"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C. S. Lewis
Works of Charles Dickens: Pickwick Papers, The Old Curiosity Shop, Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, etc. The London Edition.
London: Caxton Publishing Co. Ltd., No date [1907]. [Literature] Complete in 30 volumes, IN THE RARE DUST-JACKETS. Octavo (21 x 13 x 100cm). Illustrated with colour plates. Bound in the publisher's green cloth hardbacks with art nouveau styling in light green and gilt, designed by by Talwin Morris, with twenty-nine ORIGINAL JACKETS (lacking vol.1 jacket, which has plain brown paper wrapper to unify the look). Books are clean and fresh, jackets are fragile, somewhat brittle, some with repairs, several stabilised/backed with brown paper. A truly remarkable survival. At the time of writing we can find no other sets in jacket for sale. Dust-jackets are not mentioned in the bibliography. Item #75474
SPENCER, Andrew, 'Charles Dickens: A Guide to the Collected Editions' (Chesney Wold 2021), pp.82-84.
Price: £1,750.00
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