c1880-1900 The Works of Charles Dickens
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
Ten volumes containing sixteen works. Written by Charles John Huffam Dickens, an English novelist, journalist, short story writer 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. With illustrations from Hablot Knight Browne, a British artist and illustrator known by his pen name, Phiz; Harry French, a British illustrator and artist; Frederick Barnard, an English illustrator, caricaturist and genre painter; James Mahony, a leading nineteenth century Irish artist and engraver; Sir Samuel Luke Fildes, a British painter and illustrator; Edward Dalziel, of The Brothers Dalziel, prolific wood-engravers. This set contains: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, bound with Hard Times. Illustrated with five hand-coloured plates and numerous in-text images. Dombey and Son, bound with Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. Illustrated with six hand-coloured plates and numerous in-text images. The Adventures of Oliver Twist, bound with Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'. Illustrated with four hand=coloured plates and numerous in-text images. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Illustrated with two hand-coloured plates and numerous in-text images. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Illustrated with five hand-coloured plates and numerous in-text images. Our Mutual Friend. Illustrated with four hand-coloured plates and numerous in-text images. The Personal History of David Copperfield. Illustrated with three hand-coloured plates and numerous in-text images. The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Reprinted Pieces, and Other Stories, bound with A Child's History of England. Illustrated with five hand-coloured plates and numerous in-text images. Christmas Books, bound with Christmas Stories, and American Notes and Pictures from Italy. Illustrated with nine hand-coloured plates and numerous in-text images. The Life of Charles Dickens. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, two hand-coloured plates and numerous in-text images. Written by John Forster, a Victorian English biographer and literary critic. Collated complete.
Condition
Bound in half crushed morocco with cloth boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. Minor loss to the head and tail of the spines. Hinges starting but firm, particularly to the front hinge. Internally, firmly bound with the contents page of David Copperfield detached but present. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and age toning to the endpapers. A 2" closed tear to one of the colour plates of The Adventures of Oliver Twist and the odd small closed tear to the pages of David Copperfield. With loss to the edge pages 1/2 of The Mystery of Edwin Drood impacting the text slightly.
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