Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection
Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection
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September 24, 03:31 PM GMT
Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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DICKENS, CHARLES
The Old Curiosity Shop. London: Chapman and Hall, 1841
8vo (260 x 166mm.), FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, BOUND FROM THE WEEKLY PARTS, illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne, advertisement as called for, pp. 271 and 269 bound out of order, moderate olive green fine-diaper cloth with blind stamping (Smith's secondary binding variant), spine gilt, minor spotting, tear to margin of p. 245, spine sunned, bumped
The Old Curiosity Shop was first published in this separate volume on December 15, 1941, bound from portions of Master Humphrey's Clock.
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Smith I:6A