Martin Chuzzlewit

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G - F, original blue-green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and covers stamped in blind, with "London 1844" at the foot. Edgeworn cover with some tearing, corners bent inward with cloth torn. Original pale yellow endpapers intact. Foxing on plates and front matter, most prominently on frontispiece; open binding in a couple of places. First issue points as noted in Smith, including etched plates including frontispiece and title-page vignette by Hablot K. Browne aka "Phiz"; vignette on title-page with amount on sign post transposed to read "100£" and seven studs in the trunk; 14-line errata leaf, 624 pp. Additionally, two sheets of stationary from Jews' College, Tavistock House, Tavistock Square, London -- Dickens' former home -- are slipped into this copy. Now known as the London School of Jewish Studies, Jews' College was founded in 1855 and moved to Tavistock House in 1881, nineteen years after Dickens sold it. The house was demolished in 1901. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-1678060790316

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