Works of Charles Dickens. New illustrated library edition. [With a preface to each work by Edwin P. Whipple
A multi-volume collected edition of Charles Dickens's novels, issued in the later nineteenth century with prefaces by the American critic Edwin P. Whipple for household and library readers. The plates are soft-toned wood engravings of crowded Victorian interiors — parlours, kitchens, shops — full of gesturing figures in period dress, useful for domestic settings, furniture detail and vignette framing.
