Dickens (Charles) Bleak House, first edition in book form, Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
Dickens (Charles) Bleak House, first edition in book form, half-title, engraved frontispiece, title and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne, light offsetting, occasional foxing or marginal toning to plates, light damp-stain to frontispiece and title, original variant cloth, recased, fading to spine, repairs to spine ends, light mottling and fading to covers, [Eckel pp.79-81; Smith I, 19], 8vo, Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
⁂ A rare cloth variant with "MDCCCLIII" in gilt to foot of spine. Smith states seeing only one copy with this lettering which was lacking the half-title.
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Dickens (Charles) Bleak House, first edition in book form, half-title, engraved frontispiece, title and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne, light offsetting, occasional foxing or marginal toning to plates, light damp-stain to frontispiece and title, original variant cloth, recased, fading to spine, repairs to spine ends, light mottling and fading to covers, [Eckel pp.79-81; Smith I, 19], 8vo, Bradbury and Evans, 1853.
⁂ A rare cloth variant with "MDCCCLIII" in gilt to foot of spine. Smith states seeing only one copy with this lettering which was lacking the half-title.
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