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DICKENS (CHARLES) The Works, 25 vol. (including "Dickensiana" and the steel plate), LIMITED TO 877 COPIES, Nonesuch Press, 1937-1938
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DICKENS (CHARLES)
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A very good set of the "Nonesuch Dickens". The original steel plate to this set is "Mysterious appearance of the Gentleman in the small clothes" by Hablot K. Browne, used as an illustration to Nicholas Nickleby. Included with the lot are the Nonesuch Dickens prospectus pamphlets Specimen Pages and A Note on the Format, and the publisher's original invitation to the subscriber to "Tea in the Perroquet Suite of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel... October 18 [where] the original steel- and wood-engravings made for the first editions of the works of Dickens will be allocated to the subscribers".
Provenance: Nathan Eckstein (?1873-1945, Seattle businessman and philanthropist), the subscriber to set 422, with his invitation to the Dickens Nonesuch Tea.





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