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DICKENS (CHARLES) The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Chapman and Hall, 1844 image 1
DICKENS (CHARLES) The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Chapman and Hall, 1844 image 2
CHARLES DICKENS: THE COLLECTION OF W.H. COLLIS OF LIVERPOOL
Lot 92

DICKENS (CHARLES)
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Chapman and Hall, 1844

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1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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DICKENS (CHARLES)

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, half-title, etched frontispiece, additional title and 38 etched plates by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"), some light damp spots to plates, untrimmed in publisher's blue diagonally-ribbed and blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt, minor soiling, corners and spine ends slightly bumped [Eckel pp.71-73; Gimbel A72, binding as on first copy, errata as in second copy; Smith I:7], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1844

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A bright copy of the book that Dickens considered "in a hundred points immeasurably the best of my stories" (J. Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, 1928, p.305). The title vignette is in Smith's first state (no priority) with the reversed "100£" on the signpost and signed "Phiz fecit". The errata is in the usual second setting, with 14 rather than 13 lines.

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Please note that this lot has been rebacked preserving original spine

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