Dickens (Charles) Great Expectations, 3 vol., first edition, first impression, without advertisements, vol. 1 title with neat repair to corner a fore-margin, a few other neatly repaired tears or expert marginal restorations, without loss to text, some light corner creasing, occasional light soiling or scattered spotting, several leaves washed, blue crushed morocco gilt by Bayntun, spines gilt in compartments, g.e., [Great Expectations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, Appendix D) ; Smith 1:14; Sadleir 688; Wolff 1799], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1861.

⁂ The earliest impression of Dicken's rarest novel. This copy agrees in all points with Margaret Caldwell's extensive analysis of the differing impressions in the Clarendon edition of Great Expectations. The third volume here here contains the numeral "3" in the pagination on p. 103, and the initial "i" in "inflexible" on p. 193, both errors that crept in during the first impression, indicating that this would have been among the earlier copies to be printed.