Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 115

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
DICKENS, CHARLES. A Tale of Two Cities. 16 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), including the frontispiece and added title. 8vo, 20th-century brown half morocco and marbled boards, spine decorated and lettered in gilt on two burgundy calf labels; edges marbled, top trimmed, some plates trimmed close to or sometimes partially clipping captions, erased pencil notes on front endpaper; bookplate of Otis Skinner Blodget laid in. first edition in book form, second issue, with page 213 correctly printed but 134, line 12 still showing the misspelling of "affetcionately." Hatton & Cleaver, page 333; Smith Vol. I, 13. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859