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DICKENS, Charles.
Master Humphrey's Clock.
With illustrations by G. Cattermole and H. K. Browne.
First edition in the original weekly parts. With preliminaries (frontispiece, title-page and preface) for the three volume edition present in numbers 26, 52, and 88. Each issued as a single folded sheet consisting of 16 pages, of which twelve were numbered pages of letterpress and the others forming the outer wrapper. Every four or five weeks the leaves of text were gathered and made up into a single part, each bound in familiar green wrappers, so creating the monthly issue. When both these periodical issues were complete the whole was bound in three volumes in purple-brown cloth. This weekly format is the scarcest in commerce.
88 weekly parts, octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. In a quarter morocco and green cloth solander case. 3 engraved frontispieces and illustrations throughout the text. Wrappers lightly rubbed and occasionally chipped and marked, lower corner of the cover to part 81 torn with some loss of text, some parts unopened.
