Dickens, Charles: The battle of life. A love story. London: Bradbury & Evans 1846. 16,5 x 10 cm. With an illustrated title page, frontispiece and 11 woodcut illustrations. 4 leaves, 175 pages, 1 leaf. Red, smoothed morocco leather with spine title and lavish decorations, filleted cover, gilt edges; original dust jacket and spine bound in.

(The cover has been slightly lightened in places. The interior shows only minor signs of age.)

Eckel 127 ff. - First edition. The engraved title page in the fourth version. Woodcuts based on illustrations by Doyle, Leech, Maclise and Stanfield.