Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. H.K. Browne (Phiz). Lovely first edition, first state, two-volume set, bound from the original parts, with stab marks occasionally showing. Shows all relevant first edition points, including "B2" at the bottom of page 371; "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pages 469, 470, 472, and 473, and a three-line erratum at the end of the table of contents. Forty etched plates including the eight "dark" plates, frontis, and title page vignette. The list of plates erroneously includes only thirty-nine, a plate on page three having been missed. Rebound in recent uniform rust boards with the gilt initials CD embossed to front covers. Gilt date 1857, lettering, and flower device to spine. A lovely set of Dickens, historically and biographically important in this first state format
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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- Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12209
- Title
- Little Dorrit
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- H.K. Browne (Phiz)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Bradbury & Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857
- Keywords
- literature, Dickens
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- First State
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- Title Page
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- Vignette
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