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DICKENS (CHARLES) A Tale of Two Cities, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 7/8 MONTHLY PARTS, FIRST ISSUE, Bradbury & Evans, June-December 1859 image 1
DICKENS (CHARLES) A Tale of Two Cities, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 7/8 MONTHLY PARTS, FIRST ISSUE, Bradbury & Evans, June-December 1859 image 2
CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
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DICKENS (CHARLES)
A Tale of Two Cities, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 7/8 MONTHLY PARTS, FIRST ISSUE, Bradbury & Evans, June-December 1859

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

A Tale of Two Cities, FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 7/8 MONTHLY PARTS, FIRST ISSUE, with p.213 in part 7/8 mispaginated "113", and signature mark 'b' present on List of Plates at end, etched frontispiece, additional title and 14 plates by "Phiz" (Hablot K. Browne), some with tissue guards, occasional minor spotting or soiling but plates generally clean, publisher's blue-green printed wrappers, some neatly restored by Morrell, each within Collis's annotated paper wrappers, with 2 duplicates of part 1, Collis's notes and a letter from John Bryam, preserved in green cloth solander box with gilt lettered red morocco spine label [Eckel p.86; Gimbel A142; Hatton & Cleaver pp.333-342], 8vo, Bradbury & Evans, June-December 1859

Footnotes

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, IN THE ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS. This set of Dickens's classic tale, his final collaboration with "Phiz", is complete with all the advertisements called for by Hatton & Cleaver, and the two rare slips in parts 1 and 5. It includes three variant issues of part 1, one with Morison's 'premises' advert, the second with Morison's 'lion' advert, and the third with the rare French version of the Morison's 'lion' advert.

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