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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 (spines chipped, few rebacked or repaired); morocco-backed folding case. Provenance: John Morris (neat contemporary ownership signature on upper margin of front cover on some parts); Henry Sotheran (bookseller’s catalogue note).
FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL MONTHLY PARTS, with the very scarce slip concerning the meaning of the title. Includes every “Our Mutual Friend Advertiser” in each part and every inserted advertisement as listed in Hatton and Cleaver This was Dickens’ fourteenth and final, complete novel. Eckel, p. 94-95; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 343-370; Gimbel A149.