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Little Dorrit
by Charles Dickens
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Centreville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, First issue. Half burgundy morocco over burgundy cloth boards. First issue with the points as called for including: the 3-line errata on page xiv, "William" for "Frederick" on page 317 line 27, "B2" instead of "BB2" on p. 371, "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pp. 467, 469, 470, 472, and 473. List of Plates is inverted by publisher (with p. xiv preceding p. xiii). With engraved plates by H.K. Browne [Phiz] including the frontispiece and vignette title-page. 8vo. Bound tightly and squarely. Gilt top edge. Edge wear and shelf wear to boards including tips and spine. Ownership bookplate to front pastedown. Foxing to the plates/browning to the plate edges.
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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- EGR books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3178
- Title
- Little Dorrit
- Author
- Charles Dickens
- Illustrator
- H.K. Browne [Phiz]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857
- Pages
- 625
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Charles Dickens;
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- Gilt
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- Vignette
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- Errata
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- Shelf Wear
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Plate
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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