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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865.
19/20 parts, 8vo. 40 engraved plates including frontispiece and vignette title after Marcus Stone by Dalziel and W.T. Green; “To the Reader” slip tipped in at first text leaf. Original blue-green pictorial wrappers (some light chipping at extreme ends, part 1 with some minor losses to spine panel); vertical full morocco slipcase and chemise. Provenance: Edwin Trevor (neat contemporary ownership signature on upper margin of front cover on some parts).
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, first issue of part 1 without the printer’s imprint on front wrapper, and with the very scarce slip concerning the meaning of the title. Includes every “Our Mutual Friend Advertiser” in each part and nearly every inserted advertisement as listed in Hatton and Cleaver with the only exception in part II which is lacking slip at end. This was Dickens’ fourteenth and final, complete novel. Eckel, p. 94-95; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 343-370; Gimbel A149.