Lot 118 , Dickens, Charles - The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1st edition, portrait frontis, engraved pictorial, printed titles and 12 plates (by Luke

Dickens, Charles - The Mystery of Edwin Drood, 1st edition, portrait frontis, engraved pictorial, printed titles and 12 plates (by Luke Fildes), advert leaf, rebound red half leather and paper boards, 1870
Estimate £80-100

Binding copy - spine worn and detached, endpapers replaced, slight staining on picture title, markedly on printed, plates mostly clean (1 little frayed along fore edge), some prelims. browning and foxing last 3pp and advert leaf, otherwise reasonable, portrait with tissue guard, Smith 16 - pagination agrees, no.32pp. catalogue (some copies), all flaws listed are uncorrected.


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Sold for £65