Charles Dickens — The Old Curiosity Shop

London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1913]. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated edition of Charles Dickens' fourth novel, with coloured tipped in plates throughout. In the publisher's original red cloth binding.  Illustrated with a coloured tipped in frontispiece, and twenty further coloured tipped in plates by British artist Frank Reynolds. Collated, complete. The fourth novel by Charles Dickens, first printed in book form in 1841.  The plot follows the journey of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London, whose lives are thrown into disarray and destitution due to the machinations of an evil moneylender and the grandfather's gambling addiction. By Charles Dickens, who created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, light fading to spine, with bumping to the head and tail. Tide mark to boards, causing some rippling of cloth to the rear, with the odd mark. Rear paste down loosening from board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good . Ill.: Frank Reynolds. Good .