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  “I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be": First edition, second impression of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations; one of only 750 copies

  DICKENS, Charles.

  Great Expectations.

  London: Chapman and Hall, 1861.

  First edition, second impression of Dickens' rarest book, one of only 750 copies. Octavo, three volumes bound in full polished calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt-ruled turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Scarce second impression of the first edition, with genuine first issue title pages. Vol. 1 with "recal"  on p. 84, line 6; Vol. 2 with "their" for "her" on p. 162, line 21; Vol. 3 with "raving" for "staving on p. 37, line 25, etc.  With the second impression points as noted in the Clarendon Press Edition, including Vol. I. with a faulty comma after man, p. 5, line 9; no full stop after "robbery" p. 42, line 5;  Vol. II with no full stop affter "gloomily," p.187, line 16,  etc. Bound without half-titles or advertisements. Only 1,000 copies of the first issue and 750 copies of the second were printed and that probably most of the first and more than half of the second (1400 copies in all) were purchased by Mudie’s Select Library. Eckel, pp. 91-93; Sadleir 688; Smith I:14. In very good condition. An exceptional set.

  Price: $15,000.00     Item Number: 149547

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