Lot 103
  • 103

Dickens, Charles

Estimate
700 - 1,000 GBP
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Description

  • Dickens, Charles
  • The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. With Illustrations by Phiz. Chapman and Hall, 1844
  • paper
8vo, first book edition, half title,  engraved frontispiece, additional title and 38 plates, nineteenth-century half dark purple morocco, cloth boards, preserved in black cloth slipcase, expertly recased, plates browned, small marginal repair to one plate

Provenance

William Henry Wills, bookplate; Sir William O. Priestley, bookplates; by descent to J.C. Priestley, with note loosely inserted ("...This is an original -- one of the first editions and very valuable. It belonged to my uncle W.H. Wills who was a partner of Dickens...")

Literature

Eckel, pp.71-73.

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing unless otherwise stated
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