Works of Charles Dickens.

DICKENS, Charles and John Forster.

$6,000.00

Item Number: 131992

London:, 1837-1874.

Finely bound collection of a selection of Dickens’ works as well as Foster’s acclaimed biography. Octavo, 16 volumes uniformly bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, red and green contrasting morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. The collection is comprised of: a first edition of Pictures from Italy [London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846]; First edition in book form of Hard Times [London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854]; First edition in book form of the Uncommercial Traveller [London: Chapman and Hall, 1861]; Third edition of Sketches by Boz [2 vol. London: John Macrone, 1837; Second Series of Sketches by Boz [London: John Macrone, 1937]; Second edition of American Notes [2 vol. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842]; Later printing of A Child’s History of England [3 vol. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1854-59]; Eighth edition of Sketches of Young Ladies [London: Chapman & Hall, 1838]; Extract from The Cornhill Magazine [Vol. IX, No. 50, February, 1864]; later printing of John Foster’s The Life of Charles Dickens [London: Chapman and Hall, 1873-74]. In very good condition. At attractive binding.

English writer and social critic Charles Dickens created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius.