Dickens, Charles

8vo, first edition, first binding, 2 volumes, wood-engraved frontispieces and 38 illustrations by Marcus Stone, with the rare slip concerning the title of the novel tipped in to volume 1, single leaf of advertisements at the end of volume 2, bound from the original parts with stab holes evident, original plum cloth, gilt, pale yellow endpapers, silk slipcase, occasional slight spotting, covers slightly rubbed, lower cover of vol.1 reattached, upper cover of vol.2 repaired at corner with loss, joints slightly worn, spines bumped at head and foot

Eckel, pp.94-95; Smith I:15

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