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Bleak House - Charles Dickens

Store/19th Century Fiction
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1st Edition 1853. 40 plates by H K Browne. 1st state. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, with first issue points: "elgble" on page 19, line 6; "chair" on page 209, line 23; "counsinship" on page 275, line 22.frontispiece, illustrated title-page and 38 plates by or after Phiz ('Hablot K. Browne'), half-title, publisher's moderate olive green fine-diaper cloth, covers with two line blind-stamped border enclosing rectangular frame with loop-scroll design in each corner and a lineal globe-shaped design at centre, spine in blind stamped panels with lettering in gilt, pale yellow endpapers, Plate on Page 88 repaired long tear. A RARE BINDING VARIANT. Smith notes a copy with 'MDCCCLIII' at the foot of the spine as a 'binding variant' stating that he had seen only one copy and that the half-title was missing. The present copy includes the half-title.REFERENCE:

Smith I:10; Sadleir 682. Book is good++ and quite bright. Edges rubbed in places. Outer hinger repaired. Spine tips lightl;y frayed. Cloth marked and rubbed in places. Spine age toned. Contents average. Inscription to endpaper. Light age toning and odd marks to the pages. Plates age tined and foxed as usual.
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