DICKENS’S (CHARLES) WORKS.
ORIGINAL EDITIONS.
In Demy 8vo.
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. With Illustrations by S. L. Fildes, and a Portrait engraved by Baker. Cloth, 7s. 6d.
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. With Forty Illustrations by Marcus Stone. Cloth, £1 1s.
THE PICKWICK PAPERS. With Forty-three Illustrations by Seymour and Phiz. Cloth, £1 1s.
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. With Forty Illustrations by Phiz. Cloth, £1 1s.
SKETCHES BY “BOZ.” With Forty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Cloth, £1 1s.
MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. With Forty Illustrations by Phiz. Cloth, £1 1s.
DOMBEY AND SON. With Forty Illustrations by Phiz. Cloth, £1 1s.
DAVID COPPERFIELD. With Forty Illustrations by Phiz. Cloth, £1 1s.
BLEAK HOUSE. With Forty Illustrations by Phiz. Cloth, £1 1s.
LITTLE DORRIT. With Forty Illustrations by Phiz. Cloth, £1 1s.
THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. With Seventy-five Illustrations by George Cattermole and H. K. Browne. A New Edition. Uniform with the other volumes, £1 1s.
BARNABY RUDGE: a Tale of the Riots of ’Eighty. With Seventy-eight Illustrations by G. Cattermole and H. K. Browne. Uniform with the other volumes, £1 1s.
CHRISTMAS BOOKS: Containing—The Christmas Carol; The Cricket on the Hearth; The Chimes; The Battle of Life; The Haunted House. With all the original Illustrations. Cloth, 12s.
OLIVER TWIST and TALE OF TWO CITIES. In one volume. Cloth, £1 1s.
OLIVER TWIST. Separately. With Twenty-four Illustrations by George Cruikshank.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES. Separately. With Sixteen Illustrations by Phiz. Cloth, 9s.
⁂ The remainder of Dickens’s Works were not originally printed in Demy 8vo.
LIBRARY EDITION.
In Post 8vo. With the Original Illustrations, 30 vols., cloth, £12.
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| PICKWICK PAPERS | 43 | Illustrns., | 2 vols. | 16 | 0 | |
| NICHOLAS NICKLEBY | 39 | ” | 2 vols. | 16 | 0 | |
| MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT | 40 | ” | 2 vols. | 16 | 0 | |
| OLD CURIOSITY SHOP and REPRINTED PIECES | 36 | ” | 2 vols. | 16 | 0 | |
| BARNABY RUDGE and HARD TIMES | 36 | ” | 2 vols. | 16 | 0 | |
| BLEAK HOUSE | 40 | ” | 2 vols. | 16 | 0 | |
| LITTLE DORRIT | 40 | ” | 2 vols. | 16 | 0 | |
| DOMBEY AND SON | 38 | ” | 2 vols. | 16 | 0 | |
| DAVID COPPERFIELD | 38 | ” | 2 vols. | 16 | 0 | |
| OUR MUTUAL FRIEND | 40 | ” | 2 vols. | 16 | 0 | |
| SKETCHES BY “BOZ” | 39 | ” | 1 vol. | 8 | 0 | |
| OLIVER TWIST | 24 | ” | 1 vol. | 8 | 0 | |
| CHRISTMAS BOOKS | 17 | ” | 1 vol. | 8 | 0 | |
| A TALE OF TWO CITIES | 16 | ” | 1 vol. | 8 | 0 | |
| GREAT EXPECTATIONS | 8 | ” | 1 vol. | 8 | 0 | |
| PICTURES FROM ITALY and AMERICAN NOTES | 8 | ” | 1 vol. | 8 | 0 | |
| UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER | 8 | ” | 1 vol. | 8 | 0 | |
| CHILD’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND | 8 | ” | 1 vol. | 8 | 0 | |
| EDWIN DROOD and MISCELLANIES | 12 | ” | 1 vol. | 8 | 0 | |
| CHRISTMAS STORIES from “Household Words,” &c. | 16 | ” | 1 vol. | 8 | 0 | |
THE “CHARLES DICKENS” EDITION. | ||||||
| In Crown 8vo. In 21 vols., cloth, with Illustrations, £3 9s. 6d. | ||||||
| PICKWICK PAPERS | 8 | Illustrations | 3 | 6 | ||
| MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT | 8 | ” | 3 | 6 | ||
| DOMBEY AND SON | 8 | ” | 3 | 6 | ||
| NICHOLAS NICKLEBY | 8 | ” | 3 | 6 | ||
| DAVID COPPERFIELD | 8 | ” | 3 | 6 | ||
| BLEAK HOUSE | 8 | ” | 3 | 6 | ||
| LITTLE DORRIT | 8 | ” | 3 | 6 | ||
| OUR MUTUAL FRIEND | 8 | ” | 3 | 6 | ||
| BARNABY RUDGE | 8 | ” | 3 | 6 | ||
| OLD CURIOSITY SHOP | 8 | ” | 3 | 6 | ||
| A CHILD’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND | 4 | ” | 3 | 6 | ||
| EDWIN DROOD and OTHER STORIES | 8 | ” | 3 | 6 | ||
| CHRISTMAS STORIES, from “Household Words” | 8 | ” | 3 | 0 | ||
| TALE OF TWO CITIES | 8 | ” | 3 | 0 | ||
| SKETCHES BY “BOZ” | 8 | ” | 3 | 0 | ||
| AMERICAN NOTES and REPRINTED PIECES | 8 | ” | 3 | 0 | ||
| CHRISTMAS BOOKS | 8 | ” | 3 | 0 | ||
| OLIVER TWIST | 8 | ” | 3 | 0 | ||
| GREAT EXPECTATIONS | 8 | ” | 3 | 0 | ||
| HARD TIMES and PICTURES FROM ITALY | 8 | ” | 3 | 0 | ||
| UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER | 4 | ” | 3 | 0 | ||
| THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS. Uniform with this Edition, with Numerous Illustrations. 2 vols. 3s. 6d. each. | ||||||
THE ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY EDITION.
Complete in 30 Volumes. Demy 8vo, 10s. each; or set, £15.
This Edition is printed on a finer paper and in a larger type than has been employed in any previous edition. The type has been cast especially for it, and the page is of a size to admit of the introduction of all the original illustrations.
No such attractive issue has been made of the writings of Mr. Dickens, which, various as have been the forms of publication adapted to the demands of an ever widely-increasing popularity, have never yet been worthily presented in a really handsome library form.
The collection comprises all the minor writings it was Mr. Dickens’s wish to preserve.
SKETCHES BY “BOZ.” With 40 Illustrations by George Cruikshank.
PICKWICK PAPERS. 2 vols. With 42 Illustrations by Phiz.
OLIVER TWIST. With 24 Illustrations by Cruikshank.
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. 2 vols. With 40 Illustrations by Phiz.
OLD CURIOSITY SHOP and REPRINTED PIECES. 2 vols. With Illustrations by Cattermole, &c.
BARNABY RUDGE and HARD TIMES. 2 vols. With Illustrations by Cattermole, &c.
MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. 2 vols. With 40 Illustrations by Phiz.
AMERICAN NOTES and PICTURES FROM ITALY, 1 vol. With 8 Illustrations.
DOMBEY AND SON. 2 vols. With 40 Illustrations by Phiz.
DAVID COPPERFIELD. 2 vols. With 40 Illustrations by Phiz.
BLEAK HOUSE. 2 vols. With 40 Illustrations by Phiz.
LITTLE DORRIT. 2 vols. With 40 Illustrations by Phiz.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES. With 16 Illustrations by Phiz.
THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER. With 8 Illustrations by Marcus Stone.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS. With 8 Illustrations by Marcus Stone.
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. 2 vols. With 40 Illustrations by Marcus Stone.
CHRISTMAS BOOKS. With 17 Illustrations by Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., Maclise, R.A., &c. &c.
HISTORY OF ENGLAND. With 8 Illustrations by Marcus Stone.
CHRISTMAS STORIES. (From “Household Words” and “All the Year Round.”) With 14 Illustrations.
EDWIN DROOD AND OTHER STORIES. With 12 Illustrations by S. L. Fildes.
HOUSEHOLD EDITION.
In Crown 4to vols. Now Publishing in Weekly Penny Numbers and Sixpenny Monthly Parts. Each Penny Number will contain Two Illustrations.
15 Volumes completed.
OLIVER TWIST, with 28 Illustrations, cloth, 2s. 6d.; paper, 1s. 6d.
MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, with 59 Illustrations, cloth, 4s.; paper, 3s.
DAVID COPPERFIELD, with 60 Illustrations and a Portrait, cloth, 4s.; paper, 3s.
BLEAK HOUSE, with 61 Illustrations, cloth, 4s.; paper, 3s.
LITTLE DORRIT, with 58 Illustrations, cloth, 4s.; paper, 3s.
PICKWICK PAPERS, with 56 Illustrations, cloth, 4s.; paper, 3s.
BARNABY RUDGE, with 46 Illustrations, cloth, 4s.; paper, 3s.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES, with 25 Illustrations, cloth, 2s. 6d.; paper, 1s. 6d.
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, with 58 Illustrations, cloth, 4s.; paper, 3s.
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, with 59 Illustrations by F. Barnard, cloth, 4s.; paper, 3s.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS, with 26 Illustrations by F. A. Frazer, cloth, 1s. 6d.; paper, 1s. 9d.
OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, with 39 Illustrations by Charles Green, cloth, 4s.; paper, 3s.
SKETCHES BY “BOZ,” with 36 Illustrations by F. Barnard, cloth, 2s. 6d.; paper, 1s. 9d.
HARD TIMES, with 20 Illustrations by H. French, cloth, 2s.; paper, 1s. 6d.
DOMBEY AND SON, with 61 Illustrations by F. Barnard, cloth, 43.; paper, 3s.
UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER, with 26 Illustrations by E. G. Dalziel, cloth, 2s. 6d.; paper, 1s. 9d.
Messrs. Chapman & Hall trust that by this Edition they will be enabled to place the works of the most popular British Author of the present day in the hands of all English readers.
The next Volume will be CHRISTMAS BOOKS.
PEOPLE’S EDITION.
PICKWICK PAPERS. In Boards. Illustrated. 2s.
SKETCHES BY BOZ. In Boards. Illustrated. 2s.
OLIVER TWIST. In Boards. Illustrated. 2s.
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. In Boards. Illustrated. 2s.
MR. DICKENS’S READINGS.
Fcap. 8vo, sewed.
CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE, 1s.
CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, 1s.
CHIMES: A GOBLIN STORY, 1s.
STORY OF LITTLE DOMBEY. 1s.
POOR TRAVELLER, BOOTS AT THE HOLLY-TREE INN, and MRS. GAMP, 1s.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL, with the Original Coloured Plates; being a reprint of the Original Edition. Small 8vo, red cloth, gilt edges, 5s.
THE LIBRARY
OF
CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE.
Some degree of truth has been admitted in the charge not unfrequently brought against the English, that they are assiduous rather than solid readers. They give themselves too much to the lighter forms of literature. Technical Science is almost exclusively restricted to its professed votaries, and, but for some of the Quarterlies and Monthlies, very little solid matter would come within the reach of the general public.
But the circulation enjoyed by many of these very periodicals, and the increase of the scientific journals, may be taken for sufficient proof that a taste for more serious subjects of study is now growing. Indeed there is good reason to believe that if strictly scientific subjects are not more universally cultivated, it is mainly because they are not rendered more accessible to the people. Such themes are treated either too elaborately, or in too forbidding a style, or else brought out in too costly a form to be easily available to all classes.
With the view of remedying this manifold and increasing inconvenience, we are glad to be able to take advantage of a comprehensive project recently set on foot in France, emphatically the land of Popular Science. The well-known publishers MM. Reinwald and Co., have made satisfactory arrangements with some of the leading savants of that country to supply an exhaustive series of works on each and all of the sciences of the day, treated in a style at once lucid, popular, and strictly methodic.
The names of MM. P. Broca, Secretary of the Société d’Anthropologie; Ch. Martins, Montpellier University; C. Vogt, University of Geneva; G. de Mortillet, Museum of Saint Germain; A. Guillemin, author of “Ciel” and “Phénomènes de la Physique;” A. Hovelacque, editor of the “Revue de Linguistique;” Dr. Dally, Dr. Letourneau, and many others, whose cooperation has already been secured, are a guarantee that their respective subjects will receive thorough treatment, and will in all cases be written up to the very latest discoveries, and kept in every respect fully abreast of the times.
We have, on our part, been fortunate in making such further arrangements with some of the best writers and recognised authorities here, as will enable us to present the series in a thoroughly English dress to the reading public of this country. In so doing we feel convinced that we are taking the best means of supplying a want that has long been deeply felt.
The volumes in actual course of execution, or contemplated, will embrace such subjects as:
- SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE. [Ready.
- BIOLOGY. [In November.
- ANTHROPOLOGY. [In December.
- COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY.
- ASTRONOMY.
- PREHISTORIC ARCHÆOLOGY.
- ETHNOGRAPHY.
- GEOLOGY.
- HYGIENE.
- POLITICAL ECONOMY.
- PHYSICAL AND COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY.
- PHILOSOPHY.
- ARCHITECTURE.
- CHEMISTRY.
- EDUCATION.
- GENERAL ANATOMY.
- ZOOLOGY.
- BOTANY.
- METEOROLOGY.
- HISTORY.
- FINANCE.
- MECHANICS.
- STATISTICS, &c. &c.
All the volumes, while complete and so far independent in themselves, will be of uniform appearance, slightly varying, according to the nature of the subject, in bulk and in price.
When finished they will form a Complete Collection of Standard Works of Reference on all the physical and mental sciences, thus fully justifying the general title chosen for the series—“Library of Contemporary Science.”
“This is a translation of the first work of a new French series of Popular Scientific Works. The high character of the series, and also its bias, may be inferred from the names of some of its writers, e.g. P. Broca, Ch. Martins, C. Vogt, &c. The English publishers announce that the present volume will be followed immediately by others on Anthropology and Biology. If they are like their precursor, they will be clear and well written, somewhat polemical, and nobly contemptuous of opponents.... The translator has done his work throughout with care and success.”—Athenæum, Sept. 22, 1877.