The Works - (20 Volumes) Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Little Dorrit, Bleak House Etc

London: Macmillan & Co. Limited, 1929. Reprint. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jackets. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cruikshank, George Etc. Type: Z Dickens - the works - 20 volumes published by Macmillan in the late 1920's and 1930's in an attractive uniform olive cloth with gilt embossed titles to the spine. Twelve of the volumes have a Hornsey County School prize bookplate to the front end paper and their school circular emblem embossed to the front board in gilt. The other 8 do not but are entirely uniform with this edition - all have the same gilt embossed tooling to the spines. Many of the volumes are reprints of the Chapman and Hall first editions. The books remain clean and tight with the occasional bump to the odd corner and to head and tail of spines and some slight occasional rubbing to the boards. A few of the volumes are slightly faded to the spine - none significantly so. The volumes are. Little Dorrit 1929. Bleak House 1928 with gift inscription to the front end paper. Some page corners a little turned. Sketches by Boz 1926. The Pickwick Papers 1931 - neat gift ink inscription to the front end paper. Our Mutual friend 1926. The Old Curiosity Shop and Master Humphrey's Clock 1927. American notes and pictures from Italy 1925. The Adventures of Oliver Twist 1930 - slight insect damage - thinning to corner of front end paper. Stories from the Christmas Numbers of 'household worlds' and 'all they year round' 1852-1867 Macmillan 1927 (2nd thus) Martin Chuzzlewit 1931 A tale of two cities 1932. Christmas books 1928. David Copperfield 1930. Some light soiling to the fore-edge and light rubbing to the head of the spine. The Uncommercial Traveller and A child's history of England 1929. Dombey and Son 1927. Gift inscription on card pasted on to front end paper. Great Expectations and Hard Times 1930. The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1925. Barnaby Rudge 1930. Small light circular stain mark to fore-edge. Reprinted Pieces and the lazy tour of two idle apprentices 1925. Life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby 1930. A very attractive set - I do not know if this is complete or not - though I found one record in the British libraries record which suggests that there may have been an additional volume. A very attractive, tight clean well preserved set.