1853 Bleak House

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound

The first book edition, first printing with issue points according to Eckel 'elgble' to p.19 line 6; 'chair' instead of 'hair' to p.209 line 23; 'counsinship instead of cousinship' to pg.275 line 22. Other edition points inaccessible as the volume is bound in with chapters I-XXXII up to p.320 of 624pp. With the imprint of Bradbury and Evans on vignette title. No half title. 

Originally published in a series of twenty-episodes between 1852 and 1853. Bleak House is one of Charles Dickens' most popular novels, with a vastly complicated plot and an immense cast of characters revolving around the long-running case of Jarndyce vs Jarndyce in the Court of Chancery. 

This novel helped support a reform movement in the judiciary system that led to the enactment of legal reform in the 1870. 

With a frontispiece and additional vignette title page, as well as twenty plates, with only the frontispiece being a dark plate. Collated, complete as called for for the first thirty-two chapters.

Illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne, also known by his pen name ‘Phiz’, English illustrator who illustrated ten of Charles Dickens' books, including 'David Copperfield', and 'Dombey and Son'.