Lot 140 Dickens, The Battle of Life, 1846, first edition, fourth state

DICKENS, CHARLES

The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846

8vo (165 x 104mm.), first edition, 13 illustrations (by Daniel Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield, and John Leech), fourth state of the vignette title page, advertisement leaf at the end, original deep red horizontally-ribbed cloth, covers decorated in blind with upper cover pictorially stamped in gilt (two cherubs mounted on wasps above a decorative spray), cream endpapers, all edges gilt

A SUPERB COPY OF DICKENS' FOURTH CHRISTMAS BOOK.

REFERENCE:

Smith II:8; Eckel p.121