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Lot 386

Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021 4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021 4:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 - 600
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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Mystery of Edwin Drood. London: Chapman and Hall, April-September 1870.


6 original parts (224 x 143 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker from a photograph, engraved title after Luke Fildes, 12 wood-engraved plates by Dalziel, C. Roberts and others after Fildes. (A few minor stains or spots.) Original blue-green pictorial wrappers (repairs to some spines, some minor mostly marginal chipping, soiling); green cloth folding-case. 

FIRST EDITION, IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS. The "Edwin Drood Advertiser" is present in each part, as well as all the inserted advertisements listed in Hatton and Cleaver except: Dr. Jongh's ad in part I, the scarce "Cork Hat" ad in part II; p.1-2 of the Cassel ads in part III; 8pp. Chapman & Hall ad in part IV.  Part IV with the additional 8pp. Chapman & Hall ads not found in all copies; part VI with the printed slip "Price Eighteenpence" pasted over the original price of "One Shilling". Eckel pp. 96-98; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 373-384; Gimbel A154.

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