Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 2,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
DICKENS, CHARLES. A Tale of Two Cities. 16 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), including the frontispiece and added title vignette. 8vo, 19th-century green 1/4 morocco and marbled boards, spine tooled and titled in gilt, corners rubbed with some exposure; scattered foxing chiefly to preliminaries, restorations on verso to a few plates; bookplates to front (with an additional Dickens Centenary stamp) and rear pastedowns. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859

Additional Details

first edition in book form, first issue, with page 213 misnumbered, and 134, line 12 showing the misspelling "affetcionately." Hatton & Cleaver, page 333; Smith Vol. I, 13.