Charles Dickens — Our Mutual Friend

London, Chapman and Hall, 1865. First edition. Leather. A morocco-bound first issue of Charles Dickens' last completed novel, offering a savage satire of Victorian society. First edition, first issue, with the three page postscript to the rear of Vol. II, and with 'Pricipal' for 'Principal' to Vol. II pp. 115. In a half morocco binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Bound with half titles and original blanks. Bound with post script to the rear of Vol. II. Illustrated by Marcus Stone, an English painter, who was an Associate of the Royal Academy.Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece and nineteen plates. Collated, complete.Our Mutual Friend serves as one of Dickens' most penetrating accounts of Victorian society, centring on the corruptive powers of an inheritance on its legatees.The last competed novel of renowned English novelist, Charles Dickens. In a half morocco binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Bound with half titles. Externally, smart, with rubbing to the extremities and lifting to morocco. The odd small mark to the leather. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with occasional spots, heaviest to the edges of the plates (as is commonly found). Tide mark to plate facing pp. 308 Vol. I and to Vol. I frontispiece. Very Good . Ill.: Marcus Stone. Very Good .