Nonesuch Press.- Dickens (Charles) [The Works] The Nonesuch Dickens, edited by Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole and others, 24 vol. including box with original steel plate, one of 877 sets, plates and illustrations, original variously-coloured buckram by Leighton Straker, gilt-stamped black roan labels, t.e.g., others uncut, very slight fading to spines and occasional soiling to covers, original steel plate with mounted engraving and publisher's signed letter of authenticity loose in box bound as the rest of the set, [Dreyfus 108], Nonesuch Press, 1937-38; and a copy of the accompanying Dickensiana, 8vo (25)

⁂ A very good set of arguably the most attractive edition of Dickens's works with only a little of the usual fading to the spines. The steel plate is "Mr. Pecksniff renounces the Deceiver" by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"), which appears opposite p.214 of Martin Chuzzlewit.