Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by William Powell Frith, John Everett Millais and James Tissot. The frame Dickens built for a weekly magazine of his own - a club of old men reading manuscripts to each other by the fire, out of which The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge grew before it collapsed under them. The Pickwick characters come back for one last appearance. This edition is bound with a gallery of 60 plates of painting, among them works by Adolph Tidemand, Thomas Creswick and Samuel Bough, dating from 1842 to 1910.