Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 77

Price Realized: $ 1,680
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. 20 parts in 19. Illustrated with 40 plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"). 8vo, original bluish green wrappers printed in black, some edgewear with closed tears and creases to covers but little staining, backstrips rubbed with loss, some professional restoration; plates occasionally browned or smudged; housed in gilt lettered cloth drop-back box, spine faded; John Francis Neylan bookplate. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843-44
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first edition, in the original twenty numbers bound in nineteen monthly parts (January,1843-July, 1844) with advertisements. The vignette title in the first state, signed "Phiz," and with the transposed "L" on the sign post; later state reset 14 line errata leaf in final part. Hatton and Cleaver, pages 183-212.