DICKENS CHARLES Bleak House

Sale 2397 - Lot 444

Price Realized: $ 3,500

?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, small booklabel on front wrapper of 4 numbers, ownership signatures at top edge of front wrapper on 9 numbers, a few with professional backstrip repairs, wrappers bright with no soiling or tears; plates generally clean excepting heavy soiling in no. 14; cloth chemise and full morocco gilt pull-off case. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1852-53

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first edition in the original parts. With Bleak House Advertiser in each, lacking the scarce "Village Pastor" booklet in part 15; retaining others including scarce "Grace Aguilar's Works" ad in part 13; Part 4 with first gathering removed and bound in backwards. Hatton & Cleaver pp. 275-304.