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Villette. A New Edition. Cheap Edition. BRIGHT COPY IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING
186014084Smith Elder & Co. 1860. 8vo. strongly bound in contemporary half calf pebble-grain dark green cloth boards back with four raised bands ruled in gilt second compartment with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt all other compartments tooled with a lozenge in blind red sprinkled edges green endpapers corners and joints mildly worn and rubbed else a very good bright clean copy. Following the withdrawal of the two-volume second edition for fear of libel in 1857 the work was first issued as a single volume in Smith Elder's 'Cheap Edition' series later in the same year. Smith records that this 1860 impression was issued without advertisements. Bright copy of an early fifth/sixth edition. See Smith pp.143-146; Wise p.33. Smith Elder & Co., hardcover
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