Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, 1865, first one-volume edition

DICKENS, CHARLES

Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865

8vo (222 x 143mm.), first one-volume edition, 40 wood-engraved illustrations by Marcus Stone, additional general title within wood-engraved border, title pages for volumes 1 and 2, original olive-green fine-diaper cloth decorated in blind, covers with frame with scroll-like designs in corners enclosing globe-shaped design at centre, spine with globe designs and lettered in gilt, minor foxing at beginning and end, spine sunned and slightly stained, slight bubbling to cloth on upper cover

The design on the binding for this one-volume edition is similar in design to that used for the first book editions of Little Dorrit and David Copperfield (see lots 169 and 146); another example is the variant binding for Dombey and Son (lot 137).

REFERENCE:

cf Smith I:16

PROVENANCE:

Sir John Brown (1816-1896), of Endcliffe Hall, Sheffield, founder of the famous Atlas steelworks, bookplate; later ink inscription on front endpaper