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DICKENS (CHARLES) Our Mutual Friend, 2 vol. in 1, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, 1865; Pickwick Papers, 1857 (2) image 1
DICKENS (CHARLES) Our Mutual Friend, 2 vol. in 1, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, 1865; Pickwick Papers, 1857 (2) image 2
DICKENS (CHARLES) Our Mutual Friend, 2 vol. in 1, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, 1865; Pickwick Papers, 1857 (2) image 3
CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
Lot 130

DICKENS (CHARLES)
Our Mutual Friend, 2 vol. in 1, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, 1865; and another (2)

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£300 - £500

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

Our Mutual Friend, 2 vol. in 1, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, late issue, pictorial title and 39 (of 40) wood-engraved plates by Marcus Stone, advertisement leaf at end, as issued without half-titles, title to volume 2 (see footnote) and publisher's catalogues, with loosely inserted variant title-page, letter from Thomas Hatton and a note from Collis, one gathering and one plate loose, publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, spine ends bumped, 2 knocks to edges of upper cover [Eckel p.94ff; cf. Gimbel A150; Sadleir 697; Smith 1:15], Chapman and Hall, 1865; The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, half-title, additional etched title and plates by Cruikshank, some foxing mainly at edges of plates, publisher's blind-stamped purple cloth, spine faded, Chapman and Hall, 1857, 8vo (2)

Footnotes

The one volume issue of Our Mutual Friend, whose make up is explained by Thomas Hatton in the inserted letter to Collis, dated 31 December 1935: "The 1 Vol edition is of the same sheets, and in most cases the preliminary leaves for the second vol were discarded when binding up. Why it should have been so made up I can't explain, but that is what the publisher's [sic] did."

The extra pictorial title-page loosely inserted by Collis in this copy is the variant with Chapman & Hall's address given as 'Henrietta Street', where the publishers moved in 1880, as opposed to 'Piccadilly'. The plate as p.132 in volume 1 appears not to have been bound in.

Provenance: First work, W.F. Lowe, small printed label on front paste-down.

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