First Edition of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"
Mystery of Edwin Drood. With Twelve Illustrations by S.L. Fildes, and a Portrait.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.
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DICKENS, Charles. The Mystery of Edwin Drood. With Twelve Illustrations by S.L. Fildes, and a Portrait. London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.
First edition, bound from the original parts with stab-holes present. With all the internal flaws call for by Smith. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 220 x 145 mm). [viii], 190 pp. Bound without the final leaf of ads and the publisher’s catalogue that some copies have. With thirteen plates by Fildes, including the vignette title, and a frontisportrait of Dickens, “Engraved by J.H. Baker, from a Photograph taken in 1868 by Mason & Co.”
Handsomely rebound in late 19th-century half polished tan calf, over tan cloth boards. Spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Spine with red and blue morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Spine is slightly darkened. Some minor rubbing to corners. Some of the plates have tiny chips in the fore-edge margin from previous stab-holes. According to Smith, "In some copies examined, stab-holes have been detected on the outer margin of the illustrations." Overall a very good copy.
Gimbel. Hatton and Cleaver,. Smith, Dickens, 16.
HBS 69157.
$650.
Price: $650.00
Item #69157