Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, 1865, first book edition

DICKENS, CHARLES

Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865

8vo (221 x 140mm.), FIRST BOOK EDITION, 40 wood-engraved illustrations by Marcus Stone, this copy without the publisher's advertisements sometimes present at the end of volumes 1 and 2, original dark reddish-brown sand-grain cloth, covers decorated in blind with thick arch-frames, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, pale yellow endpapers, modern ownership signatures on front endpapers, edge-wear to bindings on edges and along spines, upper hinge of volume 1 starting, some spotting to plates and preliminary leaves

REFERENCE:

Smith I:15; Sadleir 697; Woolf 1809; Gimbel A150