Our mutual friend / by Charles Dickens ; with introduction and notes by Andrew Lang ; in two vols. ... ; with the original illustrations.
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Category
Books
Date
1898
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3259175
Summary
Bibliographic description
Gadshill edition. 2 v., plates : ill. ; 21 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other vols. of Gadshill edition of the works of Charles Dickens (London and New York, 1897-1899). Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth-century half red morocco, red cloth over boards; five raised bands; gilt tooled spines; spines lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Dickens / Vol. 23[-24]' and 'Our mutual friend I[-II]'; gilt top edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpapers verso: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'. Some uncut leaves in both vols.
Makers and roles
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), author Marcus Stone (London 1840 - London 1921), illustrator Walter Andrew Lang (1844-1912), editor