Nov 21, 2013 - Sale 2332

Sale 2332 - Lot 84

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DICKENS, CHARLES. A Tale of Two Cities. 16 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), including the frontispiece and added title vignette. 8vo, bound in crimson morocco, French fillet borders, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, top edges and inner dentelles gilt, by Riviere; front wrapper of original parts issue with advertisement on verso, number 2, bound in at end, last signature partially separated; monogram bookplate of Lowell Mason Palmer on front pastedown. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859

Additional Details

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