The Works of Charles Dickens – Complete Edition in Twenty Volumes (Bound as 17 Books)

An exquisite, entirely complete Edwardian-era collection of Charles Dickens’s works, published by the legendary Chapman & Hall alongside Henry Frowde (Oxford University Press).

Printed circa 1910 by the famed Horace Hart at the University Press, Oxford, this highly collectible set presents the "Complete Edition in Twenty Volumes" beautifully consolidated into 17 physical hardcover books. It contains all of Dickens's major novels, shorter stories, and Christmas pieces.

Item Specifications:

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Chapman & Hall, Limited; and Henry Frowde (Oxford University Press / American Branch)

Printer: Horace Hart, University Press, Oxford

Date of Publication: Circa 1908–1912 (Undated as issued)

Country of Origin / Manufacture: United Kingdom (London / Oxford)

Binding: Original uniform royal blue textured cloth boards with elegant blind-stamped Art Deco geometric central medallions on the front covers. Spines feature magnificent, bright gold gilt vertical lines and typography.

Endpapers: Striking original monochrome cream-and-grey illustrated endpapers featuring a Charles Dickens portrait medallion and character collage.

Illustrators: Profusely illustrated throughout with hundreds of classic original Victorian plates by Cruikshank, "Phiz" (Hablot Knight Browne), Cattermole, Marcus Stone, and others.

Included Volumes (Complete 20 Works in 17 Books):

Includes Little Dorrit, Bleak House, Dombey and Son, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist / The Uncommercial Traveller, Our Mutual Friend, Christmas Books, Christmas Stories, Master Humphrey's Clock / Edwin Drood, and all other compiled pieces completing the 20-volume layout.