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Dickens / 1852 -1853 / Bleak House (Safe 4, 103951) Octavo. Twenty parts in nineteen, each in publisher's original blue printed wrappers (a bit weary). Most plates foxed, except in Parts IV, XII, XIII, and XVI (Parts IV and XII with minor faint dampstaining). Offsetting to plates in Parts V-VIII and XIII (faint). A few parts with ownership inscriptions to front wrapper. Part VII with embossed stamp to front wrapper. Part VIII with rear ad sticking to rear wrapper. Part X with final ad torn with loss. Part XII with final slip torn with loss and a few rear ad leaves loose. Part XVII hinge cracking at plates. All plates present. Part I lacking 2 pp. ads in rear on pink paper. Part II lacking Bleak House Advertiser pp. 3-4 and first 2 pp. of 4 pp. Waterlow & Sons ads. Part III lacking 4 pp. Waterlow & Sons ads. Part IV lacking pp. 1-8 of Bleak House Advertiser, at rear 2 pp. of Darton's Publications ads, and rear slip; with wrong rear inside wrapper ("MAY FLOWERS", as in Part III). Part VI lacking 3 advertisements slips and 6 pp. rear ads "The Oak"; with wrong rear inside wrapper ("MARCH GALES" as in Part XIII); Part VII lacking pp. 1-10 of Bleak House Advertiser, first and last slips, and 2 pp. Atlas Fire and Life Insurance Office ads. Part VIII lacking both slips. Part IX in Part X wrapper (number corrected in ink). Part X lacking 16 pp. Bleak House Advertiser, final 2 pp. of Bradbury and Evans ads , pp. 7-12 of George Cox ads, 2 pp. W. Mott ad (the latter two with stubs remaining). Part XI lacking Bleak House Advertiser (stubs remain), pink slip following Advertiser, rear ads, and rear slips. Part XII with two copies of 4 pp. Partridge and Cozens ads. Part XIII with 8 pp. variant of rear Waterlow ads (same as Hatton and Cleaver's Variant C, but without "S" on front p.). Part XIV lacking slip to follow plates, rear W. & A.K. Johnston ad, and Frank Merryweather slip; Waterlow ad bound after Mott ad. Part XV lacking slip to follow plates and 8 pp. rear ad slip. Part XVI without 8 pp. rear slip ads. Part XIX/XX Part XIX/XX in wrapper for Part VIII; lacking 4 pp. of John Cassel ads at rear. Part I: 24, 32, 8 pp. (2 plates); Part II: 2, 5-16, 2, [2, blue slip], 33-64, 8, [10, ads], [2, yellow slip] pp., (2 plates); Part III: 16, [2, blue slip], 46-96, [4, ads], [2, ads], [2, white slip] pp., (2 plates); Part IV: 9-12, [2, white slip], [2, green slip], 97-128, [2, ads], [4, ads], [6, ads], [4, ads] pp., (2 plates); Part V: 12, [2, green slip], 129-160, 4, [8, ads], [4, ads], [2, white slip] pp., (2 plates); Part VI: 8, 161-192, 2 pp., (2 plates); Part VII:11-12, 193-224, [4, ads], [2, pink slip], 4, [8, ads], [2, ads], [2, ads] pp., (2 plates); Part VIII: 12, 225-256, [2, ads], [2, ads] pp., (2 plates); Part IX: 8, [2, "An accident having happened to the Plate." slip], [2, ad slip], 257-288, 8, [2, ads], [4, ads] pp., (1 plate); Part X: [2, ads], [2, white slip], 289-320, 6, [2, ads], [2, ads] pp., (3 plates); Plate XI: [2, green slip], 321-352 pp., (2 plates); Plate XII: 16, [2, green slip], 353-384, [2, ads], [8, 4 pp. Partridge and Cozens ads duplicated], [2, ads], [2, white slip] pp., (2 plates); Plate XIII: 16, [2, pink slip], [2, green ads], 385-416, [8, slips], [2, ads], 8 pp., (2 plates); Part XIV: 16, [2, ads], 417-448, [2, green slip], [2, ads], [2, ads], 4, [2, white slip] pp., (2 plates); Part XV: 12, 449-480, [4, ads], [2, ads], 4 pp., (2 plates); Part XVI: 12, [2, green slip], 481-512, [8, ads], [2, white slip] pp., (2 plates); Part XVII: 12, [2, green slip], 513-544, 4, [2, ads], [2, green slip] pp., (2 plates), Part XVIII: 8, [2, green slip], 545-576, [2, light blue slip], 8, [2, ads] pp., (2 plates), Part XIX/XX: [2, yellow slip ad], 20, 577-624, xvi, 16, [2, blue slip ad], [2, ads], [12, ads] pp., (4 plates). First edition in original parts "The children in the lanes here, say he has sold himself to the devil. I don t know what he can have done .
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