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[The Works of...]. Sketches by Boz. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. The Adventures of Oliver Twist. [with] A Tale of Two Cities. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. The Old Curiosity Shop. Barnaby Rudge. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Christmas Books [with] Hard Times. Christmas Stories. Dombey and Son. The Personal History of David Copperfield. Bleak House. Little Dorrit. Great Expectations. [with] The Uncommercial Traveller. Our Mutual Friend. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. [with] Reprinted Pieces. American Notes [with] Pictures from Italy [and] A Child's History of England. [Plus] FORSTER, John. The Life of Charles Dickens. PIERCE, Gilbert A. with... WHEELER William A. The Dickens Dictionary
by DICKENS, Charles
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- Hardcover
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, [c.1890].. Nineteen volumes. 8vo. Uniformly bound in contemporary red half morocco over green cloth boards, spines with raised bands, gilt lettered direct to two panels, the other compartments with a gilt flower device, marbled endpapers. Numerous plates and illustrations in the text throughout by the likes of Cruikshank, Phiz etc., as per earlier editions. Uneven fading and marking to spines plus some general rubbing. An undated edition, likely stereotyped from previous editions, the bindings would appear to be from the either the 1880s and 1890s. Forster's Life and Pierce's Dictionary were both first published in 1872.
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- Bow Windows Bookshop
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- Title
- [The Works of...]. Sketches by Boz. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. The Adventures of Oliver Twist. [with] A Tale of Two Cities. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. The Old Curiosity Shop. Barnaby Rudge. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. Christmas Books [with] Hard Times. Christmas Stories. Dombey and Son. The Personal History of David Copperfield. Bleak House. Little Dorrit. Great Expectations. [with] The Uncommercial Traveller. Our Mutual Friend. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. [with] Reprinted Pieces. American Notes [with] Pictures from Italy [and] A Child's History of England. [Plus] FORSTER, John. The Life of Charles Dickens. PIERCE, Gilbert A. with... WHEELER William A. The Dickens Dictionary
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Chapman and Hall
- Date Published
- [c.1890].
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- Literature Sets
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Bow Windows Bookshop
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Lewes, East Sussex
About Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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