FIRST EDITION OF BLEAK HOUSE

DICKENS, C. [CHARLES].

Bleak House. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne.

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Bound in half calf with four raised bands. Gilt lettering to spine. All 38 plates with tissue guard present. Boards with wear and two plates with marginal discolouring, especially the first two. Otherwise a fine and clean copy.

First edition of Dicken's ninth novel, regarded as being one of his finest and one of the most important in the entire history of English literature. See: Hatton and Cleaver, p. 273. Eckel, p 79.

Order-nr.: 44501