1874-1889 The Works of Charles Dickens

Description

Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

Complete in thirty volumes, this is a fantastic edition of the works of the celebrated Victorian novelist.

In signed half morocco bindings from Jarndyce.

The set is heavily illustrated throughout by the likes of Marcus Stone, H. K. Browne and George Cruikshank, and includes Dickens' most popular works such as 'Oliver Twist', 'A Christmas Carol', 'A Tale of Two Cities' and 'Nicholas Nickleby'. 

Alongside Dickens's fiction, this set includes his journalism, history, and travel writings.

Present here are:
'Great Expectations', illustrated with seven plates.
'A Tale of Two Cities', illustrated with fifteen plates.
'Sketches by Boz', illustrated with thirty-eight plates.
'Edwin Drood', illustrated with eleven plates.
'The Uncommercial Traveller', with eight plates.
'Oliver Twist', with twenty-four plates.
'Christmas Stories', with thirteen plates.
'Christmas Books', with four plates.
'A Child's History of England', with seven plates.
'American Notes and Pictures from Italy', with seven plates.
'Dombey and Son', in two volumes, with thirty-seven plates.
'Barnaby Rudge', in two volumes, with vignette illustrations.
'Our Mutual Friend', in two volumes, with forty plates.
'David Copperfield', in two volumes, with thirty-nine plates.
'Pickwick Papers', in two volumes, with forty-two plates.
'Nicholas Nickleby', in two volumes, with thirty-nine plates.
'Bleak House', in two volumes, with thirty-nine plates.
'Little Dorrit', in two volumes, with thirty-nine plates.
'Martin Chuzzlewit', in two volumes, with thirty-nine plates.
'The Old Curiosity Shop', in two volumes, with four plates and further vignette illustrations.

Collated, complete.

With the bookplate of German-born Randlord, diamond magnate, and art collector Sir Julius Wernher to each front pastedown. 

With the bookplate of L R Rawlings to front free endpapers.