Octavo, xiv, [errata leaf], 624pp. Full green morocco, decorative gilt border on covers. Title stamped in gilt on spine, raised bands with gilt floral embellishments. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers, turn-ins stamped in blind, decorative gilt board edges. No date on title page, Chapman and Hall with Piccadilly address, "Bradbury, Evans, and Co., Printers" on copyright page. Board edges, spine and joints rubbed. Faint sunning near top edge of back cover. Solid binding, endpapers cracked at front hinge, rear hinge reinforced. Occasional light foxing to interior. Thirty-eight illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), plus a frontispiece and vignette title page. Short closed tear to frontispiece at top of gutter. Label of "R. Broomhall, Bookbinder, &c. Stourbridge" on front pastedown. Features a nicely executed split fore-edge painting with a portrait of a young Charles Dickens and four scenes from the novel Martin Chuzzlewit. Seller Inventory # 13767

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Title: The Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit...

Publisher: Chapman and Hall, London

Publication Date: 1860

Binding: Full leather

Illustrator: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, with a split fore-edge painting depicting scenes from the novel.

Condition: Very good

Edition: Later printing.

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