Great Expectations (Wordsworth Deluxe Classics) Hardcover - 2003
by Dickens, Charles
About this book
First Edition Identification
Great Expectations by Dickens was first published on 6 July 1861 in London by Chapman and Hall. It is considered not only the rarest and most valuable of Dickens's works, but arguably his greatest. Copies in the original cloth are particularly desirable. Published in 3 volumes, the first edition of Great Expectations has the original publisher’s violet wavy-grain cloth binding with floral decoration in blind on covers and spines lettered in gilt. Five impressions of the first edition were printed, each of the latter four with a new edition statement on the title page. The first edition first issue of Great Expectations’ rarity has been attributed to the probable small binding-up of copies with the first title page, coupled with the fact that the first edition was almost entirely taken up by the libraries.
Details
- Title Great Expectations (Wordsworth Deluxe Classics)
- Author Dickens, Charles
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition New Ed
- Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd, Great Britain
- Date 2003
- ISBN 9781840224436