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Dickens, Charles.
Barnaby Rudge [Nonesuch Dickens].
Publisher: The Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury;
Date of Publication: 1937
Stock Code: 10499
LIMITED EDITION of 877 copies only. Large octavo, pp., ix, [3], 685, [3]. Illustrated throughout with engravings and decorative initial letters by Phiz and Cattermole, plus facsimiles of the frontispieces to “Master Humphrey’s Clock” and the 1849 Cheap Edition, and the engraved title-pages for Volumes I and II of the 1858 Library Edition. Original blue buckram bound by Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co, with gilt titles to black label to spine; top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine lightly sunned and a little foxed; boards bumped at corners and upper board damp-stained to lower third. Endpapers lightly foxed otherwise contents clean, with no annotation or inscriptions. A very good copy overall. Part of the sought-after Nonesuch Dickens, which brought the deluxe standard of the private publication to an edition printed on a trade press rather than by hand, allowing for a larger print run and a wider audience. The text in this volume is taken from the 1868-70 “Charles Dickens Edition” which the Author himself revised and corrected, and the illustrations are those designed for the first publication. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery. £150.00