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Two Finely Bound Dickens First Editions

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Title: The Chimes [&] The Battle of Life
Author: Dickens, Charles
Description: The Chimes: A Goblin Story…"175, [1] pp. Half-title. Engraved frontispiece and additional title plus text illustrations. First Edition, second state, with ""Chapman & Hall"" printed below the cloud (on bottom margin) on the additional title. (Smith Vol. II, 5 Sadleir 683). Chapman & Hall, 1845. * The Battle of Life. [8], 175, [1] pp. With wood engravings after Richard Doyle, John Leech, Daniel Maclise & Clarkson Stanfield
Heading: steel-engraved frontispiece & added title after Maclise. First Edition, fourth state with sub-title in a scroll on the engraved title. (Smith Vol. II, 8Place Published: Sadleir 681). Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Together, 2 volumes. 6¼x4, both uniformly bound in recent full crushed green morocco, ruled in gilt, spines tooled and lettered in gilt, each with gilt-lettered red morocco spine label, raised bands, matching new endpapers, all edges gilt."
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