The Works of Charles Dickens. The Pocket Volume Edition.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1880. Thirty volumes bound in fifteen, small octavo (150 x 105 mm); contemporary uniform bindings of half navy calf over marbled papered boards (very lightly rubbed), spines in compartments with gilt decoration and contrasting red and brown leather title-pieces lettered in gilt (gleaming and bright); marbled edges and endpapers; bindings nice and firm, internally excellent throughout, some occasional spotting to the edges and insignificant foxing to some of the preliminary leaves, but no handling marks, underlining or previous owners’ inscriptions; a handsome set, in fine condition, of Dickens’ complete works, issued a decade after his death.