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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). [Great Expectations from All the Year Round]. All the Year Round. London: Chapman & Hall, 1860-1861.
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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). [Great Expectations from All the Year Round]. All the Year Round. London: Chapman & Hall, 1860-1861.


36 original parts bound in one, 8vo (229 x 146 mm). Comprising 36 issues from All the Year Round (occasional very light spotting). Later full morocco gilt, upper cover with gilt cameo portrait of Dickens, lower cover with gilt facsimile signature, stamp-signed by Bayntun-Riviere.

FIRST EDITION, BOUND FROM ORIGINAL PARTS. Great Expectations made its first appearance in Dickens's own periodical, All the Year Round, on 1 December 1860 and ran through 3 August 1861. This is one of two works by Dickens, with the other being Hard Times, to be published without accompanying illustrations.