A Tale of Two Cities
Chapman & Hall, 1859.
First edition, first state of the text with page 213 mis-paginated. Full late nineteenth century red morocco by Morrell, with gilt rules to covers, raised bands to spine, gilt titles and vignettes to spine compartments, gilt dentelles to turn ins and blue endpapers. Top edge gilt. Page marker ribbon loose to rear. Frontispiece and fourteen full page steel engravings with tissue guards, as well as a vignette title page by H.K.Browne. A very good copy indeed, some wear to joints. Internally, notably clean with just the occasional spot of foxing and three trivial marginal short closed tears.
Eckel, pp. 86-90; Gimbel A142; Sadleir 701; Hatton & Cleaver p. 331.
Stock ID: 46753
£4,500.00
