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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Browne, Hablot Knight ('Phiz'). Volume I: Front joint split two inches along base, one inch loss to back strip at spine base, some loss to spine head, front hinge starting, ink gift note on front free endpaper. Volume II: Some loss to spine head, front hinge starting, ink name on front free endpaper. Both volumes: Spine faded. 1898 Hard Cover. xvi, 524, [2]; viii, [2], 503 pp. 8vo. Complete in two hardcover volumes. Original red cloth, gilt titles and author's device, gilt top page ridge. Original illustrations protected by tissue guards. Introduction & notes by Andrew Lang, a Scottish poet, novelist, and literary critic best known for his collections of folk and fairy tales. A body is found in the Thames and identified as that of John Harmon, a young man recently returned to London to receive his inheritance. Were he alive, his father's will would require him to marry Bella Wilfer, a beautiful,… Read More

London: Chapman & Hall, 1864. First edition. Wraps. Good + overall. In the original monthly parts, dated May 1864 - November 1865. 8vo, twenty numbers bound in nineteen. At the end of Part 19/20 is inserted 8pp for "Volume I", the half-title, title page, contents page and illustrations page. Bound in original green decorated wrappers, price 1s. Most issues in very good condition, although the 1st and last are slt. chipped & a little dusty, with some archival repair. A very good unrestored copy overall. Forty woodcut plates by Marcus Stone. Hatton and Cleaver, 345-70. Smith I, 15. Missing a number of advertisements sighted in Hatton & Hall. Still a desirable copy of an important Dickens serial book published prior to the bound edition.

20 parts in 19, as issued. First issue of part 1 without the printer's imprint on front wrapper, wood engraved frontispiece and 39 plates after Marcus Stone by Dalziel and W.T. Green, part 1 lacks Thorley's 4 pages of ads, part 6 lacks Armadale slip and Norton's Pills 4 pages of ads, part 7 with Thorley's Farmer's Almanack duplicated at front of ads, part 14 lacks Mappin Webb & Co. 4 pages of ads., part 18 lacks Norton's Pills and Liverpool & London & Globe ads, but with 8 pages Chapman & Hall ads not called for, part 19/20 with additional 2 ads for John F. Dunn's City Book Mark each 2 pages inserted at front and back, all other slips and advertisements as called for, Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original green wrappers. House in two red enclosures with gilt letter to spine and marbled end boards. (Hatton & Cleaver pp.343-370) First edition.
Our Mutual Friend, written in 1864–1865, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage… Read More

London [May 1864-November 1865]: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. Original Wraps. In the original monthly parts, 20 parts in 19. Original green printed wrappers; ALL wrappers are correct. ALL the ads, slips and Advertisers called for by Hatton & Cleaver are present, except for the rare ad "The Economic Life Assurance Society" following the plates in part 14 (known in only a few copies). FIRST ISSUE of the wrappers, without the imprint at the foot of front wrapper of part 1, and with the FIRST ISSUE TEXT, with the misspelling "pricipal" in part 14, page 115, line 38. In the Advertiser of part 10, Hatton & Cleaver states, "In a few copies seen, p. 13 was misprinted 31." The present copy has this misprint. Part 17 with the Advertiser partly unopened. The plates are very good to fine; the text and wrappers are clean and bright. Laid into part 12 is an autograph note, in pencil by Dickens Bibliographer Thomas Hatton: "M. F. / 12 / f. cover spots - / wants b. cover" in reference to another part 12. Several… Read More