DICKENS, Charles. [The Works], edited by Andrew Lang, London: Chapman and Hall & New York: Charles Scribner's, 1897-99, 34 volumes and the 2-volume Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster, 8°, Gadshill edition, with the original illustrations and additional ones by Charles Green, Harry Furniss, Maurice Greiffenhagen and others (light offsetting, very occasional light spotting, marginal dampstaining to a few volumes, but generally good and clean), contemporary crimson half morocco by ZAEHNSDORF for C. Scribner's Sons New York, spines in compartments ruled, lettered and dated in gilt, marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers (a few boards a little rubbed or scuffed, fore-edge to vol. I of The Life slightly damaged). (36)
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DICKENS, Charles. [The Works], edited by Andrew Lang, London: Chapman and Hall & New York: Charles Scribner's, 1897-99, 34 volumes and the 2-volume Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster, 8°, Gadshill edition, with the original illustrations and additional ones by Charles Green, Harry Furniss, Maurice Greiffenhagen and others (light offsetting, very occasional light spotting, marginal dampstaining to a few volumes, but generally good and clean), contemporary crimson half morocco by ZAEHNSDORF for C. Scribner's Sons New York, spines in compartments ruled, lettered and dated in gilt, marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers (a few boards a little rubbed or scuffed, fore-edge to vol. I of The Life slightly damaged). (36)
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This set does not include Miscellaneous Papers, edited by B. W. Matz, published as vols. 35-36, in 1908.
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