Bleak House
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. H. K. Browne [Engraved Plates and Frontispiece]. First Edition, First State/Issue. Finely Bound by Birdsall, Northampton & London, in Full Blue Calf, Gilt Tooling, Five Raised Bands. A Very Good Book, Beautifully Bound in Full Blue Calf by Birdsall. Book is moderately shelf worn to extremities with rubbing to corners, crown, and tail. Front hinge is starting with a 2 inch section at crown having split. Calf shows toning on front board at top. Gilt tooling is fading in places. Text block is luxuriously gilt to all edges [A.E.G.]. Lovely marbled endpapers. Frontispiece, Half Title, and Title Leaves have a faint vertical stain affecting an inch or so strip near fore edge for the top half of the leaves. Text is unmarked. Binding remains square and is tight excepting front hinge. All 40 plates present. First Issue points present to pages 19, 209, and 275. Hardcover. Octavo. [xvi], [1], 2-624pp. Very Good. Item #567
Price: $3,200.00