Charles Dickens; Richard Garnett, ed. WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS. 32 vols. (complete). London: Merrill & Baker, 1900. Edition des Amateurs, no. 103 of 200 numbered and registered copies. Three-quarter blue morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt decoration on upper board, spine with raised bands and gilt lettering and floral designs, with marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. 8vo. All with frontispiece (most hand-colored) and numerous additional plates (some on tissue, double-page, or hand-colored) with captioned tissue guards, plus in-text illustrations. Includes: David Copperfield (2 vols.), Bleak House (2 vols.), Pickwick Papers (2 vols.), Nicholas Nickleby (2 vols.), Oliver Twist (1 vol.), A Tale of Two Cities (1 vol.), Great Expectations (1 vol.), Old Curiosity Shop (also with Reprinted Pieces) (2 vols.), Our Mutual Friend (2 vols.), The Uncommercial Traveler (1 vol.), Little Dorrit (2 vols.), Barnaby Rudge (2 vols.), A Child's History of England (1 vol.), Edwin Drood (The Mystery of) (1 vol.), American Notes with Pictures from Italy (1 vol.), Sketches by Boz (1 vol.), Martin Chuzzlewit (2 vols.), Dombey and Son (2 vols.), Christmas Stories (1 vol.), Christmas Books (1 vol.), and The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (2 vols.).

9 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. each

Boards with edgewear, occasional scuffing and marks, corners rubbed and bumped, some boards with areas of sunning or fading; spines lightly to heavily browned with occasional area of rubbing and wear at ends, some joints with light creasing, a couple with minor cracking starting, Great Expectations with upper board unfortunately detached and lost and with small loss to corner of exposed free endpaper; interiors with expected light toning (heaviest at edges) and offsetting from plates, and with rare crease, area of grime, edge tear or chip not impacting text, or spot of foxing, one frontispiece with faint spotting on recto; pages quite pristine with many leaves still unopened at fore-edge. A very good, scarce, and beautifully bound set.