Complete 20 Vol Set Dickens' Works Edition De Luxe 40/1000 c1903 Nottingham Soc

Item Details:

• Titles Included:
  • Dombey and Son Vol. I
  • Dombey and Son Vol. II & Oliver Twist
  • Barnaby Rudge
  • Little Dorrit Vol. I
  • Little Dorrit Vol. II, Christmas Books, & No Thoroughfare
  • Our Mutual Friend Vol. I
  • Our Mutual Friend Vol. II, Hard Times, & Pictures from Italy
  • The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit Vol. I
  • The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit Vol. II, Tale of Two Cities, & Mugby Junction
  • Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Vol. I
  • Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Vol. II & Sketches by Boz
  • The Old Curiosity Shop & Lazy Two Apprentices
  • Bleak House Vol. I
  • Bleak House Vol. II & Great Expectation
  • Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Vol. I
  • Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club Vol. II & Christmas Stories
  • A Child's History of England & American Notes
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield Vol. I
  • The Personal History of David Copperfield Vol. II, Edwin Drood, & Master Humphrey's Clock
  • The Uncommercial Traveler & Reprinted Pieces
• Author: Charles Dickens
• Publisher: The Nottingham Society
  
• Copyright: Circa 1903
  
• Edition: Edition de Luxe, Set 40 of 1000, Vols 1-20
  

Condition:

• Books are in acceptable to good condition
• Covers have varying degrees of minor damage: scuffing, soiling, shelf-wear, sunning, fraying and stickers that have scuffing and chipping
  • Some books have small stains on covers
• Text blocks have gilded tops that have some tarnishing and scratching
  • Text block also has some soiling and staining
  • Books have deckled pages
• Some pastedowns and free-endpapers have ink or pencil script and some staining
  • Vol. XVIII has heavy discoloration from paste ephemera
  • Some books also have wrinkling and warping
• Pages are slightly yellowed, with occasional pencil scripts and minor stains
  • Some books have warped pages 
  • Pages are otherwise bright, clean, intact, and legible
• Bindings are intact and sturdy
  • Some books have occasional exposed mull in-between page groups
• Vol. I has included newspaper clipping ephemera