By Charles Dickens
Boston   Estes and Lauriat
9" by 6"
A very scarce limited 'Roxburgh Edition' set of the works of renowned Victorian novelist, Charles Dickens, with illustrations.
By Charles Dickens

1892 Roxburgh Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens

Boston   Estes and Lauriat
9" by 6"
A very scarce limited 'Roxburgh Edition' set of the works of renowned Victorian novelist, Charles Dickens, with illustrations.
£595.00
: 30kgs / : 953Y16

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Description

Illustrated, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

A complete collection of the works of eminent Victorian novelist, Charles Dicken, including his most famous titles such as 'Great Expectations' and 'Oliver Twist' as well as his non-fiction works, such as his children's history of England and travel writings. 

This 'Roxburgh Edition' limited to one thousand copies, this set being number 587. Complete in forty-eight volumes. 

Collated, complete with a title portrait of Dickens, numerous illustrated plates and vignettes, as detailed below. 

Uniformly bound in the original quarter leather. 

The entirety of this set comprises the following volumes:

Vol. I - Dombey & Son I - 12 plates 
Vol. II - Dombey & Son II - 14 plates 
Vol. III - Dombey & Son III - 12 plates
Vol. IV - Barnaby Rudge I - 25 plates
Vol. V - Barnaby Rudge II - 25 plates
Vol. VI - Barnaby Rudge III - 24 plates
Vol. VII - Little Dorrit I - 15 plates
Vol. VIII - Little Dorrit II - 13 plates 
Vol. IX - Little Dorrit III - 12 plates
Vol. X - Our Mutual Friend I - 13 plates
Vol. XI - Our Mutual Friend II - 14 plates
Vol. XII - Our Mutual Friend III - 13 plates
Vol. XIII - Martin Chuzzlewit I - 14 plates
Vol. XIV - Martin Chuzzlewit II - 14 plates
Vol. XV - Martin Chuzzlewit III - 11 plates 
Vol. XVI - Nicholas Nickleby I - 13 plates
Vol. XVII - Nicholas Nickleby II - 13 plates 
Vol. XVIII - Nicholas Nickleby III - 13 plates 
Vol. XIX - Curiosity Shop I - 37 plates 
Vol. XX - Curiosity Shop II - 35 plates 
Vol. XXI - Bleak House I - 14 plates 
Vol. XXII - Bleak House II - 13 plates
Vol. XXIII - Bleak House III - 12 plates 
Vol. XXIV - Pickwick Papers I - 18 plates 
Vol. XXV - Pickwick Papers II - 14 plates 
Vol. XXVI - Pickwick Papers III - 13 plates 
Vol. XXVII - Tale of Two Cities I - 12 plates 
Vol. XXVIII - Tale of Two Cities II; Humphrey's Clock - 20 plates 
Vol. XXIX - Child's History of England I - 7 plates 
Vol. XXX - Child's History of England II - 6 plates 
Vol. XXXI - Oliver Twist I - 14 plates
Vol. XXXII - Oliver Twist II - 12 plates 
Vol. XXXIII - Christmas Books I - 4 plates 
Vol. XXXIV - Christmas Books II - 3 plates 
Vol. XXXV - Christmas Books III - 7 plates 
Vol. XXXVI - David Copperfield I - 14 plates 
Vol. XXXVII - David Copperfield II - 12 plates 
Vol. XXXVIII - David Copperfield III - 13 plates 
Vol. XXXIX - Uncommercial Traveller I - 6 plates 
Vol. XL - Uncommercial Traveller II; Pictures from Italy - 6 plates 
Vol. XLI - Great Expectations I - 5 plates 
Vol. XLII - Great Expectations II - 3 plates 
Vol. XLIII - American Notes - 4 plates 
Vol. XLIV - Reprinted Pieces - 4 plates 
Vol. XLV - Sketches by Boz I - 27 plates 
Vol. XLVI - Sketches by Boz II - 13 plates 
Vol. XLVII - Hard Times - 4 plates 
Vol. XLVIII - Edwin Drood - 12 plates 

Condition

In the original quarter leather binding. Externally, smart, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Spine heads and tails are rather worn and chipped. Marks to the boards and scuffs to the spines. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages.

Good

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