Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 110

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DICKENS, CHARLES. Little Dorrit. 2 volumes. Illustrated by H. K. Browne ("Phiz"). 8vo, crushed burgundy morocco with gilt fillet borders and spines by MacDonald and Sons, joints rubbed with some loss and tender from dryness, chip to foot of Volume 1, tips repaired but rubbed; bookplate of Cornelia Otis Skinner. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857

Additional Details

first edition, an extra-illustrated set compiled and bound by Curtis Guild in 1884 with an additional printed title-page stating that it is "Extended by the Insertion of numerous extra illustrations by Darley, Gilbert and other artists, collected from various sources by Curtis Guild. Boston. 1884." Provenance: Curtis Guild collection to Alden S. Blodget to Cornelia Otis Skinner.