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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Our Mutual Friend, First Edition in Parts.
London: Chapman and Hall, May 1864-November 1865.
First edition in parts, first issue, 20 monthly parts in 19 octavo booklets; illustrated with frontispiece and 39 plates after Marcus Stone by Dalziel and W.T. Green; complete with all the wrappers, plates, text, and advertisements as called for by Hatton & Cleaver, lacking the rare "Mutual Friend Economic Life Assurance Policy," slip in part XIV; bound in original wrappers, edges uncut (marginal spotting to plates only in part V; occasional thumbing; 13 parts very neatly rebacked, the remaining 8 with some small chips at spine ends, some wrappers lightly soiled); housed in a custom green half morocco pull-off box and chemise by Morrell; 9 x 5 1/2 in.
Additional Issue Points: part I includes the scarce notice addressed to the reader and the wrapper is in the first state, lacking the publisher's imprint at the foot; p. 13 of the "Advertiser" is in a rare uncorrected state, where it is misnumbered "31".
Eckel, pp. 94-95; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 343-370; Podeschi/Gimbel A149.
Provenance: Charles L. & Sandy Parkhurst with armorial bookplate; this set sold at Freeman's Chicago 10 November 2023, Lot 227.
