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First Edition. First issue of the cheap edition of this Dickens classic with the new preface dated September 1848. The third of Dickens' works to be offered in this format.
In total 18 books (most sources say 16 or 17 - but they are wrong!) were published in the cheap edition between 1847 and 1868. In publisher's original vertically ribbed olive cloth with elaborate blind-stamping to covers and gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Frontis. by Cattermole, 3pp preface and text in double columns.
Neat repairs to minor snags at head and tail of spine, faint ring stain to front cover and usual sunning of spine from green to brown. A perfectly sound copy of a book that is now increasingly had to find in the original cloth. George Cattermole (illustrator).
Written by Dr Jeremy Parrott, who has the book in his hands. Nothing here is generated from a catalogue record.
Bibliographic detail
| Author | Dickens, Charles |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Chapman & Hall, London |
| Date | 1848 |
| Edition | First Edition |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Condition | Good Plus |
| Stock reference | ab_14466310966 |
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