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DICKENS (CHARLES) Great Expectations, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Chapman and Hall, 1861 image 1
DICKENS (CHARLES) Great Expectations, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Chapman and Hall, 1861 image 2
CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
Lot 127

DICKENS (CHARLES)
Great Expectations, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Chapman and Hall, 1861

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£4,000 - £6,000

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

Great Expectations, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, second issue, with "second edition" on title-pages and defective 'f' in "of" in volume 1, p.160, line 12, bound without advertisements in volume 3, publisher's violet wavy-grain cloth with blind-stamped floral design on covers, spines lettered in gilt, yellowish white endpapers, rubbed and slightly leaning, spines faded and bumped with short nicks, tear to lower joint of volume 1, slight remnants or glue marks from library labels on some paste-downs/endpapers [Eckel 91-93; Gimbel A146, as fourth copy but with yellow endpapers; Smith I:14; Sadleir 688], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1861

Footnotes

A GOOD COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION OF DICKENS'S BELOVED TALE.

Smith notes that "the first five issues were probably printed at a single impression and published with altered title-pages to imply and encourage a rapid sale". Only 1,000 copies of the first issue and 750 of the second were printed, with most of these copies going to Mudies and other circulating libraries, accounting for the scarcity of copies in good condition.

Provenance: Isabella Galton (possibly Isabella Galton, daughter of Joseph Strutt, wife of John Howard Galton, Hadzor House, Worcestershire).

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