First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title-page: “To Hon: Mrs Watson, From Charles Dickens, Fourth December, 1859.”
A Tale of Two Cities was published on 21 November 1859. Dickens had a few copies bound for presentation with the frontispiece and engraved title, but without the plates. Other known copies, including those presented by him to George Eliot and Charles Lever, are similarly bound and made up. The text is in first state, with p. 213 misnumbered 113.
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