The Works of Charles Dickens. The National Edition.
by DICKENS, Charles
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About This Item
London.: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1906 - 1908.. Full contemporary blue crushed morocco, banded spines with gilt titles in six compartments, turn-ins with decorative gilt borders, marbled endpapers, blue silk placemarkers, t.e.g.. 80 vols. 8vo. (235 x 168 mm).. Each vol. with leaf with limitation verso, half-title and printed title in red and black with publisher's vignette and Arguably the best edition of Dickens' works, with the definitive text, large type and facsimiles of title pages and original covers, etc. Limited to 750 copies.This a deluxe extra-illustrated set with before-letters proof states of most of the wood-engraved plates, together with additional hors-texte illustrations, many hand-coloured.This set also includes an original ALS from Dickens to George Dolby, his manager, dated the first of July 1866, in which Dickens tries to fix a date for the two to meet. A truly fine set.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sims Reed Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21430
- Title
- The Works of Charles Dickens. The National Edition.
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Full contemporary blue crushed morocco, banded spines with gilt titles in six compartments, turn-ins with decorative gilt border
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London.
- Date Published
- 1906 - 1908.
- Size
- 80 vols. 8vo. (235 x 168 mm).
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...