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Lot 341

Sale 5126 - Fine Books, Maps & Manuscripts
May 31, 2012 6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$600 - 800
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$425
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19 vols. (wrappers)...


19 vols. (wrappers).
Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-1853. 1st ed., 20 parts in 19. 8vo, orig. blue green pictorial wrappers; front wrappers of no. 1 chipped at fore-edge corners, with loss to ptg, front wrapper of no. 1 moderately dusty, ink stain & some corner chipping to back wrappers of no. 1, back wrapper of no. 12 detached (but present), other scattered minor wear to wrappers. With 40 plates (vignette title) after H.K. Browne. Plates moderately to heavily foxed. Nos 2-5, 7-9, 11, 13-15, 17, 19 & 20 with all adverts & slips; no. 1 lacking w. mott & nortonis camomile adverts, no. 6 crocket cotton slip torn & defective, no. 10 lacking new sporting newspaper advert, no. 16 lacking Grace Aguilar's works adverts, no 18 lacking Household Works slip. in custom 1/2 brown morocco & cloth solander case (occasionally rubbed.)
Hatton & Clever pp 275-304.

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