English Literature, History, Science, Children’s Books and Illustrations
English Literature, History, Science, Children’s Books and Illustrations
Lot Closed
December 8, 03:45 PM GMT
Estimate
500 - 1,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
DICKENS, CHARLES
The Battle of Life. A Love Story. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846
8vo (165 x 105mm.), FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, vignette title-page in fourth state and 11 other illustrations by Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Richard Doyle and John Leech, half-title, advertisement leaf at end, original deep red vertically-ribbed cloth, covers with embossed borders in blind, that on the upper cover enclosing a large central gilt pictorial title design, spine gilt, pale yellow endpapers, all edges gilt, covers lightly soiled,backstrip lightly bumped and chipped at head and foot, corners lightly bumped
Charles Dickens's fourth 'Christmas Book'.
LITERATURE:
Smith II: 8
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