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 as the New Illustrated Library Edition with prefaces by the American critic Edwin P. Whipple for mid-to-late nineteenth-century household readers. The plates are lightly etched narrative scenes set mostly indoors — parlours and offices with framed pictures, mantelpieces and chequered floors — packed with figures in frock coats, bonnets and full skirts, useful for period costume, crowd groupings and furnished interior backdrops.
