Bleak House The Authentic Edition

by Charles Dickens

$40 · Offered by Biblio

In dust jacket

This is one volume, number 11, from a set of 21 volumes of The Works of Charles Dickens, Bleak House The Authentic Edition. This book lists the date as 1901. This is apparently the English edition since the last page states it was printed in London and Chapman and Hall is printed on the spine. A thick book with untrimmed leaves and gilt top edge. Some staining and loss to the green color but gold lettering and decoration is bright. The spine has a couple of scrapes and a dent. The spine edges are very worn. The corner tips are worn. The fore-edge is foxed. The hinge is cracked mainly at the top on the page that states, "Printed from the edition that was carefully corrected by the author in 1867 and 1868". The next two pages are detaching at the top. The rest of the book is unaffected. The first illustration by Phiz is in color while the other 39 are monochrome. Two tissue guards are creased. The book has some minor stains and smudges. There is no ownership writing on the green end papers or any other writing throughout. Two page corners had been attached to the following page and were torn apart. There is one closed tear about one inch with a similar size open tear. Two pages have newspaper clippings inserted, a poem on Obedience, and a presidential 1912 Thanksgiving proclamation which acid stained pages 301, 302, 509 and 511. The date of this book is listed as 1901.

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall, Charles Scribner's Sons (printed in London)
• Year: 1901
• Edition: The Authentic Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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