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Title: The Writings of Charles Dickens with Critical and Bibliographical Introductions and Notes by Edwin Percy Whipple and Others Author: Dickens, Charles Place: Boston and New York Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Date: [1894-1900] Description: 32 volumes. Profusely illustrated from hundreds of steel-engraved plates, including frontispieces with tissue-guards; portraits and engravings from the original designs by Browne, Cruickshank, Leech and others. 8vo. Orange cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt, top edges gilt. "Standard Library Edition." Contains all the great and important works by Charles Dickens lavishly illustrated with steel engravings from the original editions. Includes: A Tale of Two Cities, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Edwin Drood, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, A Christmas Carol and other Christmas Stories, etc., also miscellaneous writings, letters, memoirs, plays, poems, and ends with The Dickens Dictionary: A Key to the Plot and Characters in the Tales of Dickens…by Gilbert A. Pierce (Revised Edition, 1900). Lot Amendments Condition: Spines faded, some leaning, other light wear; occasional tender hinges; Volume I with four dark spots to front free endpaper and splitting to upper portion of first two leaves; leaf with pp. 197-8 in Volume XIV loosely laid in; else a very good or better set. Item number: 167877