SKETCHES FROM BLEAK HOUSE

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents, with a little light spotting to the top of the text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions. Complete with the spine-faded original dustwrapper which has a small mark to the front panel. Not price clipped (£8.95 to the bottom of the front flap).

Peake was commissioned to illustrate Dickens's Bleak House in 1945, but the project was ultimately abandoned. Here his sketches and illustrations for the work are paired with extracts from the text for the first time.