DICKENS, CHARLES. The Works. London and New York: Chapman & Hall, n.d. Numerous pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings of characters from the novels by Kyd and H.C. Green, numerous engraved plates. 58 volumes (lacking volumes 27 and 33), red morocco, covers with single gilt fillet border incorporating stylized floral corner ornaments around a large gilt arabesque of flowers and an onlaid green morocco quatrefoil; spines in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two, an ornament panel with onlaid green morocco flower in the rest, g.e., spines slightly faded, minor wear to spines and corners; turn-ins gilt, green morocco doublures gilt with red morocco onlaid flowers, green silk linings, bookplate on front doublure of each volume. (58)

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DICKENS, CHARLES. The Works. London and New York: Chapman & Hall, n.d. Numerous pen-and-ink and watercolor drawings of characters from the novels by Kyd and H.C. Green, numerous engraved plates. 58 volumes (lacking volumes 27 and 33), red morocco, covers with single gilt fillet border incorporating stylized floral corner ornaments around a large gilt arabesque of flowers and an onlaid green morocco quatrefoil; spines in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two, an ornament panel with onlaid green morocco flower in the rest, g.e., spines slightly faded, minor wear to spines and corners; turn-ins gilt, green morocco doublures gilt with red morocco onlaid flowers, green silk linings, bookplate on front doublure of each volume. (58)
Provenance
Nicholas Frederick Brady, bookplate.

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