20 Volumes of Charles Dickens and 8 Volumes of William Shakespeare in a boxed set
a) Charles Dickens, Special Authorised Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens in Twenty Volumes, London, Paris, New York and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited, undated but circa early 20th century
Bound in faux, brown half leather over brown buckram boards with gilt text and decoration to the spines and firmly bound, brown cloth boards (each)
8.3 x 5.5 in (21.3 x 14 cm) (each)
Volume 1: Charles Dickens, The Adventures of Oliver Twist
x, 330 pp. including 24 full-page illustrations from original drawings by George Cruikshank
Volume 2: Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
x, 666 pp. including 39 full-page illustrations from original drawings by Phiz
Volume 3: Charles Dickens, The Posthumous Papers of The Pickwick Club
ix, 640 pp. including 43 full-page illustrations from original drawings by Seymour and Phiz
Volume 5: Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
460 pp. including 75 illustrations from original drawings by George Cattermole and H K Browne
Volume 6: Charles Dickens, American Notes, Pictures from Italy, and a Child’s History of England
658 pp. including 16 full-page illustrations from original drawings by Marcus Stone, R.A.
Volume 7: Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
vii, 676 pp. including 40 full-page illustrations from original drawings by Phiz
Volume 8: Charles Dickens, Christmas Books and Hard Times
566 pp. including 68 illustrations from original drawings by Landseer, Malcise, Stanfield Leech, Doyle, F. Walker, etc
Volume 9: Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
x, 704 pp. including 40 full-page illustrations from original drawings by Phiz
Volume 10: Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield
xii, 695 pp. including 40 full-page illustrations from original drawings by Phiz
Volume 11: Charles Dickens, Bleak House
xi, 705 pp. including 40 full-page illustrations from original drawings by Phiz
Volume 12: Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
vi, 680 pp. including 40 full-page illustrations from original drawings by Phiz
Volume 13: Charles Dickens, Christmas Stories from “Household Words” and “All the Year Round” and Other Stories
637 pp. including 34 full-page illustrations from original drawings by Dalziel, Charles Green, Mahony Phiz, Cattermole, etc,
Volume 14: Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
284 pp. including 16 full-page illustrations from original drawings by Phiz
Volume 15: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations and The Uncommercial Traveller
639 pp. including 16 full-page illustrations from original drawings by Marcus Stone and J G Pinwell
Volume 16: Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
683 pp. including 40 full-page illustrations from original drawings by Marcus Stone, R.A.
Volume 18: Charles Dickens, Edwin Drood and Reprinted Pieces
413 pp. including 16 full-page illustrations from original drawings by Luke Fildes and F Walker
Volume 19: Charles Dickens, Collected Papers
342 pp. including 16 illustrations by Phiz, 3 by George Cruikshank and a Portrait
Volume 20: Charles Dickens, Forster’s Life of Dickens
349 pp. including 29 illustrations
b) Talfourd Blair, The Illustrated Pocket Shakespeare, complete with glossary, carefully edited and compared with the best texts by J Talfourd Blair by Shakespeare, Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, 1899
Pocket sizes green hardbacks with gilt lettering to the spine (each)
3.6 x 2.6 in (9.2 x 6.8 cm) (each)
Volume 1: pp. 516 including 7 black and white illustrations
Volume 2: pp. 534 including 6 black and white illustrations
Volume 3: pp. 482 including 5 black and white illustrations
Volume 4: pp. 496 including 5 black and white illustrations
Volume 5: pp. 490 including 4 black and white illustrations
Volume 6: pp. 507 including 5 black and white illustrations
Volume 7: pp. 499 including 4 black and white illustrations
Volume 8: pp. 523 including 5 black and white illustrations
All volumes are housed in an original customised box with gilt decoration
(Set of two)
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