DICKENS’ BLEAK HOUSE, IN ORIGINAL PARTS AND SCARCE ORIGINAL BLUE WRAPPERS
DICKENS, Charles. Bleak House. London, 1852-53. Twenty parts in 19, as issued.
Scarce first edition in original parts and wrappers of Dickens' ambitious, bracing masterpiece, with 40 engraved illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), including frontispiece and nine other dramatic "dark plates," as well as vignette title page. An excellent copy in unrestored original blue paper wrappers, with most ads present. $9000.
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