DICKENS, Charles; John Forster.
The Works of Charles Dickens and The Life of Charles Dickens.
The Works of Charles Dickens; finely bound in full crushed levant morocco with John Forster's Life of Charles Dickens
London: Chapman and Hall and Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1873-1876.
$12,000.00
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Item Number: RRB-143537
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Finely bound set of the works of Charles Dickens, uniformly bound with John Forster's definitive biography of Dickens. Octavo, 30 volumes bound in full crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with numerous etched plates after H.K. Browne, George Cattermole, George Cruikshank, Marcus Stone and others including frontispieces and engraved vignette titles. In near fine condition. A very nice set.
English writer and social critic Charles Dickens created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius.
The Works of Charles Dickens and The Life of Charles Dickens.
$12,000.00
In Stock