c1874 The Life and Adventures of Martin Cuzzlewit; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; Barnaby Rudge; The Personal History of David Copperfield; Sketches by Boz

Description

Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

This set offers five of the twenty-two volumes published of this Household Edition.

In the publisher's original decorative green cloth bindings.

A collection of novels and short pieces from Charles Dickens, an English novelist and social critic who created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

Comprising the following titles:

The Life and Adventures of Martin Cuzzlewit - With fifty-nine illustrations and two leaves of publisher's advertisements to the rear.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club - With fifty-seven illustrations 

Barnaby Rudge - With forty-six illustrations 

The Personal History of David Copperfield - With sixty-one illustrations 

Sketches by Boz - With thirty-four illustrations 

Bearing the bookplate of Nicolas McDowall to the front pastedowns of 'Pickwick Papers' and 'David Copperfield'. Nicolas McDowall established the Old Stile private press with his wife Frances. Working collaboratively with printmakers and artists, the Old Stile press created beautiful, hand-printed works within idyllic surroundings.