The Works of Charles Dickens: The Complete Edition [salesman's sample / dummy book]

DICKENS, Charles (ed. with Introduction by Andrew Lang)

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1900

Condition: Very good + Hardcover

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Octavo, unpaginated (about 50pp.) A very good or better copy in the publisher's green cloth; a tad musty, but clean and sound. A leather sample spine label is affixed to the front paste-down, while three cloth sample labels are affixed to the rear paste-down. Sample illustrations for various books, along with text excerpts and Lang's Introduction are included in the specimen mages. There is also a laid-in leaflet, unevenly age-toned, which contains sales/marketing copy promoting the set, along with a full list of the books. Curiously, we were unable to locate the actual set using the term "Complete Edition" in either auction records or OCLC, indicating either that it was never produced, or that it was produced under a different name. The "Gadshill Edition," also published by Scribner's, seems to have been quite similar when compared to the sample pages herein. In any event, OCLC records just three holdings of this sample book. Though Zinman has some similar sample books for Dickens sets, this one is not in Zinman. A great piece of Dickensiana. Seller Inventory # 11046

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Title: The Works of Charles Dickens: The Complete ...

Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York

Publication Date: 1900

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very good +

Edition: First Edition.

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