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The Works.
by DICKENS, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall Ltd,, 1906. An appealing library set in the publisher's deluxe binding. This edition features illustrations from a wide range of artists commissioned by Chapman and Hall for their popular 1870s Household Edition. The prolific Brothers Dalziel produced the wood engravings after drawings from 11 different illustrators, including Phiz and Luke Fildes. Fildes worked on Edwin Drood in 1870, making him the last artist to collaborate with Dickens himself. 21 volumes, octavo (195 x 133 mm). Publisher's deluxe half calf, spine lettered and decorated with floral design in gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. Frontispiece to each volume, numerous illustrations. Later 20th-century pencil ownership inscription to first blank of Martin Chuzzlewit. Spines uniformly faded, gilt bright, occasional spots of skinning, light rubbing to edges, contents foxed. A very good set.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 170186
- Title
- The Works.
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Chapman and Hall Ltd,
- Date Published
- 1906
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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