The Works of Charles Dickens – 16 volumes of 21-volume set:
These beautifully bound volumes were published by the Oxford University Press and produced by the Franklin Library in 1985 as a special limited edition of 7,500, available exclusively to subscribers to the Oxford Library of Charles Dickens. Bound in scarlet and black leather, with all edges gilt, silk endpapers, and scarlet bookmark in each volume, the books feature three raised spine bands and are richly decorated, each with an individual motif to the front panel symbolic of the contents. One volume only (Nicholas Nickleby) has a previous owner bookplate pasted in; all others are absolutely pristine. The books feel as if never opened, let alone read.
Note that this is the limited 1985 edition of 7500 copies sold to subscribers only. There was another edition, also from the Franklin Library, done in decorative red (without the black), but not nearly as luxuriantly produced.
Titles include:
American Notes/Pictures From Italy
Barnaby Rudge
Bleak House
Christmas Books
Christmas Stories
Martin Chuzzlewit
The Old Curiosity Shop
Dombey and Son
Little Dorrit
Master Humphrey’s Clock/A Child’s History of England
Our Mutual Friend
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Nicholas Nickleby
The Pickwick Papers
Sketches by Boz
The Uncommercial Traveler/Reprinted Pieces
No volumes will be sold individually. They are offered together for $2,000 plus tax. If you give this Dickens library as a wedding (or graduation) present, you can be fairly certain your gift will not be a duplicated!
I do not want to ship, however, so please stop in the store on Friday or Saturday or e-mail me at dogears@netonecom.net. Thank you.
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