The Gadshill Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens. With Introductions, General Essay, and Notes by Andrew Lang. [Plus] Miscellaneous Papers, Plays and Poems, edited by B.W. Matz. [Plus] John Forster's The Life of Charles Dickens.. This item is unavailable.The Gadshill Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens. With Introductions, General Essay, and Notes by Andrew Lang. [Plus] Miscellaneous Papers, Plays and Poems, edited by B.W. Matz. [Plus] John Forster's The Life of Charles Dickens.

The Gadshill Edition. [1897-1908]. 8vos. 38 vols. complete. Original, ribbed red cloth boards, gilt-blocked to spines and front; deckled fore-edges, top edges gilt. B/w frontispieces with tissue-guarded full-page steel-engraved plates from the original illustrations by various artists including Cruikshank, Phiz, Graves, and Tenniel, and many additional ones by Charles Green, Henry Furniss, Maurice Grieffenhagen et al. Vols. 35-6 Miscellaneous Papers, Plays and Poems (not previously collected), edited by B.W. Matz, 1908. With John Forster's The Life of Charles Dickens, 2 vols. added. All uniform in appearance, with the first 34 volumes. The Gadshill Edition (named after the summer-house, where Dickens was at work on Edwin Drood the day he died) and based on the so-called "Charles Dickens Edition" that was carefully corrected by the Author in 1867/68. Spines uniformly sunned with the odd small tear to tips, some light foxing to gently toned fore-edges, else near fine. A nice, tight, internally fresh, complete set overall. [Podeschi D140]. …