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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Master Humphrey's Clock. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. Imperial 8vos. Profusely illustrated with frontispieces and numerous intertextual illustrations. 3 volumes. Iv, 306, [2, blank]; vi, 306; vi, 426 pp. Bound in publisher's full purplish-brown cloth, boards decoratively paneled in blind, front boards with gilt central clock, spines decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, volume I in variant yellow endleaves, the other two volumes in plain endleaves (spines sunned and edgeworn, some rubbing, bumping to boards, several gutters overopened, catalog entries affixed to fp. of volume I, some stitching at gutters in volume II visible and wrinkled, occasional thumbsoiling, foxing in text). Very good. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THIS NOVEL, WHICH ALSO INCLUDES FIRST APPEARANCES OF THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP AND BARNABY RUDGE. Smith I, p. 46-57 pp.