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Fireside Dickens. 23 vols 1903–7. Includes Forster’s Life.
National edition. Ed B. W. Matz 40 vols 1906–8. Includes
Miscellaneous papers, letters, speeches, plays and poems, and
Forster’s Life, together with the original illustrations, and portraits,
facs and drawings.
Centenary edition. 36 vols 1910–11. With original illustrations. A reissue
of the Gadshill edn, with Dickens’s prefaces substituted for
Lang’s introds. Includes Miscellaneous papers.
Universal edition. 22 vols [1912].
Other editions
Only those collections which include important new material are listed.
Larger series which include most Dickens titles are also listed.
Tauchnitz edition. Leipzig 1842–1918. At least from 1843 authorised
by Dickens, who received payment for advance proofs of his
works, for publication in Tauchnitz’s ‘Collection of British
Authors’, pbd for continental circulation only and prohibited
from importation into Britain or any British colony. See J. Y.
Southam, Dickensian 8 1912; P. H. Muir, BC 1955; W. B. Todd and
A. Bowden, Tauchnitz international editions in English
1841–1955: a bibliographical history, New York 1988.
New Illus Lib edition. Introds by E. P. Whipple 29 vols New York
1876–7.
The works of Charles Dickens. 21 vols 1892–1925. Usually known as
Macmillan edn. Rptd from 1st edns, with biographical and bibliographical
introds by C. Dickens the younger. Includes Letters,
ed G. Hogarth and M. Dickens 1893.
Rochester edition. 11 vols (all pbd) 1899–1901. Introds by George
Gissing and notes by F. G. Kitton.
Temple edition. Ed W. Jerrold 35 vols 1899–1903. Incomplete. Illustr
W. C. Cooke et al.
Imperial edition. 16 vols 1901–3. Incomplete; includes A critical
study by George Gissing and topographical illustrations by F. G.
Kitton.
London edition. 13 vols Edinburgh 1901–2. Topographical notes by
F. G. Kitton. Includes Kitton’s Dickens: his life, writings and personality,
2 vols [1902].
Autograph edition. Ed F. G. Kitton 15 vols 1903–8. Only 6 works pbd.
Original and later illustrations, introds by Gissing, Saintsbury,
Dowden et al; annotations, bibliography and topography by
Kitton.
Everyman’s Lib. 22 vols [1906–21]. Introds to Barnaby Rudge and A
tale of two cities by W. Jerrold, to remainder by G. K. Chesterton.
Charles Dickens Lib. Ed J. A. Hammerton 18 vols [1910]. 1,200 illustrations
in all, including the original ones and 500 specially
drawn by Harry Furniss. Vol 17 The Dickens picture book (a compendium
of information about illustrators of Dickens); vol 18
The Dickens companion (a biographical narrative with extracts,
list of authorities, short-title bibliography etc).
Waverley edition. 30 vols 1913–18. With character-study illustrations
by Charles Pears and coloured versions of F. Barnard’s illustrations.
Introds by G. B. Shaw, W. de Morgan, J. Galsworthy, A. C.
Benson, H. Caine et al.
The Nonesuch Dickens. Ed A. Waugh, H. Walpole, W. Dexter and T.
Hatton. 23 vols 1937–8. Text from Charles Dickens edn, 1867–75.
Illustrations from original plates and blocks (over 800) bought
from Chapman & Hall. Each work complete in one vol. Before
Pilgrim edn 1965 (see Letters, below), fullest collection of letters, 3
vols, ed Dexter. Includes The life of our Lord and other minor
items not in other edns; also Miscellaneous papers as Collected
papers 2 vols. Each set has one of the printing blocks in a dummy
book box uniform with the edn’s binding. See Nonesuch
Dickensiana: the Nonesuch Dickens: retrospectus and prospectus
(by A. Waugh, T. Hatton et al), 1937.
The New Oxford Illustrated Dickens. 21 vols Oxford 1947–58. See
under §1, below. With illustrations remade from the original draw-
ings. Introds by the following: Sketches by Boz, T. Holme; The
Pickwick papers, B. Darwin; Oliver Twist, H. House; Nicholas
Nickleby, S. Thorndike; The old curiosity shop, Earl of Wicklow;
Barnaby Rudge, K. Tillotson; Martin Chuzzlewit, G. Russell;
Dombey and son, H. W. Garrod; David Copperfield, R. H. Malden;
Bleak House, O. Sitwell; Hard times, D. Foot; Little Dorrit, L.
Trilling; A tale of two cities, J. Shuckburgh; Great expectations, F.
Page; Our mutual friend, E. S. Davies; The mystery of Edwin
Drood, S. C. Roberts; Christmas books, E. Farjeon; Christmas
stories, M. Lane; American notes and Pictures from Italy, S.
Sitwell; Master Humphrey’s clock and A child’s history of
England, D. Hudson; Uncommercial traveller and Reprinted
pieces, L. C. Staples. Apart from the last-named items, the edn
excludes Dickens’s minor and non-fictional writings.
Signet Classics edition. 1960–82. Charles Dickens text except for
Hard times and The mystery of Edwin Drood, both of which use
first book edn. Vol eds: The Pickwick papers, S. Marcus; Oliver
Twist, E. LeComte; Nicholas Nickleby, S. Marcus; Martin
Chuzzlewit, M. Mudrick; Dombey and son, A. Pryce-Jones; David
Copperfield, E. Johnson; Bleak House, G. Tillotson; Hard times,
C. Shapiro; Little Dorrit, R. Altick; A tale of two cities, E. Johnson;
Great expectations, A. Wilson; Our mutual friend, J. H. Miller;
The mystery of Edwin Drood, J. Wright.
Penguin English Lib edition, later Penguin Classics. 1965– (in
progress). Various texts used. Individual vol eds: Sketches by Boz,
D. Walder; The Pickwick papers, R. L. Patten; Oliver Twist, P.
Fairclough, introd by A. Wilson; Nicholas Nickleby, M. Slater;
The old curiosity shop, A. Easson, introd by M. Andrews; Barnaby
Rudge, G. Spence; Martin Chuzzlewit, P. N. Furbank; Dombey
and son, P. Fairclough; David Copperfield, T. Blount; Bleak
House, N. Page, introd by J. H. Miller; Hard times, D. Craig; Little
Dorrit, J. Holloway; A tale of two cities, G. Woodcock; Great
expectations, A. Calder; Our mutual friend, S. Gill; The mystery
of Edwin Drood, A. J. Cox, introd by A. Wilson; American notes, J.
S. Whitley and A. Goldman; Selected short fiction, D. A. Thomas.
The Clarendon Dickens. Ed J. Butt and K. Tillotson, Oxford 1966– .
(in progress). The first edn based on a collation of texts, with
textual variants and bibliographies. Vol eds: The Pickwick
papers, J. Kinsley; Oliver Twist, K. Tillotson; The old curiosity
shop, E. Brennan; Martin Chuzzlewit, M. Cardwell; Dombey and
son, A. Horsman; David Copperfield, N. Burgis; Little Dorrit, H.
P. Sucksmith; Great expectations, M. Cardwell; The mystery of
Edwin Drood, M. Cardwell.
Norton edition. 1966– (in progress). Introd, notes, background
sources and studies. Vol eds: Oliver Twist, F. Kaplan; David
Copperfield, J. H. Buckley; Bleak House, G. H. Ford and S.
Monod; Hard times, G. H. Ford and S. Monod; Great
Expectations, E. Rosenberg.
World’s Classics edition. 1982– (in progress). Texts based on the
Clarendon edn where available, introd, notes, and chronology.
Vol eds: The Pickwick papers, J. Kinsley; Oliver Twist, K.
Tillotson; Nicholas Nickleby, P. Schlicke; The old curiosity shop,
E. Brennan; Martin Chuzzlewit, M. Cardwell; Dombey and son,
A. Horsman; David Copperfield, N. Burgis; Bleak House, S. Gill;
Hard times, P. Schlicke; Little Dorrit, H. P. Sucksmith; A tale of
two cities, A. Sanders; Great expectations, M. Cardwell, introd by
K. Flint; Our mutual friend, M. Cotsell; The mystery of Edwin
Drood, M. Cardwell.
Dickens on disk. Ed F. Levit, Wilmette IL 1991– (in progress). CD-
Rom version.
Mandarin edition, introd by P. Ackroyd 1991.
The Everyman Dickens. Ed M. Slater 1994– (in progress). Texts
based on the Charles Dickens edn (corrected), with original illustrations,
plus introd, notes, chronology, text summary and
survey of critical responses. Individual vol eds: The Pickwick
papers, M. Andrews; Oliver Twist, S. Connor; Nicholas Nickleby,