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Author Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Title Bleak house / By Charles Dickens ; With illustrations by H.K. Browne
Published London : Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1853
London : Bradbury & Evans, 1853 [1852, 53]

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 ADPML SPC  820.8 D5486 A6/BL/1853  LIB USE ONLY
Description xvi, 624 pages (20 no. in 19) in box : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary Bleak House follows the fortunes and relationships of three characters whose fates are tied to the obscure inheritance case of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, which is tied up in endless litigation. While many deserving and undeserving claim the inheritance, it is ironically being devoured in legal costs
Notes Added t.p., engraved
First edition: 20 numbers (in 19) issued monthly, from March, 1852, to September, 1853, in illustrated blue paper covers; each number contains two plates except no.9 and 10, which contain one and three respectively. A printed notice in no.9 explains the reason for this
Last issue, no. XIX & XX, September 1853 includes title-page, dedication, preface, list of contents and of plates
This work is out of copyright
"Mirror of the World", Dome level 4, State Library of Victoria
Subject Guardian and ward -- Fiction.
Illegitimate children -- Fiction.
Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.
Law -- England -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
SUBJECT London (England) -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106611
Genre/Form Fiction.
Author Phiz, 1815-1882.
LC no. 06036371