DICKENS | Bleak House, 1853, first edition in book form

DICKENS, CHARLES

Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853

8vo (214 x 130mm.), FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, frontispiece, illustrated title page and 38 plates by or after Hablot K Browne "Phiz", of which 10 are the 'Dark Plates', half-title, contemporary half calf, spine gilt with decorative tooling in five bands, title lettered in gilt on red morocco label, marbled boards, marbled edges, plates browned, a few heavily, paper flaw p. 221, binding rubbed at extremities

This first edition in book form was published on September 12, 1853.

LITERATURE:

Smith I: 10