DICKENS, Charles. The Plays and Poems … with a few miscellanies in prose, now first collected, edited, prefaced and annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd. FIRST EDITION, 2nd issue. 2 vols. W.H. Allen. 1885
Half titles. Orig. royal blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt; spines darkened & rather worn at heads & tails. Labels of the Constitutional Club library. Externally poor, but internally clean & fresh.
¶The second issue, omitting No Thoroughfare, which had appeared in the first issue without copyright clearance. With an 'introductory monograph' by Shepherd, 'Charles Dickens as a dramatist, actor and poet'.