The Writings of Charles Dickens. With critical and bibliographical introductions and notes by Edwin Percy Whipple and others. [complete in 32 volumes]

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1894], 1894. Large-Paper Edition. Hardback. Limited edition: 500 copies printed, no. 89. Very good copies in the original red cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Some light fraying also evident on some spine bands. Spine covers sun-toned. Title-printed spine labels, somewhat edge-worn and tanned. Very light tanning around page margins. This set includes copies with unread and unopened pages. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 0 pages; Description: 32 v. fronts., plates, ports. 21 cm. ""... illustrated with steel portraits and engravings from the original designs by Browne, Cruikshank, Leech, and others."" --title page. Contents: 1-2. The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club. --3. Sketches by Boz. --4. The adventures of Oliver Twist. --5-6. Life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. --7. The old curiosity shop. --8-9. Barnaby Rudge, Master Humphrey's clock, and The mystery of Edwin Drood. --10-11. The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, and American notes. --12-13. Dombey and son. --14-15. The personal history of David Copperfield. --16-17. Bleak house. --18-19. Little Dorrit. --20. A tale of two cities. --21. Great expectations. --22-23. Our mutual friend. --24-25. Christmas books, Tales and sketches. --26. Hard times, and other stories. --27. The uncommercial traveller, and Pictures from Italy. --28. Plays, poems, and miscellanies. --29. A child's history of England; also A holiday romance, and other pieces. --30-31. Life, letters, and speeches of Charles Dickens; with biographical sketches of the principal illustrators of Dicken's works. --32. The Dickens dictionary, a key to the plot and characters in the tales of Charles Dickens, with copious indexes and bibliography; by Gilbert A. Pierce, with additions by William A. Wheeler. New and rev. ed.