DICKENS, CHARLES Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, March 1852 - September 1853 8vo (224 x 140mm.), FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, 40 plates by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz", of which 10 are the 'Dark Plates', the majority of advertisments and slips present as called for by Hatton Cleaver (lacking all those in parts 1, 14, 17 and 18 - 18 with green slip only), lacking a further 29pp advertisements and 12 slips, 2pp and 2 slips present in duplicate, slips light or dark green as called for, original printed blue pictorial wrappers, brown cloth collector's folding case, plates generally heavily browned and and some frayed at edges, wrappers generally soiled, chipped or torn at edges, several with covers loose, some heavily restored, lacking backstrips or with backstrips chipped with loss Bleak House is rare in the original parts complete with all advertisements and slips. This was the first of Dickens' publications to be issued in parts with the wrappers printed on blue paper. Critics were not entirely kind with their reviews of the work, being unhappy with the move away from humour towards 'the grotesque and contemptible' - the public, however, took no notice and sales climbed steadily, especailly in America. LITERATURE: Hatton and Cleaver pp. 275-304; Eckel pp. 79-85
DICKENS, CHARLES Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, March 1852 - September 1853 8vo (224 x 140mm.), FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL 19/20 PARTS, 40 plates by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz", of which 10 are the 'Dark Plates', the majority of advertisments and slips present as called for by Hatton Cleaver (lacking all those in parts 1, 14, 17 and 18 - 18 with green slip only), lacking a further 29pp advertisements and 12 slips, 2pp and 2 slips present in duplicate, slips light or dark green as called for, original printed blue pictorial wrappers, brown cloth collector's folding case, plates generally heavily browned and and some frayed at edges, wrappers generally soiled, chipped or torn at edges, several with covers loose, some heavily restored, lacking backstrips or with backstrips chipped with loss Bleak House is rare in the original parts complete with all advertisements and slips. This was the first of Dickens' publications to be issued in parts with the wrappers printed on blue paper. Critics were not entirely kind with their reviews of the work, being unhappy with the move away from humour towards 'the grotesque and contemptible' - the public, however, took no notice and sales climbed steadily, especailly in America. LITERATURE: Hatton and Cleaver pp. 275-304; Eckel pp. 79-85
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