The Battle of Life Charles Dickens Illustrated 1st Edition. 4th Sta

The Battle of Life: A Love Story by Charles Dickens. London: Bradbury & Evans, MDCCCXLVI (1846).
 
Edition Points:  (as mentioned in Smith II.)
pp.20, line 6, the dot over the i in "into" is faint, in some copies only. (present)
pp.40, line 8, d in "sealed" is faint. (present)
pp.50, period at the end of the headline is faint. (present)
pp.67, the "A" in the headline is filled and partially printed in some copies.
pp.72, last line, there is a space in the word too, thus reading "to o".
pp.82, line 1, after the word "times" the comma is clipped. (present)
pp.90, line 7 & 8, unnecessary quotes.
pp.118, line 14, second quotation mark not printed properly in  some copies at the end of the line. (present)
pp.132, last line, the second c in "Clemency" printed weakly in some copies. (present)
pp.169, the number "9" is missing from the page number in one copy.
 
 
A note about the vignette title page variants: 
 
There are four variants of the vignette title page:
Variant 1 has simply printed "A Love Story." text with no embellishments.
Variant 2, second state, has "A Love Story" printed in letters in a banner/scroll.
Variant 3, third state, has the "A Love Story" text printed more elaborately with the banner/scroll being carried by an angel/cupid. The imprint is in one line with no date.
Variant 4, fourth state, has the same design as the third state but is lacking the imprint.
 
Condition: 
Bound in the original publisher's full red cloth binding with blind tooling and gilt lettering to the front cover and spine. The boards are a little dulled/discoloured with some rubbing and bumping to the corners and to the head and tail of the spine. Endpapers free from inscriptions. There is a crack to the inner front hinge but the book remains secure. The contents are age toned but otherwise very good. 
 
The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", coming after The Cricket on the Hearth, followed by The Haunted Man & the Ghost's Bargain.
[Smith II., 8]