Great Expectations

Featuring original illustrations by five distinguished nineteenth-century artists; dashing portraits of Dickens by George Cruikshank; relics from Gad's Hill Place, the novelist's beloved home; and revealing pages from Dickens's own private pocket diary.

*     *     *     *     *

The New York Public Library Collector's Editions

Favorite masterpieces of world literature illustrated by rare and beautiful materials from the Library's collections and featuring an elegant, distinctive design, with foil-trimmed covers with matching endpapers; compact, easy-to-hold size; and modern, readable type. Each book includes a biography of the author, a short essay about the images and artifacts from the Library used to illustrate the text, and suggestions for further reading.