The Mystery of Edwin Drood

by Charles Dickens, S. L. Fildes

£350 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. Crime Mystery FIRST EDITION. Octavo 22 x 15cm , pp.viii; 190 2 . With twelve engravings by Fildes and a frontispiece portrait of Dickens. With the blue-green paper cover of one of the original parts pasted to first blank. Contemporary black half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to a brown label, heavy gilt decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Illustrated bookplate of Ruth

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