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34 volumes. Introduction, General Essay and Notes by Andrew Lang. With plates from the original engraved & etched illustrations throughout. 20x13.5 cm. (7¾x5½"), half tan calf & marbled boards, spines decoratively tooled in gilt, raised bands, morocco lettering pieces, marbled endpapers; bound by Morell for Charles E. Lauriat Co., Boston. The "Gadshill Edition."

Handsome set of Dickens, comprising the   Pickwick Papers (2 vols.); Oliver Twist; Nicholas Nickleby (2 vols.); Martin Chuzzlewit (2 vols.); Dombey and Son (2 vols.); Old Curiosity Shop (2 vols.); Barnaby Rudge (2 vols.); David Copperfield (2 vols.); Bleak House (2 vols.); Christmas Books; Little Dorrit (2 vols., first with related newspaper clipped on tipped-in paper on front preliminary leaf); A Tale of Two Cities; Great Expectations; Our Mutual Friend (2 vols.); Hard Times, etc.; Sketches of Boz (2 vols.); American Notes. Pictures from Italy; Uncommon Traveller; A Child's History of England; Christmas Stories (2 vols.); Edwin Drood. Master Humphrey's Clock; and Reprinted Pieces. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster, sometimes added to the set as Vols. 35 and 36, is not present here - the half title of each volume states complete in 34 volumes.