The Works of Charles Dickens, in eighteen volumes. The Charles Dickens Edition, uniformly bound in 14 volumes

Dickens, Charles

Verlag: Chapman & Hall, 1870

Beschreibung

8vo, 170 x 118mm, half calf, panelled spines, gilt, red leather lettering-pieces, gilt, ruled & ornamented in blind, greyish green stippled cloth sides, marbled edges. Printed by Virtue & Co. Each volume contains eight illustrations (including frontispiece). Four volumes include more than one work, viz. Barnaby Rudge & Christmas Books, A Tale of Two Cities & American Notes, Great Expectations, Hard Times & Pictures from Italy, Oliver Twist & The Uncommercial Traveller. The total number of individual titles (given occasional internal volume numbers) is therefore nineteen (i.e. not eighteen, as stated on half-titles), but Master Humphrey?s Clock is not present. Seven of the volumes are dated 1870, the others are undated. Dickens himself revised the text of this authoritative edition, adding running titles at the head of the right-hand pages. The facsimile of his autograph (which gives this edition its name) appears below his portrait frontispiece in The Personal History of David Copperfield. The dedication page of the first volume (The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club) states ?This edition of my books is (as The Library Edition was) inscribed to my dear friend John Forster, biographer of Oliver Goldsmith, in grateful remembrance of the many patient hours he devoted to the correction of the proof sheets of the original editions; and in affectionate acknowledgment of his counsel, sympathy, and faithful friendship, during my whole literary life.? Some minor wear. Near very good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 014614

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Works of Charles Dickens, in eighteen ...

Verlag: Chapman & Hall

Erscheinungsdatum: 1870

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: The Charles Dickens edition