The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Leather Bound
- London: Chapman and Hall, 1870
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition in book form, early issue. Leather Bound. Very Good. S. L. Fildes. 190pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Bound in a contemporary Bayntun binding of full brown leather, with gilt stamped ornamental designs on the spine, the publication date at the foot of the spine, and double gilt-ruled borders on the covers. All edges gilt. Turn-ins gilt. Half title vignette. Two brown silk ribbon page-markers. Spine labels absent. Light rubbing to the extremities. Faint numerical notation to front free endpaper. Tiny loss to the top fore-edge corners of pp. 101-106. Lacks publisher's catalogue at rear. Eckel, p. 96-98. Smith, Part I: 16. With all the internal flaws listed in Smith, with the exception of the last flaw. With twelve illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes, and a portrait.
Dickens' final and unfinished novel. Dickens died after having written six parts, one-half of which were published. John C. Eckel writes, "The solution of the plot was never disclosed and this stamps 'Drood' as one of the best unfinished mystery stories in literature.
Dickens' final and unfinished novel. Dickens died after having written six parts, one-half of which were published. John C. Eckel writes, "The solution of the plot was never disclosed and this stamps 'Drood' as one of the best unfinished mystery stories in literature.