1937 ❧ With a steel plate and proof from Pickwick Papers. [NONESUCH PRESS]. CHARLES DICKENS. 1812-1870. The Works. Edited by Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Arthur. Dexter, and Thomas Hatton. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-1938. 25 volumes (including original steel-plate in cloth folding box), 8vo (256 x 158 mm). Engraved title vignettes and plates, facsimile wrappers from the original parts. Original buckram, printed spine labels, top edges gilt, others uncut. Extremities slightly rubbed and bumped. LIMITED EDITION, number 102 of 877 copies (numbered in the plate volume. The original engraved plate by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), set into a uniform cloth box wtih a letter of authenticity signed by the Deputy Chairman of Chapman & Hall, is titled 'The Last Visit of Heyling to the Old Man' (from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, facing page 223). A History of the Nonesuch Press 180. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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