HANDSOME 30-VOLUME SET OF DICKENS’ WORKS
DICKENS, Charles. Works. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874-76. Thirty volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter tan calf, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut.
Illustrated edition with hundreds of plates, beautifully bound by Sotheran.
“Dickens was the last of the great 18th-century novelists and the first of the great symbolic novelists, and in the crushing equilibrium between these two forces dwells the real strength of his art” (Ackroyd, 1081). This edition includes all of Dickens’ major works—including The Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and the Christmas books, chief among them A Christmas Carol.
Scattered light foxing; calf-gilt binding fine. A beautiful set.