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Little Dorrit
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- 19th century half red calf and marbled boards, matching marble endpapers and edges. Very good
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition. Hardcover. 19th century half red calf and marbled boards, matching marble endpapers and edges. Very good. H.K. Browne. 625 pages, 22 x 15 cm. First edition in book form, first issue with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pp.469-474, but without the additional 9-line errata. Etched frontispiece, vignette title page and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz). ECKEL pp. 82-85. SMITH I:12. Bound by Smyth, Liverpool: raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs, green leather spine label printed in gilt, Nicholas Robinson bookplate and signature on title; intermittent, scattered foxing mostly marginal, heavier first few and last leaves, solid and tight binding.
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
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18981
- Title
- Little Dorrit
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- H.K. Browne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - 19th century half red calf and marbled boards, matching marble endpapers and edges. Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857
- Keywords
- Book Arts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Victorian;
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ardsley, New York
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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