DICKENS, CHARLES. A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall, July-December 1859. 8 parts in 7, 8vo, original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers, uncut, neatly rebacked, light staining to front wrapper of part 5, top margins of front wrappers cut close (touching a few letters on part 3), slight fraying and soiling to some wrappers, forest green morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS, early issue: folio 213 misprinted as 113, list of plates signed 'b' (both in part 7/8), "The Cornhill Magazine" advertisement leaf present in part 7/8; 16 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne, with the inserted advertisements noted in Hatton & Cleaver except for the "Tale of Two Cities Advertiser" and two other ads lacking in part 5 and a leaf missing from an advertisement in part 6. Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 331-342. (7) | Christie's

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DICKENS, CHARLES. A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall, July-December 1859. 8 parts in 7, 8vo, original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers, uncut, neatly rebacked, light staining to front wrapper of part 5, top margins of front wrappers cut close (touching a few letters on part 3), slight fraying and soiling to some wrappers, forest green morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS, early issue: folio 213 misprinted as 113, list of plates signed 'b' (both in part 7/8), "The Cornhill Magazine" advertisement leaf present in part 7/8; 16 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne, with the inserted advertisements noted in Hatton & Cleaver except for the "Tale of Two Cities Advertiser" and two other ads lacking in part 5 and a leaf missing from an advertisement in part 6. Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 331-342. (7)

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DICKENS, CHARLES. A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall, July-December 1859. 8 parts in 7, 8vo, original blue-green pictorial printed wrappers, uncut, neatly rebacked, light staining to front wrapper of part 5, top margins of front wrappers cut close (touching a few letters on part 3), slight fraying and soiling to some wrappers, forest green morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS, early issue: folio 213 misprinted as 113, list of plates signed 'b' (both in part 7/8), "The Cornhill Magazine" advertisement leaf present in part 7/8; 16 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne, with the inserted advertisements noted in Hatton & Cleaver except for the "Tale of Two Cities Advertiser" and two other ads lacking in part 5 and a leaf missing from an advertisement in part 6. Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 331-342. (7)