statement to the edition page 'printed from the stereotype edition, 1887-8'.