DICKENS, CHARLES | Great Expectations. London: Chapman & Hall, 1861

Property from an Important Private Collection, Chicago

DICKENS, CHARLES

Great Expectations. London: Chapman & Hall, 1861

3 vols., 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 in.; 197 x 120 mm). Title-page to each volume; minor toning, a few stray spots, lacking publisher's catalogue at end of vol. III. Original publisher’s violet wavy-grain cloth with floral decoration in blind on covers and spines lettered in gilt, yellowish white endpapers; overall rubbed, spines sunned, recased.

"Second edition" (first edition, second impression) in book form, of one of Dickens' most beloved works.

Beyond the "second edition" statement on the title pages, there is only one issue point specific to the second impression alone. This is on page 160, line 12 of the first volume where "f" in "of" is faulty.

REFERENCE:

Eckel 91-93; Smith II:14; Great Expectations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, Appendix D)