Works of Charles Dickens. New illustrated library edition. [With a preface to each work by Edwin P. Whipple
A volume of the New Illustrated Library Edition of Charles Dickens's works, published in the mid-nineteenth century with prefaces by the American critic Edwin P. Whipple, aimed at British and American household readers of serial fiction. The etched plates show Victorian shop interiors, tenement rooms, taverns and street corners packed with props crowded shelves, drying laundry, bottles, top hats and figures caught mid-gesture, useful for period costume, interior clutter and character silhouettes.
