DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). Our Mutual Friend, London, 1865, 2 vols., 8vo, 40 wood-engraved plates by Marcus Stone, contemporary morocco-backed cloth. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. With 4 other books by the same author, FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM. (6)

DICKENS, Charles (1812-70).  Our Mutual Friend. London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. 2 volumes, 8vo (213 x 135mm). Half titles, 2 wood-engraved frontispieces and 38 plates by Marcus Stone, without the 3-line slip in vol. one and without advertisements [as often] (occasional light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary red morocco-backed pebbled cloth boards, spines gilt, marbled endpapers (extremities rubbed). Provenance: "Mr Turner" (old signature on half title of vol. one). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, EARLY ISSUE of the author's last completed novel, with "priciple" for "principle" 14-lines from the bottom of p.115 in vol. II. An original green printed pictorial wrapper is bound-in at the front of each volume. The first is numbered and dated "No. 1. October, 1865"; the second "No. 4. August, 1864." Both are priced at 1s. Eckel pp.94-95; Gimbel A150; Hatton and Cleaver pp.345-370; Smith I, 15; Woolf 1809. With 4 other books by Charles Dickens, namely The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (London, 1844), The Personal History of David Copperfield (London, 1850), Bleak House (London, 1853) and Little Dorrit (London, 1857), all FIRST EDITIONS IN BOOK FORM bound in contemporary half calf. (6) 

Condition Report:
Little Dorrit: Page 317 line 27 "William" appears. Page 371 "B2" appears. Pages 469 - 473 "Rigaud" appears. 
Bleak House: Page 19 line 6 "elgble" appears. Page 209 line 23 "chair" appears. Page 275 line 22 "counsinship" appears. Page 529 line 22 "picter" appears.
The Life and Adventures... The engraved title page shows £100
David Copperfield - Page 132 "screwed" is used - "...which he screwed out of himself,....."