A TALE OF TWO CITIES

Chapman and Hall, 1859

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Year of publication

1859

Place of printing

London

Author

Dickens

Publishers

Chapman and Hall

Edition

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. TALE OF TWO CITIES ranks amongst the

Languages

English

First edition

Yes

Description

First edition, First Issue with p. 213 mis-numbered 113 and signature b to the list of illustrations leaf and the required mis-spelling at p. 134. With 16 illustrations by H. K. Browne, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. 8vo, very handsomely bound in antique three-quarter tan calf, the covers with fine marbled paper over the boards, the spine elaborately decorated within panels gilt tooled at the borders and with central gilt ornamental pieces between raised bands, lettered in gilt on contrasting maroon and brown morocco lettering labels, l blue marbled endleaves, a.e.g. viii, list of plates, 254pp. A fine and very handsome copy indeed, the prelims with some browning from long ago.