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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Bleak House, First Edition in Parts, the Hersholt Copy.
London: Bradbury and Evans, March 1852-September 1853.
First edition in parts, first issue, complete with the first state of text, 20 monthly parts in 19 octavo booklets; illustrated with 40 etched plates by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"); bound in original blue pictorial wrappers, uncut (new tissue guards laid-in, a few areas of offsetting from dark plates and those in parts VIII, IX, and XII browned at margins; most parts expertly rebacked, some lightly soiled); all housed in a handsome full red morocco clamshell box; 9 x 5 1/2 in.
Additional Issue Points: "elgble" appears in part I, "chair" in part VII, and "counsinship" in part IX uncorrected; all in first issue wrappers; including all advertisements as called for by Hatton & Cleaver except the scarce "Grace Aguilar's Works" slips in parts VIII and XVI as well as the "New Geographical and Educational Works" ad in part XIV; each first issue advertiser point is met except: the last word of the first column is "as-" and the first word of the second column is "-sist" on p. 3 of "Norton's Camomile Pills" in part I and the "Crochet Cotton" slip in part III is in the second issue state.
Eckel, pp. 79-81; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 275-304; Podeschi/Gimbel A130.
Provenance: Jean Hersholt, 1886-1956 (Danish-American actor; his signed bookplate adhered to inside cover of clamshell box) - Freeman's Chicago 10 November 2023, Lot 220.
