A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
£5,250.00
First edition, second issue
Published by Chapman and Hall, London 1859
Description
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Aa first edition, second issue in book form of A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Original red blind stamped cloth re-cased with a small repair at the top edge of the front endpaper. The spine is rubbed and faded with black mark on the rear board. Bumped and light wear to corners of the boards. Contents clean with occasional foxing including the frontpiece and additional title. Without a publisher’s catalogue, etched frontpiece, additional title and 14 plates by H. K. Browne. p. 213 correctly numbered and signature “b” omitted from the list of the plates. early state with “affecionately” on p.134 and “himsel” on p.166 uncorrected. (Eckel,pp86-90, Smith 1. 13). 8vo 254pp.
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