30 vols. Engraved plates on mounted India paper from the original etchings and engravings by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz") and other illustrators, including frontispieces for each title from the originals; all with tissue-guards. 10x7¼, full blue-green morocco, ruled & stamped in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, inner gilt dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers. No. 994 of 1000 sets. "Édition de Luxe."
Includes: Pickwick Papers (2 vols.), Barnaby Rudge (2 vols.), Sketches of Boz, Oliver Twist, Old Curiosity Shop (2 vols.), David Copperfield (2 vols.), A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Little Dorrit (2 vols.), Christmas Stories and Uncommercial Traveller (2 vols.), Martin Chuzzlewit (2 vols.), American Notes and Pictures from Italy, Christmas Books, A Child's History of England, Nicholas Nickleby (2 vols.), Dombsey and Son (2 vols.), Bleak House (2 vols.), Our Mutual Friend (2 vols.), Master Humphrey's Clock, Etc. and Edwin Drood.
Condition:
Joints and extremities rubbed, spines slightly faded, top edges a bit dusty, some soiling; couple volumes with a board detached, 1 with rear board crudely repaired, 4 with a joint splitting, 2 with a joint split; internally about fine with an occasional folded tissue-guard and minor aging, Volume XI with plate detached, else a very good to near fine set, sold as is.