Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Title:
Bleak House.
Published / Created:
Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1938.

Scotland : R. & R. Clark, 1938.
Physical Description:
xx, [2], 874, [2] pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This edition of Bleak House, part of the Nonesuch Dickens designed by Francis Meynell, is limited to 877 copies. The text has been printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark Ltd., in this specially-cut version of Martin's type; the illustrations have been pulled by hand from the original plates by Mr. W.L. Colls of Barnes; the binding is executed by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co., Ltd.; and the paper was made by the Worthy Paper Company Association of West Springfield."--Colophon.
Subject Terms:
Young women -- Fiction. | London (England) -- Fiction. | Guardian and ward -- Fiction. | Illegitimate children -- Fiction. | Inheritance and succession -- Fiction. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London. | Fiction. | Legal stories. | Etchings -- 1938. | Engravings -- 1938.
Contributors:
Meynell, Francis, 1891–1975, book designer. | Nonesuch Press, publisher. | R. & R. Clark (Firm), printer. | Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co., binder.