[4], vii-xxxiv, [2], 798, [2] pages, [48] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"The text printed in this volume is taken from the 'Charles Dickens' edition of Dickens's Works issued in 1868-1870. Dickens himself revised this edition for the press, striking out or altering words here and there and making extensive changes in punctuation. A few indisputable misprints which escaped his eye have now been corrected. The captions written by Dickens to go at the head of right-hand pages in the 'Charles Dickens' edition are printed in the margins of this volume against the relevant passages. The illustrations are printed from the plates etched for the original edition, excepting the two by R.W. Buss. These were discarded during the currency of the first edition and presumably destroyed: they are reproduced in this edition from copper plates photographically etched from the original edition. To the 45 etchings for the first edition have been added the two illustrated title-pages engraved by 'Phiz' for the Library Edition of 1858-9, printed here from the original plates. The pictorial wrapper of the original edition is printed from an electrotype of the original wood-engraving and a photographic reproduction of the wording."--Page vii.
Subject Terms:
Men -- Societies and clubs -- Fiction. | England -- Fiction. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.