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Bleak House With Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne. 1853 First Edition.
by DICKENS, Charles:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Bradbury & Evans, 1853 1st edition. Hardback 8vo. approx 8.5 x 6 inches. Halfbound green polished calf with marbled paper to boards, gilt banding to spine with gilt lettered leather spine label. Grey endpapers. Speckled page edges. Deighton Binding. In very good condition. Some rubbing and bumps to spine, some rubbing to boards and corners / edges. Binders label to corner of front endpaper “Deighton, Worcester.” Neat inscription to following prelim “George Still Clifton, Ripple Rectory 1850.” There is some mild foxing to plates, but overall very clean and bright compared to most examples of this age, and many plates still remain very clean with only some minor spots around edges. Complete with issue points (see additional notes). Else a very good clean and tight 1st edition. 624pp. Illustrated Frontis., pict.hf.title & 38 B&W etched plates by H.K. Browne. With first issue points, as identified by Eckel: 'elgble' to page 19 line 6, 'chair' to page 209 line 23, 'counsinship' to page 275 line 22, and 'picter' to page 529 line 32.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94766
- Title
- Bleak House With Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne. 1853 First Edition.
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Bradbury & Evans, 1853 1st edition
- Keywords
- ENGLISH LITERATURE DICKENS, Charles: Bleak house, first edition, 1st ed, 1853, leather, fine binding, illustrated, Hablot K. Browne,
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
Glossary
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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