DICKENS. CHARLES. The Works. London and New York: The Caxton Society n.d. 60 vols., 8vo, 265 x 187mm. (10 7/16 x 7 3/8in.), red levant morocco, covers with single gilt fillet border incoprating stylized leaf corner ornaments around a large gilt arabesque of gilt flowers and ornament and an onlaid green morocco quatrefoil; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, an ornament panel with onlaid green morocco flower in the rest; turn-ins gilt, green morocco doublures gilt with red and purple morocco onlaid flowers, green watered silk free endpages, g.e., quire SS (4 leaves) in vol. 34 bound upside down. LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF FIFTEEN SETS, the "Star Copy" of the "Extra Illustrated Edition of the Chapman & Hall Large Paper Dickens", title-pages printed in red and black on japan paper, numerous engravings on india paper mounted, from the original blocks, numerous pen-and-ink and wash drawings of characters from the novels by Kyd and H.C. Green. Particularly fine. (60)

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DICKENS. CHARLES. The Works. London and New York: The Caxton Society n.d. 60 vols., 8vo, 265 x 187mm. (10 7/16 x 7 3/8in.), red levant morocco, covers with single gilt fillet border incoprating stylized leaf corner ornaments around a large gilt arabesque of gilt flowers and ornament and an onlaid green morocco quatrefoil; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt lettered in two compartments, an ornament panel with onlaid green morocco flower in the rest; turn-ins gilt, green morocco doublures gilt with red and purple morocco onlaid flowers, green watered silk free endpages, g.e., quire SS (4 leaves) in vol. 34 bound upside down. LIMITED EDITION, ONE OF FIFTEEN SETS, the "Star Copy" of the "Extra Illustrated Edition of the Chapman & Hall Large Paper Dickens", title-pages printed in red and black on japan paper, numerous engravings on india paper mounted, from the original blocks, numerous pen-and-ink and wash drawings of characters from the novels by Kyd and H.C. Green. Particularly fine. (60)