Little Dorrit
by DICKENS, CHARLES
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Bradbury and Evans, 11 Bouverie Street, 1857. First Edition, First State. Half Leather. Very Good. H.K. Browne [Phiz]. Octavo. Half brown leather and brown cloth boards, gilt ruled spine compartments with gilt title stamped direct, top edge gilt, comb-marbled endpapers, bound by J & J.P. Edmond & Spark, Aberdeen with their little ticket on lower edge of front pastedown. Pp. xiv, [1]-625. Illustrated with 40 engravings in total (includes frontispiece, and engraved title-page). First edition, first state with all points. Browning to plates primarily around margins, with heavier browning on the frontispiece and engraved title-page and offsetting, previous owner's signature and date of 1872 to front blank, else text pages clean and bright.
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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- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34539
- Title
- Little Dorrit
- Author
- DICKENS, CHARLES
- Illustrator
- H.K. Browne [Phiz]
- Format/Binding
- Half Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First State
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans, 11 Bouverie Street
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Octavo
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- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Cloth
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