A collection of books contained within two crates, featuring a substantial partial set of the works of Charles Dickens and an eclectic assortment of historical, literary, and technical titles. The Dickens volumes are published by Odhams Press and are uniformly bound in red publisher’s cloth with decorative gilt-stamped spines featuring rose motifs. Titles include Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, Sketches by Boz, Bleak House, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times and Master Humphrey’s Clock, Nicholas Nickleby, Dombey and Son, The Old Curiosity Shop, Christmas Books, The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Barnaby Rudge, and Martin Chuzzlewit. Several volumes bear white ink classification markings (823.8) to the spines.
The second container includes titles such as The History of the Great European War, Vol. II published by Caxton Publishing Company Ltd., The Talisman by Walter Scott (F.C. & E.C. Jack), Seeing Roman Britain by Leonard Cottrell, Napoleon: The First Phase by Oscar Browning, Post-Victorian Britain 1902-1951 by L.C.B. Seaman, Pears’ Cyclopaedia, Wessex Wins by A.G. Street, Unpopular Essays by Bertrand Russell, and Postscripts by J.B. Priestley. Technical and travel texts are also present, including Ship Construction for Marine Engineers, Living in Spain (with dust jacket), and The Prophecies of the Brahan Seer. The volumes are primarily in octavo and duodecimo formats.
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