The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

Dickens, Charles

Verlag: Chapman and Hall (London); Charles Scribner’s Sons (New York), London and New York, 1901

Beschreibung

8vo (20.5 x 14.5 cms). [4], v-xvi, 715, plates. Green ribbed cloth; gilt lettering and decoration to upper board and spine; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Green endpapers, the front and back pastedowns showing Dickens aged, respectively, 27 and 58. Coloured frontispiece with tissue guard captioned in red; 38 other plates in black and white, all with tissue guards captioned in red, plus what is described as a ?vignette title? facing the frontispiece (seemingly the facsimile of an undated title page from an earlier Chapman and Hall edition). Title page printed in red and black. Author?s preface. Volume VI of The Authentic Edition, ?printed from the edition that was carefully corrected by the author in 1867 and 1868?. Not dated. 1901 is generally given as the date of publication of the Authentic Edition, although it appears that its 21 volumes were published over a period of several years (1901-6 according to the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature). CONDITION. Good. Covers bright and showing only very moderate signs of wear. Much foxing to the fore edges and to the first and last few leaves, with sporadic foxing elsewhere. Otherwise very good; all plates and tissue guards present. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000315

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

Verlag: Chapman and Hall (London); Charles Scribner?s Sons (New York), London and New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1901

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Phiz

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket