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Bleak house / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by H.K. Browne.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Books-in-Parts Collection PR4556 .A1 1852 no.1
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor)
- Whittemore, Henry C. (autograph, 23 March 52)
- Physical Description:
- 20 nos. in 19 (xvi, 936 pages, 38 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, portrait ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harper & Bros., [1852-1853]
- Notes:
- 20 numbers (in 19) issued monthly, from April 1852, to Oct. 1853, in paper wrappers printed with publisher's advertisements; each number contains two plates except no. 9, which contains one, and no. 19-20, which contains only two for the double number, not including author's portrait, which was to be used as frontispiece for the bound volumes.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Michael Zinman.
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: RBC has no. 1 only; title leaf wanting.
- Penn Libraries copy has autograph on front wrapper.
- OCLC:
- 2684196
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