The Complete Works of Charles Dickens with Steel Photogravure Frontispiece and Illustrations from Original Designs By F. Barnard and Others: Old Curiosity Shop and Reprinted Pieces Hardcover -

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: The Bibliophilist Society Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some light shelf wear, corners are gently bumped and rubbed, overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Extremely tight binding. Wonderfully well-preserved! Very very rare and hard-to-find! Half-Leather (spine and corners) with green marbled boards and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt upper outer page edges as well. Green marbled endpapers. Extremely scarce. No publishers date (looks to be late 19th century). One of sixteen very rare volumes. Exceptionally well-cared for. This volume contains 671 unmarked and uncreased historical pages nicely enhanced by historic black and white illustrations. Beautifully done. "In April, 1840, I issued the first number of a new weekly publication, price threepence, called Master Humphrey's Clock. It was intended to consist, for the most part, of detached papers, but was to include one continuous story, to be resumed, from time to time, with such indefinite intervals between each period of resumption as might best accord with the exigencies and capabilities of the proposed Miscellany...." ---- from the Preface.. Library Edition . Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.