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London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. With illustrations by H. K. Browne. Pp. [iii]-xvi+624, frontispiece with tissue guard, vignette title, plus 38 plates; demy 8vo; rebound in modern half red morocco, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt around raised bands, marbled papered boards; later endpapers, the plates lightly offset, some foxing (mainly to plates), occasional slight soiling; Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First edition. Smith, Part I, 10. *Lacking the half-title page, but with all of the internal printing flaws listed by Smith. Bleak House originally appeared in twenty numbers, bound in nineteen monthly parts (the last being a double number), from March 1852 to September 1853. The 40 illustrations by Phiz include ten 'dark plates'.

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published as a serial between March 1852 and September 1853. It is considered one of his finest works, containing a vast, complex plot and an extraordinary number of characters.