Complete and unabridged, with 59 full-page plates by William Quiller Orchardson, William Powell Frith and John Everett Millais. A short life of Dickens for the Great Writers series, published seventeen years after his death - the career, the readings, the separation and the death at Gad's Hill, with a full bibliography. This edition is bound with a gallery of 59 plates of painting, among them works by John Everett Millais, William Quiller Orchardson and David Wilkie, and includes one restored and coloured illustration.