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WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS.
Dickens, Charles
32 Volumes.

- London : Merrill and Baker n.d., circa 1900 - 8vo. - leather, raised bands, gilt-decorated spine and boards; top edge gilt, other edges uncut - variously paginated - Order Nr. 110016 - Price: $ 25,000.00 View Slideshow (requires Flash Player 9)

Limited edition of 25 numbered and registered sets. Editor's Autograph Edition. Edited by Richard Garnett, Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum. Each volume with introduction by the editor. 32 octavo volumes. Illustrated with color frontispieces and black and white plates with descriptive tissue guards. Illustrations included photogravures, etchings, photo-etchings from 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, Danile Maclise, J. Mahoney. F.W. Pailthorpe, Robert Seymour, Stanfield. F. Stone, Marcus Stone and others. Volume I of Pickwick Papers includes facsimile of Dickens's writing in a copy of that work presented to his aunt Mrs. Edward Barrow. The same volume also has an undated letter tipped in from Dickens to John Kenyon. Boards and spines beautifully, decoratively tooled in a floral design, with raised bands on spines. Title and place of publication gilt-stamped on spines.

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