DICKENS, CHARLES - Works of Charles Dickens [Manuscript Edition]

The Manuscript Edition Very Finely Bound Limited to 100 Elaborately Illustrated Copies DICKENS, Charles. Works of Charles Dickens. With more than One Thousand Illustrations including all the usual & very many unusual plates. Edited by Richard Garnett. London: Merrill & Baker, [1900]. Manuscript Edition. Limited to 100 numbered and registered copies, this being copy No. 36. Thirty-two octavo volumes (9 x 6 in; 230 x 182 mm). Elaborately illustrated with hand colored frontispieces or original watercolors (aquarelles) to most volumes, including photogravures, etchings, photo-etchings, from the original illustrations by Frederick Barnard, Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), George Cattermole, George Cruikshank, Dalziel, F.O.C. Darley, Luke Fildes, John Gilbert, Edwin Landseer, John Leech, Daniel Maclise, J. Mahoney, F.W. Pailthorpe, Robert Seymour, Stanfield, F. Stone, Marcus Stone, and others. All illustrations with titled tissue guards. Finely bound in contemporary full crimson Levant morocco (unsigned; by Henry W. Stikeman of NYC?). Gilt ruled borders, gilt ruled central panel with corner ornaments, initials, and foliate decoration. Raised bands. six gilt ruled compartments with corner ornaments. Wide, elaborately gilt decorated dentelles. Blue silk doublures. Blue silk endpapers. Top edge gilt. A fine set. The Books and Frontispiece Artists: 1. Sketches By Boz - Aquarelle by Geo. Cruikshank. 2. Pickwick Papers (2 vols) - Aquarelles by Felix O.G. Darley and Frederick Barnard. 3. Oliver Twist - Aquarelle by Felix O.G. Darley. 4. Nicolas Nickleby (2 vols) - Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). 5. Old Curiosity Shop - Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). 6. Barnaby Rudge (2 vols) - Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). 7. American Notes - Edwin Roffe. 8. Martin Chuzzlewit (2 vols) - Frederick Barnard and Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). 9. Dombey and Son (2 vols) - Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). 10. David Copperfield (2 vols) - Frederick Barnard and Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). 11. Bleak House (2 vols) - Frederick Barnard and Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). 12. A Child's History of England - Edward Stoddard. 13. Little Dorrit (2 vols) - Felix O.C. Darley and Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). 14. a Tale of Two Cities - Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). 15. The Uncommercial Traveller - Edwin Roffe. 16. Great Expectations - Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). 17. Our Mutual Friend (2 vols) - Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). 18. The Mystery of Edwin Drood - Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). 19. Christmas Books - Kyd (Joseph Clayton Clarke). 20. Christmas Stories - J.C. Armytage. 21. Forster's Life of Dickens (2 vols) - Leslie Ward and (Unidentified).

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