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CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
Lot 88

DICKENS (CHARLES)
Master Humphrey's Clock, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, IN ORIGINAL 88 WEEKLY PARTS, Chapman and Hall, April 1840-December 1841

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

Master Humphrey's Clock, FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, IN ORIGINAL 88 WEEKLY PARTS, wood-engraved illustrations by G. Cattermole and H.K. Browne, with preliminary matter (title, preface and frontispieces) to parts 26, 52 and 88, and addresses by the author in Parts 9, 80-83 and 87, publisher's white pictorial wrappers, chipped and worn [cf. Eckel p.67ff; Gimbel A49; Hatton & Cleaver p.163], large 8vo, Chapman and Hall, April 1840-December 1841

Footnotes

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, IN THE 88 ORIGINAL WEEKLY PARTS - W.H. Collis's "3rd set... complete, but many parts dirty or ragged". Collis's inserted notes include instructions on cleaning and repairing (seemingly not carried out), the set's completeness ("collated on 10 June 35 with items from Mr. Hatton"), and mention extra sets of text or covers to choose from in parts 36, 44 and 46.

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