Thirty-four volumes. Illustrated throughout. 8vo. Half red morocco with red cloth covered boards by Bayntun, spines with five single raised bands outlined in gilt, second and third panels lettered in gilt on black and green morocco labels, the rest elaborately decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges in gilt. London, Chapman & Hall, Ld.; New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897.
A handsome set of the Gadshill edition, generally considered one of the best editions of the collected works of Charles Dickens, “printed from the edition that was carefully corrected by the author in 1867 and 1868” and including H. K. Browne and George Cruikshank’s beloved illustrations.
