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Lot 101
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$600 -
900
Price Realized
$845
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Lot Description
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Personal History of David Copperfield. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850.
8vo. Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page (earlier state with date), and 38 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"). (Moderate to heavy foxing to plates, scattered spotting to text.) Original variant olive green cloth-covered boards, decorated in blind, spine lettered in gilt (recased, spine and extremities browned); black silk-covered slip case.
FIRST EDITION BOUND FROM THE ORIGINAL PARTS (remnants of wrappers and stab holes present). IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. Smith I, 9; Eckel, pp. 77-78

