DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition, early issue, 8vo (213 x 128mm.) 16 etched plates by H.K. Browne. (Plates toned, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary half morocco over pebbled cloth, g.e. (fading to cloth, small stain to lower cover). Note: of the eight internal flaws identified by Smith, the first three have been corrected. Provenance: John Thomas White (armorial bookplate to front pastedown). [Smith, I, p.96]. – And a further six volumes by Charles Dickens (‘The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club’, first edition, early issue, 1837, 8vo, and ‘Dombey and Son’, first edition, early issue, 1848, 8vo, and ‘The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby’, first edition, early issue, 1839, 8vo, and ‘Little Dorrit’, first edition, early issue, 1857, 8vo, and ‘Bleak House’, first edition, early issue, 1853, 8vo, and ‘The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit’, first edition, early issue, 1844, 8vo) (7).