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Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens. First issue in first issue blue cloth with gilt lettered spine. Publisher: Bradbury & Evans, London, 1846. First Edition. First Issue, with all correct points per Smith bibliography. 270 pages plus two pages of ads. Four woodcut vignettes by Samuel Palmer. In original diaper-grain blue cloth, decorated in blind-stamping with elaborate arabesque border and round center ornament, spine decorated in blind and lettered in gilt. A nice tight copy, binding very good plus condition, small split at top of front gutter. Contents clean, a few pages with corner folds. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #C-168. Price: $750.