3 volumes, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, nineteenth-century dark green crushed morocco gilt by Riviere and sons, ORIGINAL PURPLE CLOTH COVERS AND SPINES BOUND IN, top edges gilt, turn-ins, maroon endpapers, very slightly browned (3)
A HANDSOME COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S MOST ENDURING WORK, with the textual first issue points as detailed in appendices C and D of the Clarendon Press edition of Great Expectations (1993).
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English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, including The Garrett Herman Collection: The Age of Darwin
3 volumes, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, nineteenth-century dark green crushed morocco gilt by Riviere and sons, ORIGINAL PURPLE CLOTH COVERS AND SPINES BOUND IN, top edges gilt, turn-ins, maroon endpapers, very slightly browned (3)
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