Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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DICKENS, Charles (1812?1870). Bleak House. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. 8vo. Half?title, engraved additional title?page, engraved frontispiece, 38 illustrations by J.K. Browne (?Phiz?), with the 10 ?dark? plates (marginal browning to plates, offsetting from frontispiece). Modern quarter brown morocco, marbled sides, raised bands, compartments gilt. Provenance: F.W. Barlow (neat contemporary signature on title?page); Old Curiosity Shop purchase label laid in. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM published on 12 September 1853. Eckel, pp. 64?66; Gimbel A154; Smith I:10.