![]() A complex novel and filled with subplots, it engages and titillates the reader from start to finish. Dickens turns his pen to a biting condemnation of the system and the need for reform (which shouldn't surprise the Dickens scholar). ![]() One of Dickens finest novels, the action in Bleak House revolves around a never-ending set of related Chancery Court cases to resolve the inheritance of a considerable estate. Extremely clean internally, with much less foxing than is typically seen. Marbled end papers and marbling to the text block. ![]() ![]() Complete with all 40 plates which include the frontispiece, title-page and the 10 "dark plates." Has all three typographical errors associated with the first edition, first issue: P.19, line 6: "elgble" P.209, line 23: "chair" instead of "hair" and P.275, line 22: "counsinship" instead of "cousinship." Bound in full polished calf, rebacked with the original spine laid down (and inner hinges reinforced). ![]()
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