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NONESUCH PRESS -- DICKENS, Charles. [Works,] edited by Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Walter Dexter and Thomas Hatton, London: Nonesuch Press, 1937-38.
24 volumes including original steel-engraved plate in portfolio, large 8°, engraved and wood-engraved plates and illustrations, original vari-coloured cloth, spines with black morocco labels lettered in gilt, t.e.g., plate portfolio in morocco-backed slipcase.
LIMITED TO 877 COPIES. "The steel plate opposite entitled "The Emigrants" is one of the steel plates engraved by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne) himself for David Copperfield. It has been preserved ever since the artist's death in the strong room at the disposal of the firm of Chapman & Hall, Limited, by whom its authenticity is hereby guaranteed. For Chapman & Hall, Ltd, Arthur Waugh, Chairman & Managing Director" (typed note, signed, in portfolio volume). Dreyfus 108.
With 2 copies of Arthur Waugh and Thomas Hatton's Retrospectus and Prospectus. The Nonesuch Dickens (London, 1937). (26)
24 volumes including original steel-engraved plate in portfolio, large 8°, engraved and wood-engraved plates and illustrations, original vari-coloured cloth, spines with black morocco labels lettered in gilt, t.e.g., plate portfolio in morocco-backed slipcase.
LIMITED TO 877 COPIES. "The steel plate opposite entitled "The Emigrants" is one of the steel plates engraved by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne) himself for David Copperfield. It has been preserved ever since the artist's death in the strong room at the disposal of the firm of Chapman & Hall, Limited, by whom its authenticity is hereby guaranteed. For Chapman & Hall, Ltd, Arthur Waugh, Chairman & Managing Director" (typed note, signed, in portfolio volume). Dreyfus 108.
With 2 copies of Arthur Waugh and Thomas Hatton's Retrospectus and Prospectus. The Nonesuch Dickens (London, 1937). (26)