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Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, May 1864-November 1865....
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Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, May 1864-November 1865.20 parts in 19, 8vo. Half-titles, frontispiece and 39 wood-engraved plates after Marcus Stone by Dalziel and W. T. Green. Original green pictorial printed wrappers; quarter morocco folding case.
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS of Dickens' final completed novel. First issue of Part 1 without the printer's imprint on front wrapper and with slip addressed to the reader. With the "Our Mutual Friend Advertiser" in each part, and containing all but one of the ads and slips noted in Hatton & Cleaver, except lacking the rare "Economic Life Assurance Society" advertisement after the plates in Part 14 (but does contain the November "Economic Life" ad following first leaf of text for Part 19/20 as called for).
Condition: Some chipping and wear to spines, most with small repairs or restorations; covers of Parts 1 and 19/20 with some chipping and fraying at edges (Part 1 with upper corner price lost, and original front cover replacement laid in); other parts with occasional wear, minor chipping and soiling; most parts having belonged to the same contemporary owner with her name written neatly in ink or pencil on upper margins ("Miss Grey"). Plates generally clean, and internally fine.
References: Eckel, pp. 94-95; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 343-370; Yale/Gimbel A149.
Provenance: The Library of a Minnesota Collector.
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2025 December 15 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6323 (go to Auction Home page)
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