Nov 18, 2014 - Sale 2366

Sale 2366 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
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

Additional Details

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. Eckel, pp. 79-81; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 275-304.