Lot 1136 , Dickens, Charles - Little Dorrit. 1st Edition. engraved pictorial and printed titles, frontispiece and 38 plates (by H.K. Browne)

° Dickens, Charles - Little Dorrit. 1st Edition. engraved pictorial and printed titles, frontispiece and 38 plates (by H.K. Browne); old gilt ruled green half calf and marbled boards, gilt decorated panelled spine with red label (by Adnitta and Haunton, Shrewsbury). Bradbury and Evans. 1857; Dickens, Charles - Our Mutual Friend 1st edition, 2 vols (in One). frontispieces and 38 plates (by Marcus Stone); old half morocco and marbled boards. Chapman and Hall, 1865. (2)
£120-160

Condition:
Dorrit - sl. corners wear but good bdng, some spotting frontis and pict. title, a lt. intermittent elsewhere (mostly plts. marginally), text clean (save2/3 prelims. and text pp.1 and 2). pp. xiv,625 (no half title iss.) flaws - mostly uncorrected, eg. pp. 200 "very (no end quotes); 232 single quote only (end of line); 317 William; 371 B2 signature/ corrected in later copies); 513 Mistress Affery. Smith 12; Mutual Friend - wear at corners, spine lt. rubbed head/spine but good overall, back inner joint, ink ownership erased from title, plts and text mostly clean. xi,320+(111). 319pp, lacks half title v.2, ink ownership head of text p.(i) - Henry (Sylvan?) Leigh Hunt. Flaws - mostly uncorrected, eg. vol.1 pp.276 no apostrophe in dont; 195 - no period after headline. vol.2 pp.66 no dotted i its; 86 no quotes; 115 principle. Smith 15.