Description
First two-volume edition of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, published in 1865, bound by Bayntun of London, as a single volume.
Thick octavo, [two volumes], xi, 320pp; viii, 309pp. Full blue morocco with gilt trim to covers. Five raised bands, title in gilt on spine with gilt embellishments. All edges gilt, with gilt turn-ins and marbled endpapers. Stamped by the Bayntun bindery of London on the front endpaper. Solid text block, sunned spine, internally fine. Complete with 40 full page plates (twenty per volume), including two frontispieces. (Eckel 94) (Smith I, 15)
