First edition of Dickens´s The Chimes
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FIRST EDITION OF DICKENS´S THE CHIMES. DICKENS, CHARLES. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In. London, Chapman and Hall, 1845.
8vo. 171 x 115 mm. (8), 175, (1) pp. Engraved frontispiece and engraved extra title. Illustrated. Publisher´s red cloth with gilt and embossed decorations, all edges gilt. Spine extremities worn and minor cracks in rear hinge. A few minor stains. Faint damp in bottom margin ending on p. 26. Exlibris of Gotthard Elverson on front board inside. Presentation in ink on front fly leaf, dated December 29th 1844 (!).
Eckel pp. 116-118, Smith II:5.
Dickens second Christmas book.
First edition, first state with the publisher´s imprint within the illustration on the vignette title page.
Illustrations by D. Maclise, R. Doyle, J. Leech and C. Satnfield.
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Auktionsnummer:
584964
Datum:
2018-11-06