A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

$8,500 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition. Octavo leaves 212 x 133 mm . First edition, bound from the original monthly parts as published from June to December 1859, with the stab-holes visible; this copy with the earliest state of p. 213 misnumbered “113” and the signature “b” present on the list of plates, as preferred by collectors. Bound by Maclehose, Glasgow, in

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