DICKENS | Our Mutual Friend, 1864-1865, first edition in parts

DICKENS, CHARLES

Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, May 1864-November 1865

8vo (222 x 141mm.), FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, 40 wood-engraved illustrations by Marcus Stone, complete with all the advertisements and slips as called for by Hatton and Cleaver, including THE RARE SLIPS IN PARTS 14 and 19/20, original green pictorial wrappers, parts 1-3, 5-5, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18 partly unopened, preserved in cloth chemise, dark green polished morocco gilt collector's case, occasional light spotting, occasional slight loss or neat repair to backstrips and edges covers, OTHERWISE A VERY NICE CLEAN SET

THE FIRST EDITION IN EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD CONDITION WITH ALL ADVERTISMENTS AND SLIPS, INCLUDING RARE ONES, OF DICKENS' LAST FULLY-COMPLETED NOVEL.

LITERATURE:

Hatton and Cleaver pp. 345-370

PROVENANCE:

Alain de Suzannet, bookplate, his sale Sotheby's, lot 129 22 November 1971