Mar 02, 2023 - Sale 2628

Sale 2628 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
DICKENS, CHARLES. A Tale of Two Cities. 8 parts in 7. Etched frontispiece, additional title and 14 plates by Hablot K. Browne. 8vo, original blue-green pictorial wrappers, some rebacked or with repairs to spines; ex-collection Donald Drapkin with his bookplate; custom 1/4 morocco folding case. First edition in original monthly parts, first issue of parts 7/8 with page 213 numbered "113", preceded by the weekly publication in All the Year Round. "Tale of Two Cities Advertiser" present in each part (lacking pp. 1-2 in part VI, and pp. 1-4 in part VII) and other inserted advertisements (lacking that of the Cornhill Magazine in part 7/8), including Dr. de Jongh's Cod Liver Oil ad and Morison's Medicines ad both present in part VII (not called for in Hatton & Cleaver). Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 331-42; Eckel, pp. 86-90. London: Chapman & Hall, 1859