[Rarebooks] FS: THE NONESUCH DICKENS with original steel plate

[Charles Agvent]

DICKENS, Charles (NONESUCH PRESS). THE NONESUCH DICKENS. Bloomsbury: 
Nonesuch Press, 1937-38. First Edition. Twenty-five large octavo volumes 
bound in the publisher's linen buckram which varies in color throughout 
the set, gilt title on black leather spine labels, top edges gilt. 
Numerous plates, some in color, and text illustrations from the original 
steel plates and woodblocks. Printed on Worthy rag paper, imported from 
America, by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. Limited to 877 copies, the 
quantity determined by the number of steel plates and woodblocks 
available. The twenty-five volumes include a drop-back box containing 
the engraving "Greenwich Fair" by George Cruikshank with the original 
steel plate and a letter from the publisher Chapman & Hall attesting to 
its authenticity. Also included is The Nonesuch Dickens: Retrospectus 
and Prospectus and the pamphlet A Note on the Format, as well as a 
letter from the publisher to the original subscriber. The publisher 
Mitchell Kennerley believed the Nonesuch Dickens to be "the most 
interesting, the most satisfactory, the most enduringly beautiful, the 
most monumental and the most desirable collected edition of the works of 
any author I have ever encountered." Considered the most "complete and 
perfect edition to be put upon the market" by editor and Dickens scholar 
Arthur Waugh. Contents generally very clean, occasional light foxing 
mostly to endpapers. Sunning to some spines, marking or soiling to some 
covers. A Very Good to Near Fine and complete set. (#019686)        $8,500

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