The Works of Charles Dickens [Illustrated Library Edition] complete in 26 volumes

Hardocover. Condition: Very Good. Early printing of Libary Edition with each volume dated either 1865 or 1866. Complete in 26 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards. Illustrted Libary Edition. This set was reissued between 1861 and 1874 with illustration. Gilt titles with tooling to the spine and six compartments within raised gilt bands. Marbled endpapers, texttblock edges are marbled. Various illustrators including George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), and Marcus Stone. Bookplates from St. Catherine's Hall Library (Cornwell Heights, PA).

Vols. I and II - The Pickwick Papers; Vols. III and IV - Nicholas Nickleby; Vols. V and VI - Martin Chuzzlewit; Vols. VII and VIII - The Old Curiosity Shop; Vols. IX and X - Barnaby Rudge; Vol. XI - Sketches by Boz; Vol. XII - Oliver Twist; Vols. XIII and XIV - Dombey and Son; Vols. XV and XVI - David Copperfield; Vol. XVII - Pictures from Italy. American Notes; Vols. XVIII and XIX - Bleak House; Vols XX and XXI - Little Dorrit; Vol. XXII - Christmas Books; Vol. XXIII - A Tale of Two Cities; Vol. XIV - Great Expectations; and Vols. XV and XVI - Our Mutual Friend.

Wear to the edges, tips, and boards. A few volumes have short tears and/or small chips to the top of the spine. Volumes I and V have detached front boards. Internally clean with no writing observed. Pages are clean with no foxing observed.