Works of Charles Dickens. New illustrated library edition. [With a preface to each work by Edwin P. Whipple
An American library edition of Dickens's collected works, issued by Hurd & Houghton in 1876 with prefaces by Edwin P. Whipple, reprinting George Cruikshank's etchings for the early sketches. The plates are crowded comic scenes of London life — gin-shop counters, parlour parties, street processions with barrows and top hats — useful for period costume, tavern interiors, and dense figure grouping.
