Works of Charles Dickens. New illustrated library edition. [With a preface to each work by Edwin P. Whipple
A multi-volume illustrated library edition of Charles Dickens's novels, each work prefaced by the American critic Edwin P. Whipple, issued for general Victorian-era readers in Britain and the United States. The plates are narrative engravings in the manner of Phiz and Marcus Stone: crowded parlours and taverns, coach and street incidents, courting couples at garden gates, drawn with fine cross-hatched shadow and small comic figure groups useful for period costume, interiors and crowd staging.
