Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
Thu, Feb 16, 2023 12:00PM EST
Lot 220
DICKENS, Charles (1812–1870). The Battle of Life. A Love St...
Estimate: $250 - $350
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DICKENS, Charles (1812?1870).?The Battle of Life. A Love Story.?London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Foolscap 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and vignette title by John Thompson after Daniel Maclise, numerous wood engravings in text after Maclise, Leech, Stanfield, and Doyle. Original red horizontally ribbed cloth, blocked in blind and gilt, gilt?stamped spine, all edges gilt (a few tiny spots of rubbing and darkening at extremities, else fine). Provenance: Thomas S. Moch (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of Dickens? fourth Christmas book. FOURTH ISSUE of the vignette title (Todd E1, Eckel 4), with ?A Love Story? etched in viny letters on a scroll carried by a cupid, without the three?line publisher?s imprint. A NEAR SUPERB COPY. Eckel, pp. 127?130; Gimbel A116; Sadlier 681; Smith II:8.
