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Bleak House

Title: Bleak House / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.
Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Publication: New York : Harper & Brothers, [1852]-1853.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	Arents BIP (Dickens, C. Bleak 1853a) 99-229	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KL (Dickens, C. Bleak House) 2 copies	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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20 pts. in 19 (2 v. ([v]-xvi, 936, 6, 2 p., [38] leaves of plates)) : ill., port.; 20 cm.

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Note

Each part (no.) in the original buff paper covers, as issued monthly (the last a double no.). Title pages and other preliminaries in pt. 19/20. Publisher's advertisements on p. [4] of covers.
Originally published: London : Bradbury and Evans, [1852]-1853.
Publisher's advertisements: 6, 2 p. at end.
Illustrations: 37 prints : wood engraving ; full-page. Copies of the etchings by H.K. Browne in the original ed., engraved by Lossing-Barritt. Printed on tinted paper. -- 1 print : steel engraving ; full-page. Port. of Dickens, engraved by T. Philybrowne after a painting by D. Maclise.

Indexed In (note)

Wilkins, W.G. First and early American editions of Dickens
Carr, C. VanderPoel Dickens
Podeschi, J.B. Dickens

Call Number

*KL (Dickens, C. Bleak House).

OCLC

41489929
NYPGR41489929-B

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Title

Bleak House / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.

Imprint

New York : Harper & Brothers, [1852]-1853.

Indexed In:

Wilkins, W.G. First and early American editions of Dickens, p. 29-30

Carr, C. VanderPoel Dickens, B238

Podeschi, J.B. Dickens, A132

Local Note

Arents copy: Publisher's advertisements on p. [4] of covers dated April 1852 in pts. 1-2. Advertisements for copy described by Carr vary for nos. 5, 12 and 17.

Copy 1 in *KL: Incomplete: Nos. 2, 5-12, 14-15, 17-18 only.

Copy 2 in *KL: Bound in 2 v., with original covers bound in at end of each vol.

Arents copy: Part no. on pts. 9, 12-17 and 19/20 altered in ms. from 6, 1, 3-7 and 19. Provenance: Sarah K. Dalton, F.S. Williams (inscriptions on front cover of pts. 15 and 16 respectively).

Arents copy partly unopened.

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Local Subject

Dalton, Sarah K. Provenance.

Williams, F. S. Provenance.

Added Author

Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882. Illustrator

Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870. Illustrator

Phillibrown, Thomas. Engraver

Lossing & Barritt. Engraver

Research Call Number

*KL (Dickens, C. Bleak House).

Arents BIP (Dickens, C. Bleak 1853a) 99-229

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