1905-1906 The Biographical Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

The Biographical Edition. Complete in nineteen volumes. 

An attractive and bright set of works from one of the most prominent novelists of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens. With each volume accompanied by biographical introductions. 

Uniformly bound in very smart half calf, signed by Bayntun, with marbled endpapers.

Each volume is profusely illustrated throughout, including work from artists such as George Cruikshank and Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), both of whom became well known for their illustrations in Dickens' works. 

With a frontispiece, vignette title page and an array of plates and in-text illustrations throughout. 

As well as famous novels such as 'Oliver Twist' and 'Great Expectations', this set features some of Dickens' non-fiction works, such as his travelogue describing his journey through Italy and its famous sights ('Pictures from Italy') and 'American Notes', a critical portrait of the young American nation, as observed by Dickens during his travels through the U.S.

The entirety of the set comprises the following:

Vol. I: Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People 
Vol. II: The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club 
Vol. III: The Adventures of Oliver Twist
Vol. IV: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby  
Vol. V: The Old Curiosity Shop 
Vol. VI: Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty 
Vol. VII: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 
Vol. VIII: American Notes: Pictures from Italy and a Child's History of England 
Vol. IX: Christmas Books and Hard Times 
Vol. X: Dombey and Son 
Vol. XI: The Personal History of David Copperfield 
Vol. XII: Bleak House 
Vol. XIII: Little Dorrit 
Vol. XIV: Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round" and Other Stories
Vol. XV: A Tale of Two Cities 
Vol. XVI: Great Expectations and The Uncommercial Traveller 
Vol. XVII: Our Mutual Friend
Vol. XVIII: Edwin Drood and Reprinted Pieces 
Vol. XIX: Collected Papers