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DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1864-1865. 20 parts in 19, 8° (222 x 140mm). 2 half-titles, 2 printed titles. 40 wood-engraved plates, including frontispiece, after Marcus Stone by Dalziel and W.T. Green. (Plates and text lightly browned, light spotting, p.193 torn with loss of blank margin, clean tear also affecting text on verso, pencil drawing on verso of last advertisement leaf in pt VIII). Original green printed wrappers, uncut (a few wrappers soiled, some spines chipped, front wrapper of pt.II detached, extremities chipped, occasionally with loss affecting image).
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS, with the printer's imprint on front wrapper of part I and with the slip addressed to the reader. This copy contains all advertisments called for by Hatton & Cleaver; part XVIII contains a rare additional 8pp. advertisement ('Messrs. Chapman and Hall's new publications') which is not called for, though the same advertisement is included in part XVII. Eckel pp. 94-95; Hatton & Cleaver pp. 343-370; Gimbel A149. (19)
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS, with the printer's imprint on front wrapper of part I and with the slip addressed to the reader. This copy contains all advertisments called for by Hatton & Cleaver; part XVIII contains a rare additional 8pp. advertisement ('Messrs. Chapman and Hall's new publications') which is not called for, though the same advertisement is included in part XVII. Eckel pp. 94-95; Hatton & Cleaver pp. 343-370; Gimbel A149. (19)
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