May 15, 2018 - Sale 2478

Sale 2478 - Lot 116

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
DICKENS, CHARLES. Bleak House. 20 parts in 19. Forty inserted plates, including frontispiece and vignette title by H. K. Browne. 8vo, blue-green wrappers printed in black, some neat repairs, mostly to backstrips, scattered light soiling; some browning to plates as usual, heaviest to margins; later cloth drop-back box. London: Bradbury & Evans, March, 1852-Sept., 1853
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first edition in original monthly parts. Includes the scarce "Village Pastor" booklet in part 15, and the 8 page "Grace Aguilar's Works" slip in part 13 (though lacking in part 16), retaining others, including the "Bleak House Advertiser" in each. Eckel, pp. 79-81; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 275-304.