Charles Knight — London

London, Henry Bohn, 1851. Leather. A beautifully bound illustrated set of Charles Knight's London Complete six volumes bound as three. Containing various articles and essays on London life, as well as its buildings and people. Charmingly illustrated with engraved vignettes throughout the text and featuring a beautifully engraved frontispiece to volume one. Charles Knight was an English publisher, editor and author. The son of a bookseller and printer at Windsor, he was apprenticed to his father. On completion of his indentures he took up journalism and had an interest in several newspaper speculations, including the Windsor, Slough and Eton Express. Besides many illustrated editions of standard works, including in 1842 an edition of the works of William Shakespeare entitled The Pictorial Shakespeare, Knight published a variety of illustrated works, such as Old England and The Land we Live in and The Pictorial Gallery of Arts - Useful Arts, and London. Uniformly bound in a red half morocco binding with marble covered boards. Externally rubbed with light bumping. Backstrip lifting to volume I. Personal bookplate to front pastedown of all volumes with ink signatures to front free-endpaper. Booksellers label to front pastedown of all volumes. Internally volumes are firmly bound. Pages are generally clean and bright throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .