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Little Dorrit
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Publisher's green cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, spine darkened, covers a little rubbed and faded; plates with usu
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. First edition, with early issue points as per Smith (pp. 467-474 uncorrected, etc.). Illustrated with 40 etched plates after drawings by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, spine darkened, covers a little rubbed and faded; plates with usual darkening at margins, title and frontispiece slightly foxed and darkened -- still, quite a good copy and infrequently seen in publisher's cloth. First edition, with early issue points as per Smith (pp. 467-474 uncorrected, etc.). Illustrated with 40 etched plates after drawings by H.K. Browne ("Phiz"). 1 vols. 8vo. In Original Cloth. 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 #
- 55017
- 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
- Used - Publisher's green cloth stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, spine darkened, covers a little rubbed and faded; plates with usu
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, with early issue points as per Smith (pp. 467-474
- Publisher
- Bradbury & Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857
- Keywords
- British | British | Charles Dickens
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Sets & Fine Bindings;
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James Cummins Bookseller
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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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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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