OUR MUTUAL FRIEND.
first edition Hardcover
1865 · London
by DICKENS, CHARLES.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. Marbled boards. All edges marbled. Dark brown leather spine labels, gilt borders. New brown endpapers. Two volumes bound in one. With half-title to Volume 1 bound-in. Forty plates by Marcus Stone, all in excellent condition, likely having been washed at some previous time. First issue points as described in Smith 15. Bound from the original parts, with stab holes easily identified. Three-line slip tipped-in to p.1 of the first volume (frequently absent). Quite a kindly-restored copy. The title first appeared in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly parts from May 1864-November 1865. Volume 1 was published in book form on Januart 20, 1865, Volume 2 on October 21, 1865. 320-309pp.. First English Edition. Recent 1/2 Brown Morocco. Essentially No Wear./No Jacket.. Illus. by Marcus Stone. Octavo. (Inventory #: 012084)