DICKENS | Bleak House, 1853, first book edition

DICKENS, CHARLES

Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853

8vo (218 x 138mm.), FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, frontispiece, vignette title-page and 38 plates by or after Hablot K. Browne "Phiz", half-title, contemporary full olive levant morcco gilt, inside edges gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, Part II original upper and lower wrappers bound in, occasional spotting of plates, some slight rubbing to binding extremities

LITERATURE:

Smith I: 10; Eckel pp. 79-85