Our Mutual Friend.
“No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot": First Edition of Our Mutual Friend: Dickens' final completed novel
Our Mutual Friend.
DICKENS, Charles.
Item Number: 142437
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865.
First edition in book form of Dickens’ fourteenth and final completed novel. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated by Marcus Stone with forty plates. In very good condition. Armorial bookplate.
"Our Mutual Friend originally appeared in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly parts, the last part forming a double number, from May 1864- November 1865. The first volume was published in book form on January 20, 1865; the second on October 21, 1865. 11s. each." (Smith, Dickens, 15).
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