DICKENS CHARLES A Tale of Two Cities

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DICKENS, CHARLES. A Tale of Two Cities. Illustrated with 16 etched plates by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"), including frontispiece and added vignette title. 8vo, later full red polished morocco gilt extra, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, all edges and turn-ins gilt; occasional minor foxing, separation to gutter at pp. 252-53 but holding firm. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859

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first edition, first issue, with signature "b" present on the List of Plates leaf, and with misprint "affectionately" on p. 134, line 12, and page 213 incorrectly numbered "113." Smith I.13; Eckel, pp. 86-90.