Lot 203
  • 203

Dickens, Charles

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Dickens, Charles
  • A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman & Hall, July - December 1859
  • paper
8 parts in 7 volumes, 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in.; 222 x 143 mm). Etched frontispiece, additional vignette title, and 16 plates, all advertisements mentioned in Hatton & Cleaver. Publisher's blue pictorial wrappers; backstrips mended with a few remaining tears, lower outer corner of part 3 upper cover mended. In a green cloth drop-box.

Literature

Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 333-342

Condition

backstrips mended with a few remaining tears. In a green cloth drop-box.
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Catalogue Note

A beautiful copy of the first edition, first issue, with all points mentioned by Hatton & Cleaver.