first edition Softcover
1852 · New York
by (Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, et al.)
New York: D.W. Holly; Champion Bissell, 1852. Softcover. Good. 10 consecutive monthly issues (plus two duplicate copies), in original wrappers: March-December, 1852. All ten issues are illustrated with an engraved frontispiece plate: including portraits of General Winfield Scott and Daniel Webster. Dust soiling and scattered foxing, most wrappers have scattered short tears along the spines and edges, one back cover is detached, good only overall. A collection of ten loose issues of America’s preeminent journal devoted to politics and literature. Contains several important literary reviews, including articles on Margaret Fuller Ossoli, “Bleak House, Charles (truncated)
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