Lot 3347 , Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. With illustrations by "Phiz" [Hablot Knight Browne]. London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, 1844.

Dickens, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. With illustrations by "Phiz" [Hablot Knight Browne]. London: Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, 1844. 8vo (22 x 14cm), contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt with black label lettered "Martin Chuzzlewit" in gilt. Collation: half-title; engraved additional pictorial title with double vignette illustrations; printed title page; dedication leaf to Miss [Angela] Burdett-Coutts; preface; contents, pp. x–xii; list of plates (38, complete); leaf headed "Errata"; pp. 1–624, first text leaf signed "B" at foot.
£60-80

Condition:
Binding worn and rubbed, extremities scuffed with some loss to marbled paper, joints tender. Text pages largely clean with light scattered spotting throughout; the plates more heavily affected, with noticeably heavier foxing and staining to the plate leaves than to the letterpress. Complete with all 38 plates called for.

Sold for £35