Author: Charles Dickens
Title: The Works of Charles Dickens (Standard Edition)
Description: London, The Gresham Publishing Company Limited , 1901. Cloth. A handsome complete twenty-volume set containing the Standard Edition of this Charles Dickens collection, with illustrations. The publisher's Standard Edition of these works. Complete in twenty volumes. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original blue cloth.An attractive collection of works from the widely regarded and beloved Victorian writer, Charles Dickens, including his most famous titles and contributions to periodicals, as well as biographical works concerning his life and work from George Gissing and J. A. Nicklin. Each volume is illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and eight monochrome plates, with the exception of Volume XX, which has twelve plates. Collated, complete. Undated, dated from copies held institutionally. The entirety of this set comprises the following:Volume I - Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Everyday Life and Everyday People and Other Early Papers. Illustrated by Max Cowper. Volume II - The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Illustrated by William Rainey.Volume III - The Adventures of Oliver Twist and A Child's History of England. Illustrated by W. S. Stacey.Volume IV - The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Illustrated by Claude A. Shepperson. Volume V - The Old Curiosity Shop and Master Humphrey's Clock. Illustrated by H. M. Brock.Volume VI - Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. Illustrated by Max Cowper. Volume VII - The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Illustrated by J. H. F. Bacon and Fred Pegram. Volume VIII - Dombey and Son. Illustrated by J. H. F.  Bacon.Volume IX - The Personal History of David Copperfield. Illustrated by William Rainey. Volume X - Christmas Books and Reprinted Pieces. Illustrated by C. A. Shepperson. Volume XI - Bleak House. Illustrated by H. M. Brock.Volume XII - Little Dorrit. Illustrated by J. H. F. Bacon. Volume XIII - A Tale of Two Cities and The Uncommercial Traveller. Illustrated by Max Cowper. Volume XIV - Great Expectations and Other Stories. Illustrated by H. M. Brock. Volume XV - Our Mutual Friend. Illustrated by William Rainey. Volume XVI - The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Hard Times. Illustrated by C. A. Shepperson and W. S. Stacey.Volume XVII - Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round". Illustrated by H. R. Millar. Volume XVIII - American Notes Pictures from Italy and Miscellaneous Papers. Illustrated by H. M. Brock and E. H. Fitchew. Volume XIX - Miscellaneous Contributions to "Household Words" "All the Year Round" &c. Illustrated by A. Talbot Smith. Volume XX - Charles Dickens by George Gissing; Dickens-Land by J. A. Nicklin and A Dictionary of Characters &c. in the Novels and Stories. Illustrated by E. W. Haslehust and F. G. Kitton. Uniformly bound in the original blue cloth. Externally, very smart, with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. With the occasional marks to the boards, most notable to Vol XIII. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine . Ill.: Max Cowper; William Rainey; et al. Near Fine .

Keywords: Charles Dickens Illustrated English Literature Illustrated Max Cowper; William Rainey; et al.


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