A Tale of Two Cities.
DICKENS Charles (1859.)
£800.00 [First Edition]
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First edition, second state. With 14 illustrations by H. K. Browne, frontispiece and title vignette. 8vo. viii, [2], 254 pp. Original green cloth, re-backed and repaired, gilt lettering to spine, and blind stamped to spine and boards. London, Chapman and Hall.
In the scarce olive green secondary binding, which according to Smith are probably of a later state. Page 213 is correctly numbered which also indicates a later state.
A fair copy, with a good deal of repair work, quite noticeable soiling to boards and fading and browning to spine, corners rubbed and a little frayed, plates a little toned and preliminaries spotted.
Walter E. Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, Part 2, 13.
Stock Code: 241047
