Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection

Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection

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

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September 24, 03:31 PM GMT

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500 - 700 GBP

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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.


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Smith I:6A