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Little Dorrit
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- first
- Condition
- 19th-century tan polished calf, rebacked with gilt spine and contrasting red and green leather labels, new endpapers. Occasional
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition. Illustrated with 40 etched plates after drawings by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). 1 vols. 8vo. 19th-century tan polished calf, rebacked with gilt spine and contrasting red and green leather labels, new endpapers. Occasional spotting to text, usual slight darkening of plates, but overall a handsome copy. First edition. Illustrated with 40 etched plates after drawings by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). 1 vols. 8vo. Handsome Little Dorritt. Smith 12
Synopsis
Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors' prisons & mdash ; in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned.
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- Seller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 58463
- Title
- Little Dorrit
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Illustrated with 40 etched plates after drawings by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- New 19th-century tan polished calf, rebacked with gilt spine and contrasting red and green leather labels, new endpapers. Occasional
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Bradbury & Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857
- Keywords
- British | Charles Dickens
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
James Cummins Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
New York, New York
About James Cummins Bookseller
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- New
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Calf
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