first edition
1882 · London
by DICKENS, CHARLES
London: W. H. Allen & Co, 1882. First Collected Edition. 230 x 146 mm. (9 x 5 3/4"). Volume II lacking title page. Two volumes. Edited, prefaced, and annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd.
Pleasing contemporary scarlet three-quarter morocco over buckram by Jeremiah Larkins (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with central starburst of lancet tools, curling cornerpieces, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original blue cloth spine bound in. ◆Bindings lightly soiled, very minor wear to extremities, gutter open at final page of volume I (though without causing (truncated)
Pleasing contemporary scarlet three-quarter morocco over buckram by Jeremiah Larkins (stamp-signed on verso of front free endpaper), raised bands, spines gilt in compartments with central starburst of lancet tools, curling cornerpieces, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original blue cloth spine bound in. ◆Bindings lightly soiled, very minor wear to extremities, gutter open at final page of volume I (though without causing (truncated)