Feb 25, 2021 - Sale 2559

Sale 2559 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DICKENS, CHARLES. Little Dorrit. 20 parts in 19. 40 etched plates by H. K. Browne (Phiz). 8vo, original blue-green wrappers printed in black, occasional spine repairs, browning to spines and wrapper edges, several wraps split along joints (wrappers detached on a few), Part 11 with tears to front wrap, scattered soiling; plates darkened and spotted, heaviest to margins; housed in 2 morocco pull-off cases. London: Bradbury & Evans, December 1855-June 1857

Additional Details

First edition in original monthly parts. First issue text, with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pages 469, 470, 472, and 473 in Part 15 indicating first issue; correction slips lacking in 12 and 13; one or more Little Dorrit ads lacking in five parts. Hatton & Cleaver 307-330; Eckel 82-85.