The Works. DICKENS (Charles).

Twenty-Six volumes, comprising: The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Sketches by Boz, Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Italy and American Notes, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Christmas Books, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend.

Illustrated with a total of 501 illustrations including frontispieces and vignettes by multiple illustrators including: H. K. Browne (Phiz), G. Cruikshank, G. Cattermole, F. Walker, J. Leech and D. Maclise.

Illustrated Library Edition. 8vo. [197 x 134 x 950 mm]. Contemporary binding by Bickers and Son in full tan morocco, the boards with a triple gilt fillet border and corner devices tooled in gilt, the spine divided into six panels by raised bands, gilt compartments, lettered in gilt in the second and third panels on new dark green and red morocco labels respectively, the edges of the boards tooled with a gilt floral roll, the turn-ins tooled with single line gilt roll, marbled endleaves, all edges gilt. (The odd stain on a few of the boards, spines lightly rubbed, extremities slightly bumped, the hinges to volumes 2, 13 and 20 slightly weak but holding).

London: Chapman and Hall, c.1860s-1870s

Varying conditions internally, light scattered foxing, the occasional dark stains most notably in volumes 10, 12 and 20. Overall a handsome set in very good condition.

Various impressions, most volumes are undated signifying later impressions with the only dated volumes being Nicholas Nickleby (1870), Martin Chuzzlewit (1869) and Little Dorrit (1867). Four further volumes (Uncommercial Traveller, Child's History, Christmas Stories and Edwin Drood) were published later in 1874.

The Illustrated Library Edition was reissued and expanded into 30 volumes from the Library Edition which was originally published in 22 volumes between 1858-9. This edition was popular, remaining in print well into the twentieth century.

Stock no. ebc9014