Works (Signed limited edition in 40 vols.)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1906 - 1908.

With An Autographed Envelope, Signed by Dickens

(Item #1599) Works (Signed limited edition in 40 vols.). Charles Dickens.

Works (Signed limited edition in 40 vols.)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1906 - 1908. First Thus. The National Edition. Limited to 750 sets printed for England and America, this set unnumbered. Forty large octavo volumes. With approximately 1,000 illustrations, with plates by Cruikshank, Browne, Leech, et al. Title-pages printed in red and black. With many reproductions or the original parts wrappers on colored paper.

Volume I with an envelope signed by Dickens and an ALS by John Foster, Dickens' biographer. On the first blank of volume I is a mounted small envelope addressed by Dickens to Edward Chapman (his publisher), and signed by Dickens on the lower left corner. Facing that page is a mounted autograph letter signed by John Foster (Dickens' friend and biographer) addressed to George Cattermole, the artist who illustrated The Old Curiosity Shop. Foster letter is on stationery and is dated 21 September, 1860. Two sixteenmo pages on one octavo sheet, folded.

Set is uniformly bound by Riviere & Son in half brown levant morocco over brown cloth. Morocco double ruled in gilt. Spines lettered in gilt and compartments triple-ruled in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Spines slightly sunned and some occasional minor rubbing and shelfwear. Overall a very attractive and near fine set.
(Item #1599)

Works (Signed limited edition in 40 vols.)
Works (Signed limited edition in 40 vols.)
Works (Signed limited edition in 40 vols.)
Works (Signed limited edition in 40 vols.)
Works (Signed limited edition in 40 vols.)
Works (Signed limited edition in 40 vols.)
Works (Signed limited edition in 40 vols.)
Works (Signed limited edition in 40 vols.)
Works (Signed limited edition in 40 vols.)
Works (Signed limited edition in 40 vols.)