In fourteen volumes, totalling nearly 7,000 pages, with coloured frontispiece in each volume , half red leather, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt, red cloth boards, sometimes lightly marked or worn; top edges gilt, occasional damp stains, a little light foxing and soiling, Volume V the spine has become detached.The Globe Publishing Co., Ltd., London, 1925. Edition De Luxe, limited 1,000 numbered sets, Dubbed \'the Dickens of the Ghetto\', Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) was best known for his novel Children of the Ghetto and the play The Melting Plot (1980). He championed several causes, including Jewish emancipation, Jewish assimilation, territorialism, Zionism, pacifism, and women\'s suffrage. The coloured illustrations in this set are by the avant garde artist Alfred Wolmark (1877-1961)