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Hardcover Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Full calf. Near Fine. Marcus Stone (illustrator). The first edition, first issue in book form (2 volumes). The first issue, with the three page postscript to the rear of Volume II, and with 'Pricipal' for 'Principal' to Volume II page 115. Our Mutual Friend was the last novel Charles Dickens completed before his death in 1870. Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, and nineteen plates.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, and nineteen plates. . Full calf binding with decorative end papers and five raised bands. Gilt text block edges. A little edge wear to boards and tips. Firmly bound and square. Clean internally with a very small amount of foxing, primarily to title page and frontispiece. Small London bookseller's sticker to front pastedown.

Charles Dickens's last completed novel, a work of satire and social commentary that paints a vivid portrait of the dualities of wealth and poverty in London.

First edition published in 1865 by Chapman & Hall in 19 monthly installments; each part contains illustrated plates by Marcus Stone.