BLEAK HOUSE With Illustrations by H. K. Browne

FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION 8vo. dark green morocco hardback with raised bands, gilt to spine and decorative gilt to boards. Gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers. xvi, 624pp., illustrated with 39 engraved plates including frontispiece, and vignette to title page. PLUS blue paper covers and 20pp. advertisements (Bleak House Advertiser) from the April 1852 issue of original monthly softcover instalments of Bleak House bound in at end. Oval b/w portrait of Dickens and small cutting from a bookseller's catalogue pasted to verso of ffep. No other markings or inscriptions. p.553 has been torn and repaired at some point in the past. 9 of the plates are