The Centenary Edition of The Works of Charles Dickens

London: Chapman & Hall, 1910-1911. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 6". Phiz; Fred Walker; George Cruickshank; George Cattermole; Marcus Stone; et al.. A centenary edition of the works of Charles Dickens in a smart thirty-six volume set, with numerous illustrations. The centenary edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding.A stamp depicting Charles Dickens is adhered to the front paste down of Pickwick Papers: Volume I, and loosely inserted to this volume is a signed letter from 1929, presenting this collection to an employee of The Scottish Widows' Fund & Life Assurance Society.   This centenary edition of the works of Charles Dickens. The majority contain various prefaces from the first and other editions. The contents of the majority of these works are from the revised editions of 1867 and 1868, and are illustrated with frontispieces, a title page vignette to each Volume I, and 37 plates (reproductions of the original illustrations by Phiz and other well-known artists), unless otherwise stated below.Included in this collection of works are: Dombey and Son; Martin Chuzzlewit; David Copperfield; Bleak House; Little Dorrit; Nicholas Nickelby (40 plates); A Tale of Two Cities (16 plates); Miscellaneous Papers (19 plates); Great Expectations (8 plates); Edwin Drood and Master Humphrey's Clock (34 illustrations); Oliver Twist (24 plates); Pickwick Papers (43 plates); Hard Times (4 plates); The Uncommercial Traveller (8 plates); Sketches by Boz (56 plates); American Notes and Pictures from Italy (8 plates); The Old Curiosity Shop (75 illustrations); Barnaby Rudge (76 illustrations); Our Mutual Friend (40 illustrations) and A Child's History of England (8 plates).Also included are:Christmas Stories, with 15 plates, from the works "Household Words" and "All the Year Round", with the additional five stories: A Christmas Tree, The Poor Relation's Story, The Child's Story, The Schoolboy's Story, and Nobody's Story.Christmas Books, containing A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain. Illustrated with a frontispiece and an engraved title page to each story, and 65 illustrations.Reprinted Pieces including The Lamplighter, To be Read at Dusk, and Sunday under Three Heads. Illustrated with 8 plates.A book of Illustrations from Dickens's Works, containing 81 plates.All collated and complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart, though many have faint marks to the spine. Fading to the rear board of Dombey and Son: Vol I. Marks to the rear board of Martin Chuzzlewit: Vol I and front board of Hard Times. Front hinges are starting to Martin Chuzzlewit: Vol I, Our Mutual Friend: Vol I and David Copperfield: Vol II, but holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good