Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation, 1842, first edition

DICKENS, CHARLES

American Notes for General Circulation. Chapman and Hall, 1842

8vo (198 x 123mm.), 2 volumes, FIRST EDITION, half-titles, first state with second Contents page in volume 1 misnumbered xvi and 6pp. of advertisements at the end of volume 2, original greyish-brown vertically-ribbed cloth with floral frame in blind on covers (variant binding), pale yellow endpapers, hinges of volume 1 repaired, spines very slightly faded, minor bumping to corners

REFERENCE:

Smith II:3

PROVENANCE:

Rt. Hon. Viscount Esher of Watlington Park, Oxfordshire, bookplate; sale of his library at Sotheby's, first portion, 25 March 1946, lot 508, to Marks; Sotheby's, 9 December 2004, lot 62