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Dickens, Charles. THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES DICKENS, WITH CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTIONS, AND NOTES BY EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE AND OTHERS. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1894. 32 volumes complete in ¾ gilt-ruled red levant morocco & marbled boards, spines tooled & lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. #78 of 500 of Large Paper Edition. Includes bank check signed by Charles Dickens and dated October 3, 1864 -- mounted at front of Volume I.
I-II. The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club.--III. Sketches by Boz.--IV. The adventures of Oliver Twist.--V-VI. Life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.--VII. The old curiosity shop.--VIII-IX. Barnaby Rudge, Master Humphrey's clock, and The mystery of Edwin Drood.--X-XI.--The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, and American notes.--XII-XIII. Dombey and son.--XIV-XV.The personal history of David Copperfield.--XVI-XVII. Bleak house.--XVIII-XIX. Little Dorrit.--XX. A tale of two cities.--XXI. Great expectations.--XXII-XXIII. Our mutual friend.--XXIV-XXV. Christmas books, Tales and sketches.--XXVI. Hard times, and other stories.--XXVII. The uncommercial traveller, and Pictures from Italy.--XXVIII. Plays, poems, and miscellanies--XXIX. A child's history of England.--XXX-XXXI. Life, letters, and speeches of Charles Dickens; with biographical sketches of the principal illustrators of Dicken's works.--XXXII. Plus eight other volumes in different fine bindings: Life of Dickens by Forster, 1872, 3 Volumes, 9th printing; Dickens and His Friends by Shore, 1909; Letters of Charles Dickens, 1880-1882, 3 Volumes; and Life, Writing, Personality by Kitton, 1908. |
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