Marrin's Bookshop

Synopsis

With twelve illustrations by s. l. fildes and a portrait.

Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo., 8.75 X 6 inches. vii + [i] + 190 pp. + [2] pp. publisher's list, Charles Dickens's Works. Bound in original green cloth, gilt, decorated in gilt and black, with gilt block; new pastedown endpapers with original spine. A little wear to extremities, including head and tail of spine, slight darkening of spine and edges and some foxing of preliminaries, edges and margins; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece, engraved vignette title page and by 12 engraved plates. Dickens's unfinished last novel. This first edition has the primary binding with the sawtooth border. The copy is unusual in having two pages of advertisements, whereas Smith notes no pages or thirty two pages for the primary binding version. (Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, p. 111-117).