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DICKENS, CHARLES: BEDFORD, F.D.:
Four Volume Set
With Illustrations by F.D. Bedford.
The Chimes;
The Battle of Life;
Cricket On The Hearth;
& The Haunted Man.

London, Chapman & Hall, 1899
Four Volumes.
Small hardbacks, 6 x 4 inches.
Halfbound calf leather and marbled paper to boards.
Raised banding to spines, with gilt lettering and floral decorations.
Top page edges gilt.
Marbled endpapers.
In very good conditions.
Some rubbing to spines; ends and corners of boards.
Small dark mark to ends of spine of Cricket on the Hearth.
Some minor handling marks to boards.
Small labels to endpapers Woods & Co. Royal Library, Malvern.
Neat inscriptions to Haunted Man and Battle of Life & Nancy Layard, (from her ever devoted Daddie.)
Small circular portrait of Dickens pasted to endpaper of Cricket on the Hearth.
Frontis plates and title pages clean and bright, inside pages all clean and tight.
Else a lovely little set.
4 vols:
Each illustrated with a colour title page and frontis plate by F.D. Bedford.
155, 154, 160 & 172pp.
Beautifully illustrated Charles Dickens books by F.D. Bedford.
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