Lot 120 , Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations, 1st edition (early issue), 3 vols, with an engraved portrait (not called-for) of the dedicatee (

Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations, 1st edition (early issue), 3 vols, with an engraved portrait (not called-for) of the dedicatee (Chauncy Hare Townshend) placed opposite the dedication page, later 19th century green half morocco and marbled boards, gilt decorated and panelled spines lettered direct, gilt edges and marbled endpapers (by Samuel Tout), cr. 8vo., 1861
Estimate £800-1,200

Good looking set, front free endpaper x 2, initial blanks loose vol I, spines mellowed to brown, without the publisher's 32pp catalogue, text with only a few marginal marks, generally clean, all vols with bk label of Robert Cram Bacon (pasted over and obscuring another), with the commemorative birth centenary aongside, the engraved portrait from a photograph, Smith 14 - with all 13 'flaws' from vols 1 and 2 present, the first 6 (of 12) from vol 3 (the latter 6 corrected), no half titles were issued for this title, pagination as Smith details, the binding has reduced the page size to 18.9 x 11cms (from 19.7 x 12.4cm)



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