DICKENS CHARLES Bleak House

Sale 2397 - Lot 443

Price Realized: $ 2,375

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,500

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, fore-edge of front wrapper on no. 1 chipped; some browning to plates as usual, heaviest to margins; 1/4 morocco pull-off case (worn). London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-53

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first edition in original monthly parts. Lacking the 8 page "Grace Aguilar's Works" slip in part 16, retaining others, including Bleak House advertiser in each, and the scarce "Village Pastor" booklet in part 15. Eckel, pp. 79-81; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 275-304.