1902-6 The Biographical Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens

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Fine Binding, Illustrated, Leather Binding

Complete in nineteen volumes.

The biographical edition of the works of Charles Dickens.

In a beautiful half calf binding.

A collection of the works of Charles Dickens.

Dickens is of course one of the most famous novelists who has ever lived, his books being read worldwide by old and young. His novels often showed a grittier side to Victorian London, being associated with the dark and grimy city in novels like 'Oliver Twist', with the term 'Dickensian' being used to describe anything like that.

Volume I, 'Sketches By Boz', illustrated with forty illustrations by George Cruikshank.

Volume II, 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club', illustrated with forty-three illustrations by Robert Seymour and Phiz. 

Volume III, 'The Adventures of Olive Twist', illustrated with twenty-four illustrations by George Cruikshank. 

Volume IV, 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby', illustrated with thirty-nine illustrations by Phiz.

Volume V, 'The Old Curiosity Shop', illustrated with seventy-five illustrations by George Cattermole and Phiz.

Volume VI, 'Barnaby Rudge, a Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty', illustrated with seventy-six illustrations by George Cattermole and Phiz.

Volume VII, 'The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit', illustrated with forty illustrations by Phiz. 

Volume VIII, 'American Notes', 'Pictures From Italy', and 'A Child's History of England', illustrated with sixteen illustrations by Marcus Stone.

Volume IX, 'Christmas Books' and 'Hard Times', illustrated with sixty-eight illustrations by various illustrators, including John Leech.

Volume X, 'Dombey and Son', illustrated with forty illustrations by Phiz.

Volume XI, 'The Personal History of David Copperfield', illustrated with forty illustrations by Phiz.

Volume XII, 'Bleak House', illustrated with forty illustrations by Phiz.

Volume XIII, 'Little Dorrit', illustrated with forty illustrations by Phiz. 

Volume XIV, 'Christmas Stories and Other Stories', illustrated with thirty-four illustrations by various illustrators, including Phiz.

Volume XV, 'A Tale of Two Cities', illustrated with sixteen illustrations by Phiz.

Volume XVI, 'Great Expectations' and 'The Uncommercial Traveller', illustrated with sixteen illustrations by Marcus Stone and J. G. Pinwell.

Volume XVII, 'Our Mutual Friend', illustrated with forty illustrations by Marcus Stone.

Volume XVIII, 'Edwin Drood' and 'Reprinted Pieces', illustrated with sixteen illustrations by Luke Fildes and F. Walker.

Volume XIX, 'Collected Papers', dated 1906, illustrated with sixteen illustrations by Phiz, and three by George Cruikshank.

Collated, complete.