The Mystery of Edwin Drood

by Charles Dickens

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition, first issue. Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker; title vignette and 12 illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes bound in. viii , 190, 2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rebound half modern brown calf and marbled boards, stamped in gilt on spine. All fore edges marbled, slightly tanned. Light foxing throughout. Two pages advertising various editions of Dickens works at rear. Smith 16; Podeschi, Gimbel Collection A155. Item #376295

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