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Charles Dickens – Bleak House – First UK Edition 1853
£750.00
First Edition, bound from the original parts, half-title present; octavo, pp. 624. Has all three typographical errors present in the first issue: p.19, line 6: “elgble”; p. 209, line 23: “chair” instead of “hair”; and p. 275, line 22: “counsinship” instead of “cousinship.” A very good contemporary bound copy. No inscriptions.
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First Edition, bound from the original parts, half-title present; octavo, pp. 624. Has all three typographical errors present in the first issue: p.19, line 6: “elgble”; p. 209, line 23: “chair” instead of “hair”; and p. 275, line 22: “counsinship” instead of “cousinship.” A very good contemporary bound copy. No inscriptions.