Bradbury & Evans

First edition in book form, published in London by Bradbury & Evans in November 1850, shortly after the completion of the 19 monthly parts begun in May 1849. Illustrated with 40 compositions by Hablot Knight Browne, known as Phiz: frontispiece, engraved title and 38 full-page plates.

 

Contemporary English half dark green shagreen with corners. Spine with flat false bands, decorated with gilt rolls across the bands and gilt fillets. Some rubbing. Internally fresh and clean. As is frequently encountered in this edition, the plates show moderate browning and foxing, chiefly around the edges. A faint dampstain to the plate Changes...

First edition with all the features of the first printing: "actresses" line 33 of page 207 of the first volume, chapters 47 and 48 erroneously printed as 48 and 49 in the first volume.
Full grey paper boards, smooth spines decorated with blind fillets and slightly discolored, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Work illustrated by William Makepeace Thackeray, each volume with a frontispiece, a title vignette, 22 plates hors-texte as well as numerous in-text drawings.
Occasional foxing, for each of the 48 plates hors-texte, a placement indication in relation to the text was probably made by the binder so as not to mistake the order of the engravings.
Handsome...

First edition, illustrated with an engraved title with vignette, 39 plates by H. K. Browne including 10 mezzotints, including the frontispiece. All the drawings were executed according to very precise recommendations by Dickens, the mezzotint engravings expressing despair and the dark sides of the novel while the caricatural figures express joy and humor. As with all of Dickens's works, this novel first appeared in serial form (March 1852 to September 1853). First printing points: "elgble" p19, line 6; "chair" p209, line 23; "counsinship" p275, line 22
English binding in half burgundy shagreen with small corners. Spine with false raised bands richly decorated. Brown shagreen title...