DICKENS (CHARLES)
The Battle for Life. A Love Story, FIRST EDITION, fourth issue title-page, half-title, engraved frontispiece and additional pictorial title-page after Daniel Maclise, wood-engraved illustrations by Maclise, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and John Leech, 2pp. of advertisements at end, pale yellow endpapers, occasional spotting, publisher's red vertically-ribbed cloth, covers stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt, g.e., worn, lower hinge cracked [Eckel, pp.121-123; Smith 2:7-8], 8vo, Bradbury and Evans, 1846
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Provenance: Miss Hartley, gift inscription from Mr and Mrs Downing, dated 25 February 1850, on front free endpaper.
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