May 14, 2019 - Sale 2508

Sale 2508 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
DICKENS, CHARLES. Master Humphrey's Clock. 3 volumes. Illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne. 8vo, original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, spine tips slightly worn, insignificant staining to covers; armorial bookplate and small bookseller's ticket to front pastedowns, hinges tender and one signature partly loose in vol. 3. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41

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first edition in book form. The third of four original forms of publication of Master Humphrey's Clock. First appearing in 88 weekly parts, followed by the 20 monthly parts, then this three-volume edition ("triple-decker"), and finally separately bound volumes of The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge. Smith I, 6.