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UNUSUAL EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED SET DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club... Embellished with Numerous Illustrations Collected by

UNUSUAL EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED SET DICKENS, CHARLES. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club... Embellished with Numerous Illustrations Collected by John Coxall. Extra-illustrated set. 19 volumes including index. 8vo, 1/2 morocco, gilt spines reading "Boz," variously rubbed and faded London, 1910

  • Notes: extra-illustrated with over 1000 engraved plates, original watercolors, and other illustrations. A visual history of the Pickwick papers, the set includes wrappers for the parts in original and facsimile, portraits, various impressions of the frontispiece, title-pages from various editions, images of Dickens's homes, architectural views, various impressions of Seymour and H. K. Browne illustrations, representations from other artists such as Cruikshank, Coveny, Aldin, Reynolds, Frost, Pailthorpe, and others, some printed in color and some hand-colored. Includes seventy-nine original watercolors signed by kyd, including watercolored title-pages lettered "36 original character illustrations to The Pickwick Papers drawn in colours by Kyd."

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