Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens (FOLIO SOCIETY 2006) RARE!!

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Martin Chuzzlewit- Charles Dickens . (FOLIO SOCIETY 2006). BOOK CONDITION: Near Fine. Appears unread. SLIPCASE CONDITION: Very Good with minor wear and tear, rubbing. 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" tall. One Quarter Burgundy Leather over red cloth with gilt lines and with black & gilt spine title label, housed in publisher's slipcase. Top edge gilt, ribbon bookmark bound in. Replicates the text and illustrations of the 1937 Nonesuch Dickens. 844 pages, illustrated throughout. This is a golden opportunity to bid on an EXTREMELY RARE volume, one of 16 volumes of Dickens's novels issued by the Folio Society last decade.. I know of no other copies currently on sale anywhere in the world! The Folio Edition. Commissioned Introductions: by leading lights in the academic and literary world such as Patrick McGrath (Barnaby Rudge), A. N. Wilson (Pickwick Papers), John Ezard (Martin Chuzzlewit) and Dickens's acclaimed biographer Peter Ackroyd (Bleak House, Oliver Twist and Edwin Drood). Original Illustrations: Dickens himself worked closely with his illustrators, suggesting corrections to preliminary sketches. We gain insight into his own vision of the characters in these delightful plates made by such renowned illustrators as George Cruikshank, Marcus Stone and 'Phiz'. Favini Paper: specially made in the Rossano mill near Venice to match the cream read more
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