"'Great Expectations' first appeared as a serial in All the Year Round in 1860 and 1861. It was reprinted in volume-form in 1861. The illustrations for 'Great Expectations' are printed from the woodblocks engraved for the Illustrated Library Edition in 1862. 'Hard Times' was originally a serial in Household Words during 1854, and was re-issued as a volume in the same year. The illustrations by Fred Walker are printed from the original woodblocks made for the Illustrated Library Edition. The text given here of both novels is that of the 'Charles Dickens' Edition, which Dickens revised for the press. The captions which he wrote to go at the head of right-hand pages are printed in the margins of this volume against the relevant passages."--Page v.
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Young men -- England -- Fiction. | Ex-convicts -- Fiction. | England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fictions. | Social problems -- Fiction. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens.