The Battle of Life. A Love Story.

by DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870).

£1,450 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. [Christmas story] FIRST EDITION, second state engraved title-page. Scarce. Octavo (17 x 11cm), pp.[8] 175 [3]. With thirteen engraved illustrations by various artists, including a frontispiece and vignette title-page by Daniel Maclise. Publisher's red ribbed cloth, border ornamentation blocked in blind to boards. Pictorial designs..... More

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