FIRST EDITION Bleak House-Charles Dickens. First Impression
Title: Bleak House
Author: Charles Dickens.
Publisher: Bradbury & Evans: London.
Published Date: 1853.
Pagination: xiv; 624, 39 plates.
Condition: Very good. Collated complete.
This is a first edition, first impression of Charles Dickens' Bleak House.
With the following first edition points as called for: page 19, line 6 "elgble" instead of eligible, page 209, line 23 "chair" instead of hair, page 275, line 22, "counsinship" instead of cousinship, page 529, line 32 "picter" instead of picture.
The original serialisation ran from March 1852 to September 1853 across twenty issues. This volume is bound from the original parts, with small stamp holes to the gutter. Each issue cost one shilling, though to the final double issue which cost two shillings. Bound in a smart half leather with gilt lettering to the spine. With a frontispiece, engraved title page, and thirty-eight full-page plates, including the ten dark plates. Collated complete.
The boards are in very good condition. There is some wear to the outer edge of the front board, scuffing to the front and rear boards and light rubbing/bumping to the extremities. Plain endpapers with an ownership label to the front pastedown. Significant browning to the preliminary pages and full page illustrations, as is common. The contents are otherwise lightly age toned with some light intermittent foxing throughout.
