Dickens Works Styling Book dresser tray textured relief to the artwork

textured relief to the artwork

Antique book

each one worked by hand

and plenty of wall left to grace

and trailing vines rendered in soft palette across a cream ground

Dickens Works Styling Book dresser tray textured relief to the artworkAntique book, likely published in the late 1890s, spine bound collection of Charles Dickens works volume II, Collier's Unabridged Edition. The cover is cloth backed with embossed portraits on the cover. Pages are foxed with age, edges worn soft from handling. Bound together are three works: Great Expectations, Little Dorrit and Martin Chuzzlewit. The typography and printing are period appropriate, stamped Mary Straw on the first three pages. 7"L 2"W