LITTLE DORRIT
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- V.g.
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Yaxley, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. xiv, 625pp. Vignette tile-page dated 1857 and preface dated May 1857. 40 plates by H.K. Browne inc. title vignette [Phiz]. Three Smith first issue points present for the first issue. Namely p470, 472 and 473 'Rigaud' instead of 'Blandois'. B2 instead of BB2 [p371] and "William for Frederick" on page 317 line 27. NO errata slip inserted p481. Three line errata footnote of plate list. Ist edition 1st impression bound form the parts [stab-holes present]. Bound in contemporary red half-calf with gilt dec. to the compartments between the five raised bands and gilt stamped title, red buckram boards with orig. red marbled end-papers.Gilt rules to the calf edges on the boards. No fading. Rubbed extremities but a sound copy. All plates edges foxed as often. No binders ticket or stamp but an attractive original binding. Owners inscription dated 1935 to the verso of the frontispiece. All edges gilt. PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS. 1st ed., 1st imp.. hard back. V.g.. 8vo.
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
- Thomas Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- X401
- Title
- LITTLE DORRIT
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used - V.g.
- Edition
- 1st ed., 1st imp.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857
- Size
- 8vo
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Yaxley, Suffolk
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- Errata
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- Gilt
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- Foxed
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- Edges
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- Buckram
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- Calf
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- Verso
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Plate
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- Vignette
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