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Lot 106
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$200 -
300
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$260
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Lot Description
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853.
8vo. Engraved frontispiece, vignette title-page and 38 illustrations by J.K. Browne ("Phiz"), with the 10 "dark" plates. (Marginal browning and some dampstaining to plates, a few heavily toned, offsetting to text.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece gilt, others gilt, all edges marbled (fore-corners rubbed). Provenance: Alfred W. Wood (ownership signature dated 1865).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM published on 12 September 1853. Eckel, pp.64-66; Gimbel A154; Smith I:10.
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