Product Description
The first full book edition of Dicken's Master Humphrey's Clock, illustrated throughout by Cattermole and Browne.
The first book edition, published in three volumes.
Originally published as a weekly periodical in eighty-eight, weekly parts or installments.
Three volumes, smartly bound in full, diced calf with gilt embossed details.
Marbling to end papers and text block fore edge.
Each work illustrated with a frontispiece and copious in-text engravings.
One of the most popular authors of the Victorian age, Dicken's novels show the grimy side of poverty and prosperity in Victorian England, showing poor social conditions alongside repulsive, yet compelling characters.
Illustrated throughout by George Cattermole and Hablot Knight Browne, also known as Phiz.
Bound in full, diced calf.
Externally, smart.
Some rubbing to extremities and joints.
Light cracking and minor loss in places spine.
Spines marginall faded.
The odd marks to boards.
All hinges starting.
Front hinge volume I strained and fragile with front free working loose.
Rear hinge volume III, strained.
Internally, generally firmly bound.
Pages bright and cleaned with marginal age toning.
Very Good
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