By Charles Dickens
London   Chapman & Hall
7.5" by 5" 991; 992; 1006; 432; 483; 309; 503; 415; 928; 270, 187pp.
A smartly bound collection of volumes from English novelist Charles Dickens, with illustrations, from the Fireside Dickens.
By Charles Dickens

c1900 The Fireside Dickens

London   Chapman & Hall
7.5" by 5" 991; 992; 1006; 432; 483; 309; 503; 415; 928; 270, 187pp.
A smartly bound collection of volumes from English novelist Charles Dickens, with illustrations, from the Fireside Dickens.
£995.00
: 4kgs / : 925T11

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Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

Complete in twenty-two volumes. The Fireside Dickens. Written by Charles Dickens, an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He 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 "Phiz" or Hablot Knight Browne, a British artist and illustrator, as well as Landseer, Maclise, Leech, Tenniel, Stanfield, Walker, Cruikshank, Seymour, Greiffenhagen, Green, Stone, Goodman, and more. This set includes: The Personal History of David Copperfield. Illustrated with forty plates. Collated complete. Bleak House. Illustrated with forty plates. Collated complete. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail, and For Exportation. Illustrated with forty plates. Collated complete. A Child's History of England. Illustrated with forty plates. Collated complete. Christmas Books. Illustrated with sixty-five images. Reprinted Pieces. Illustrated with three plates. Collated complete. The Adventures of Oliver Twist. Illustrated with twenty-four plates. Collated complete. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated with sixteen plates. Collated complete. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Illustrated with forty-three plates. Collated complete. American Notes & Pictures from Italy. Illustrated with six plates. Collated complete. Great Expectations. Illustrated with ten plates. Collated complete. Our Mutual Friend. Illustrated with forty plates. Collated complete. The Old Curiosity Shop. Illustrated with seventy-five plates. Collated complete. The Uncommercial Traveller. Illustrated with four plates. Collated complete. Little Dorrit. Illustrated with forty plates. Collated complete. The Life & Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Illustrated with forty plates. Collated complete. Hard Times. Illustrated with seven plates. Collated complete. Master Humphrey's Clock. Illustrated with nineteen plates. Collated complete. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. Illustrated with seventy-six images. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Illustrated with thirty-nine plates. Collated complete. Sketches by Boz. Illustrated with forty-three plates. Collated complete. Christmas Stories. Illustrated with eight plates. Collated complete. Oxford binding. Dated from the British Library.

Condition

In the original half calf binding with cloth boards. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Light fading to the spines. A small mark to the front board of The Old Curiosity Shop. Light damp marks to the boards of Christmas Books and Hard Times, with tide marks to the endpapers of Christmas Books. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Light age toning to the endpapers.

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