Bleak House. FIRST EDITION, ATTRACTIVELY BOUND IN TWO VOLUMES.
by DICKENS, Charles
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- Hardcover
- first
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- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bradbury & Evans. London. 1853. Bradbury & Evans. 1853. First edition. Handsomely bound in two volumes. Half green calf, spines decorated in gilt extra. Marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Two volumes: vol. I, xvi, [1]-320; vol. II, 321-624. 40 engraved plates in total including the frontis. and engr. title. Particularly wonderful are the dark plates, mostly in vol. II. First edition points as called for: page 19, line 6 "elgble", page 209, line 23 "chair" instead of hair, page 275, line 22, "counsinship" instead of cousinship, page 529, line 32 "picter" instead of picture. Boards slightly rubbed, prelims foxed, frontis and title page have half circle stains, some plates have foxing to margins but generally a very clean and fresh set. Please contact us for more details.
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- Bookseller
- Addyman Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 99431
- Title
- Bleak House. FIRST EDITION, ATTRACTIVELY BOUND IN TWO VOLUMES.
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- Bradbury & Evans. London. 1853
- Keywords
- FICTION Dickens first edition bleak house
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Addyman Books
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire
About Addyman Books
Addyman Books is based in Hay-on-Wye, the book capital of the world, with almost 30 bookshops in the town, nestled in the Black Mountains of Wales. We have been established since 1986 and have three shops, Addyman Books, Addyman Annexe and Murder & Mayhem. Large general stock. Murder & Mayhem specialises in Detective Fiction, True Crime and Horror.
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Title Page
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- Marbled boards
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- First Edition
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- Edges
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