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c1930-33 16Vols The works of Charles Dickens
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Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding
In the publisher's original red cloth bindings. The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club
A smart sixteen-volume set of Dickens’s complete novels and stories, uniformly bound, with a biography of the author by H. C. Dent. Issued by Odhams in the early 1930s, this set captures the golden age of popular Dickens reprints, when the author’s works were finding renewed life in affordable library editions.
Each work is introduced by a frontispiece and accompanied by numerous plates by George Cruikshank, Phiz [Hablot K. Browne], Marcus Stone, John Leech, and J. Mahony, whose illustrations helped define the visual world of Dickens’s fiction.
These copies are undated. Dated here using Jisc, from copies held at the University of Essex Library & Cultural Services.
This set includes:
Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Old Curiosity Shop; Uncommercial Traveller
Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ’Eighty; Edwin Drood
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Bleak House
Little Dorrit
A Tale of Two Cities; American Notes
Great Expectations
Our Mutual Friend
A Child’s History of England; Christmas Stories
A Christmas Carol and Other Stories; Reprinted Pieces
The Life and Characters of Charles Dickens by H. C. Dent.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, generally smart. Slight offsetting to endpapers with the odd spot. Front hinges of “Dombey and Son,” “Pickwick,” “Barnaby Rudge,” and “Chuzzlewit,” cracked, with binding materials partially exposed, but holding firm. Spines of “Dombey,” “Curiosity Shop,” slightly loose from binding, but holding at the boards. Slight cockling to spine of “Great Expectations”. Hinges of “Our Mutual Friend,” “Child’s History,” “Curiosity Shop,” cracked, with binding materials exposed, but holding, less so to “Our Mutual Friend,” loose but holding. Slight cockling to rear paste down of “Sketches” at the gutter. Fading to perimeters of boards of “Copperfield,” and “Sketches." Internally, firmly bound. Hinges slightly strained in pales, but holding firm. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot to first and last few leaves. Slight cockling to pages of “Bleak House,” and “Barnaby Rudge.” Small closed tear to front free endpaper of “Barnaby Rudge."
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