Lot 327
Collins (Wilkie) The Woman in White: a Novel, first edition, first state, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1860.
Hammer Price: £2,200
Description
Collins (Wilkie) The Woman in White: a Novel, first edition, first state, woodcut illustrations, advertisement leaf at beginning dated August 1860, advertisements at end headed 'Miss Murloch's Novels', previous owner's contemporary inscription to preliminary blank, scattered faint spotting, original blind-stamped cloth with silver lady to spine foot, gilt, neat and expert repairs to spine ends and upper joint, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Sadleir 605], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1860.
⁂ The scarce first edition, first state with the first issue binding, which can be distinguished from later bindings by the silver lady on the spine, and by the misspelling of 'Muloch' in the heading of the advertisements at the end.
Description
Collins (Wilkie) The Woman in White: a Novel, first edition, first state, woodcut illustrations, advertisement leaf at beginning dated August 1860, advertisements at end headed 'Miss Murloch's Novels', previous owner's contemporary inscription to preliminary blank, scattered faint spotting, original blind-stamped cloth with silver lady to spine foot, gilt, neat and expert repairs to spine ends and upper joint, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and spine extremities, [Sadleir 605], 8vo, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1860.
⁂ The scarce first edition, first state with the first issue binding, which can be distinguished from later bindings by the silver lady on the spine, and by the misspelling of 'Muloch' in the heading of the advertisements at the end.