DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman & Hall, 1859. 8°. Wood-engraved frontispiece, vignette on engraved title and 12 plates by H. K. Browne (dampstain to frontispiece, title and plates, occasional spotting and staining). Original red cloth decorated in blind (lacking spine, rubbed and stained, inner hinges split, contents loose). Provenance: ?C. L. Clarke (signature dated 1860); J. Buchanan (signature dated [18]94; K. Hill (signature dated 1941). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with p.213 misnumbered 113 and "affetcionately" on p.134. Eckel p.86ff; Sadleir 701; Wolff 1811.