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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Complete in six parts. A facsimile edition of the original serial publication of Charles Dickens' final, unfinished novel, complete with illustrations and the contemporary advertisements. Greeny-blue printed paper wraps. 8vos. There is a little gentle edge wear to covers else the set is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. Dickens intended The Mystery of Edwin Drood to be in 12 parts but had written only six before his death in 1870. The original parts featured now iconic pictorial covers, exactly reproduced in this set, designed by Dickens. Scholars have studied them since for clues to the unresolved plot. The University of Kent's facsimile reproduction allows modern audiences to experience the novel just as Dickens' contemporary audience encountered it, complete with the original typography, advertisements and artwork from the 1870s serial run. It also marks both Dickens' and the novel's close associations with Kent - Dickens lived at Gads Hill Place in Higham, Kent and the fictional town of Cloisterham in Edwin Drood is a thinly veiled depiction of Rochester, Kent.…