Dickens charles

1875 · 885T20 — London: Chapman & Hall c1875. Cloth. Good. 10" by 8". Phiz; A. B. Frost; Gordon Thomson; J. McL. Ralston; J. Mahoney; F. A. Fraser; E. G. Dalziel; C. Green; F. Barnard; L. Fildes. A collection of eighteen volumes of works from noted 19th century author Charles Dickens illustrated throughout. Eighteen volumes of twenty-two. Household edition from Chapman & Hall London. Each volume includes an illustrated frontispiece. A collection of novels from Charles Dickens an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. With illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne or "Phiz" an English artist and illustrator; Arthur Burdett Frost an American illustrator graphic artist and comic writer; Gordon Thomson an English draughtsman and figure artist; John McLaren Ralston a Scottish illustrator and designer; James Mahoney an Irish artist and engraver; Francis Arthur Fraser a prolific Scottish illustrator; Edward G. Dalziel an English illustrator and engraver; Charles Green a British watercolourist and illustrator; Fred Barnard an English illustrator and caricaturist; and Luke Fildes a British painter and illustrator. This set includes: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club with fifty-seven illustrations. American Notes and Pictures from Italy with eighteen illustrations. A Child's History of England with fifteen illustrations. The Adventures of Oliver Twist with twenty-eight illustrations. Great Expectations with thirty illustrations. Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round" with twenty-three illustrations. Little Dorrit with fifty-eight illustrations. The Old Curiosity Shop with thirty-nine illustrations. Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People with thirty-four illustrations. Christmas Books with twenty-eight illustrations. The Uncommercial Traveller with twenty-six illustrations. The Mystery of Edwin Drood Reprinted Pieces and Other Stories with thirty illustrations and two clippings from the Daily Mail newspaper dated 1928. Dombey and Son with sixty-two illustrations. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of "Eighty" with forty-six illustrations. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby with fifty-none illustrations. The Personal History of David Copperfield with sixty-one illustrations. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit with fifty-nine illustrations. Our Mutual Friend with fifty-eight illustrations. Collated complete. In the original green cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. A small split in the cloth to the front joint of David Copperfield. Hinges of Oliver Twist sympathetically reinforced with tape. Front hinge starting but firm to Nicholas Nickleby. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot to the main text and scattered spotting to the first and last few pages. A small tear to page 47 of Oliver Twist where the textblock has been opened harshly. Previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper of Pickwick Papers covering a contemporary ink inscription. Ink stamp to the front pastedown of Pickwick Papers Oliver Twist Little Dorrit David Copperfield and Martin Chuzzlewit. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown of Little Dorrit and David Copperfield and to the rear pastedown of Martin Chuzzlewit. Light age toning to the endpapers. Good Chapman & Hall hardcover