Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection

Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection

Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, 1841, first separate edition, bound from the weekly parts, binding variant

Auction Closed

September 24, 03:31 PM GMT

Estimate

500 - 700 GBP

Lot Details

Description

DICKENS, CHARLES

The Old Curiosity Shop. London: Chapman and Hall, 1841


8vo (260 x 166mm.), FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, BOUND FROM THE WEEKLY PARTS, illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne, advertisement as called for, pp. 271 and 269 bound out of order, moderate olive green fine-diaper cloth with blind stamping (Smith's secondary binding variant), spine gilt, minor spotting, tear to margin of p. 245, spine sunned, bumped


The Old Curiosity Shop was first published in this separate volume on December 15, 1941, bound from portions of Master Humphrey's Clock.


REFERENCE:

Smith I:6A

(C) 2025 Sotheby's
All alcoholic beverage sales in New York are made solely by Sotheby's Wine (NEW L1046028)