Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 61

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DICKENS, CHARLES. Little Dorrit. 20 parts in 19. Forty inserted plates, including frontispiece and added vignette, after etchings by "Phiz" (Halbot K. Browne). 8vo, blue-green wrappers printed in black, occasional short splits along backstrips, mild scattered soiling, first ad leaf in parts 13 and 14 torn with loss, (pages 481-512 from part 16 supplied additionally in 2 unbound gatherings from separate copy); morocco pull-off case, worn. London: Bradbury & Evans, December, 1855-June, 1857
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first edition in original monthly parts. First issue text, with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pages 469, 470, 472, and 473 in Part 15, correction slips lacking in 12 and 13 as usual but containing slip in part 16, indicating the first issue; Little Dorrit Advertiser in all parts but 5 and 15. Hatton & Cleaver 307-330; Eckel 82-85.