Bleak House
Author:
DICKENS, CHARLES & BROWNE, H. K. (Illus)
Title:
Bleak House
Publisher:
Bradbury and Evans 1853
Description:
FIRST EDITION, book has first issue points- p.xvi has five line errata, p.19 line 23- 'chair', p275 line 22- 'cousinshp', p.529 line 32- 'preter', super octavo, marbled half leather bound boards, gilt lettering to spine with gilt & blind rule to raised bands, marbled page edges & eps, xvi + 624pp, illus, VG- (heavy scuffing to spine & extrems with moderate surface loss, 2cm cracks to top of spine/hinges, moderate chafing & surface loss to boards, moderate fading & tanning to page edges, moderate cracking to gutters, elegant gift inscription in ink to prelims, heavy foxing to prelims & terminals, varying degrees of foxing to pages throughout, 3cm closed tear to lower edge of ffep at gutter)
Keywords:
modern first editions literature Charles Dickens novels fiction Victorian England Bleak House