Shelfmark
Icc2.3.10(01-06)
Additional shelfmark
[Another copy:] Icc2.5.29(01-06)
Author
Title
The mystery of Edwin Drood / by Charles Dickens ; with twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes and a portrait.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly, 1870.
Physical description
6 v. (viii, 190 [2] p.), [14] leaves of plates ; ill., port. ; 23 cm.
Note
Preliminaries bound at end of part 6.
Note
With original printed blue/green paper wrappers designed by C. A. Collins.
Note
With additional engraved title-page.
Note
Includes publisher's statement.
Citation/references note
Hatton and Cleaver, p. 373.
Provenance
[Icc2.5.29(01-06)] Bookplate of C. J. M. Adie.
Binding
[Icc2.3.10(01-06)] Housed in 20th century blue cloth and morocco box with gilt tooling and lettering ; made by R. L. Day (binder's stamp).
Binding
[Icc2.5.29(01-06)] Late 19th/early 20th century green morocco half-binding with marbled paper boards, gilt tooling, and gilt lettering on spine ; preliminaries and plates bound in order ; original wrappers bound in after text.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.3.10(01-06)] All parts with all advertisements except: Part 2 lacks back 'cork' advertisement ; part 5 lacks 2 back advertisements. Part 4 has 'remainder' back advertisement of publisher's catalogue.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.3.10(01-06)] [?]Part 1 has later issue wrappers.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.3.10(01-06)] Part 1 has printed label on front wrapper over original price.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.5.29(01-06)] All parts with all advertisements except: Parts 1, 2, 4, and 5 lack a back advertisement ; parts 5 and 6 lack back slips ; part 6 lacks first leaf of the "Edwin Drood advertiser", the final page of which is duplicated.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.5.29(01-06)] [?]Part 1 has later issue wrappers ; only a fragment remains of the front wrapper of part 6 ; wrappers of part 2 are duplicated.
Subject
Opium abuse in literature.
Subject
Jealousy.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Adie, C. J. M. (Clement James Mellish), 1876 - 1954 former owner.
Added entry--name
Day, R. L. binder.
Added entry--name
Collins, Charles Allston, 1828 - 1873 cover designer.
Added entry--name
Chapman and Hall publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B27959