Master Humphrey’s Clock. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-1841.
First edition in book form.
Three large octavo volumes. [viii], [1]-306; [vi], [1]-306; [vi], [1]-426 pp. Each volume with full page illustrated frontispiece (reckoned within pagination) and many intertextual illustrations. Contemporary half dark blue calf over marbled boards. Spines elaborately tooled in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, red and black gilt morocco lettering labels. Minor wear to corners, light rubbing to bindings, each volume with neat contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper. Intermittent foxing in text. Still, near fine.
Smith, Dickens, pp. 47-57
ID:
3487
$
1,300