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DICKENS, Charles. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, May 1864-November 1865.
20 parts in 19, 8o (220 x 142 mm). Half-titles. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 39 wood engravings after Marcus Stone by Dalziel and W.T. Green. Original green pictorial printed wrappers (6 parts rebacked, a few other small repairs, some minor soiling); quarter green morocco pull-off case.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, first issue of part 1 without the printer's imprint on front wrapper, and with the scarce slip addressed to the reader. The Our Mutual Friend Advertiser in each part and other inserted advertisements as listed in Hatton and Cleaver with the following exceptions: part one lacking the final slip, part two lacking one slip, parts 3 and 6 lacking the Glenfield Starch ads, 2 ads lacking in part 7 and parts 16 and 19/20 lacking the Mappin, Webb & Co. ads. Our Mutual Friend was Dickens's fourteenth, and last, completed novel. Eckel, pp. 94-5; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 343-370; Yale/Gimbel A149.
20 parts in 19, 8o (220 x 142 mm). Half-titles. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 39 wood engravings after Marcus Stone by Dalziel and W.T. Green. Original green pictorial printed wrappers (6 parts rebacked, a few other small repairs, some minor soiling); quarter green morocco pull-off case.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, first issue of part 1 without the printer's imprint on front wrapper, and with the scarce slip addressed to the reader. The Our Mutual Friend Advertiser in each part and other inserted advertisements as listed in Hatton and Cleaver with the following exceptions: part one lacking the final slip, part two lacking one slip, parts 3 and 6 lacking the Glenfield Starch ads, 2 ads lacking in part 7 and parts 16 and 19/20 lacking the Mappin, Webb & Co. ads. Our Mutual Friend was Dickens's fourteenth, and last, completed novel. Eckel, pp. 94-5; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 343-370; Yale/Gimbel A149.