First edition in book form of Dickens' Master
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Author: Dickens, Charles
Title: Master Humphrey's Clock
Place Published: London
Publisher:Chapman and Hall
Date Published: 1840-41
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3 vols. (Large 8vo), contemporary dark green quarter morocco, dark green paper boards, gilt decorated and lettered spines. Three frontispieces and numerous woodcut illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne and decorated initials in the text. First Edition in book form, preceded by the serial issue and the parts issue.
Gimbel A51; NCBEL III, 794. The weekly serial publication format of Master Humphrey‘s Clock was an experiment by Dickens and Chapman and Hall, but after The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge appeared in the series, they returned to the monthly parts issue format. Master Humphrey‘s Clock had the unusual distinction of appearing in three formats: 88 weekly serial parts, 20 monthly parts and in book form, three volumes in cloth.
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