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Tale of Two Cities
185968305First Edition First Issue of "A Tale of Two Cities" DICKENS Charles. BROWNE Hablot Knight illustrator. A Tale of Two Cities. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Chapman and Hall 1859. First edition first issue. With all eight of Smith's internal flaws necessary for the first issue present including page 213 misnumbered 113. Octavo 8 3/16 x 5 3/16 inches; 207 x 132 mm. x 1-254 pp. Sixteen inserted plates including frontispiece and engraved vignette title by Browne 'Phiz'. Without the publisher's catalog bound at the end. Half green morocco over green linen cloth boards bound by Bayntun. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Spine sunned to brown. Some occasional minor spots. Some light offsetting from plates. Plate facing page 150 with a closed one-inch tear. Overall a very good copy. A Tale of Two Cities was first serialized in DickensÃs periodical All the Year Round from April 30-November 26 1859. Its appearance in monthly parts July-December 1859 and book form mark DickensÃs return to his old publishers Chapman and Hall after a long stay with Bradbury and Evans. The extremely large audience for the novel in All the Year Round however left less than the usual demand for the parts issue and at first for the book both of which are now quite rare. This title also marks the authorÃs final collaboration with Phiz DickensÃs most evocative and most sympathetic illustrator. Hatton and Cleaver 33lff. Smith I 13. HBS 68305. $2750 Chapman and Hall hardcover books
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