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Author: Dickens, Charles
Title: Three Charles Dickens novels with fore-edge paintings
Place Published: London
Publisher:Chapman and Hall
Date Published: [ca. 1860s]
Description:

3 volumes. With illustrated title pages, frontispieces and numerous plates by H.K. Browne, S.L. Fildes, and George Cruikshank plus double fore-edge paintings. 21.5x13.5 cm (8½x5½"), contemporary leather ruled in gilt, raised bands, spines tooled in gilt; all edges gilt, patterned endpapers, blind dentelles.

Each volume features a double fore-edge painting illustrating a scene from the novel, with a portrait of the protagonist in vignette, comprising:

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  The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Illustrated by S.L. Fildes.


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  A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated by H.K. Browne.


• 
  The Adventures of Oliver Twist. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.

Bookseller stickers of R. Broomhall on front pastedowns.

Light soiling to leather, rubbing along joints; hinges tender or cracking, foxing to blank leaves, some marginal soiling; very good.