Collins (Wilkie) No Name
£1,200
London, Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1862.
First edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Original blind tooled red cloth, spine lettered & decorated in gilt.
A very good first edition set in the original cloth of this epic tale of disinheritance and illegitimacy, originally serialised in Charles Dickens’ magazine All the Year Round.
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Some light, marginal damp staining to vol.I & III, one page with closed tear, some other marking; cloth slightly dulled at spines of two vol., some minor bumping, but overall very good.
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