DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). American Notes For General Circulation. London: Chapman and Hall, 1842.

2 volumes, 8vo (197 x 120 mm). 1p. Publisher's advertisement in vol. I, half-titles. (Some occasional spotting or soiling, some minor offsetting.) Original grayish-reddish-brown horizontally-ribbed blind-stamped cloth, spines gilt-lettered (rebacked preserving original spines, extremities sunned, some rubbing); folding case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with nearly all early issue points listed in Smith, including the second page of the vol. I table of contents misnumbered as page xvi and 6pp. of advertisements at the end of vol. II. Dicken's preface to American Notes was removed from the preliminary pages and the original pagination was not immediately altered, as here, in the first state, with p. x incorrectly numbered xvi. In the second state, the preliminaries were reprinted with the correct pagination. The preface was not published during Dickens' lifetime, and first appeared in Forster's biography of Dickens. Eckel, pp. 113-115; Gimbel A66; Smith 2:3.


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