Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens 1848 First Edition

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens with illustrations by H.K. Browne, published in London by Bradbury & Evans in 1848

 

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A lovely clean copy of the first edition of Dombey & Son, scarce in a contemporary fine binding and with plates as clean as here.

 

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Edition points include: 

• The frontispiece without a page number (Present)
• No quotation marks for "The Party" on pp.xv line 2 (Present)
• "shewed" and "shew" for "showed" and "show" error pp.40 lines 16 and 17 (Present)
• "Dull cooking" for "dull crying" pp.101, 9 lines up
• "suspiciously" for "auspiciously" pp.105, 3 lines up
• "delight" for "joy" error pp.284 5th and 6th line from the bottom (Present)
• "Capatin" for "Captain" pp.324 final line
• "above stairs" for "down stairs" pp.494 line 1 (Present)
• "two" for "too" pp.497 line 29 (Present)

 

Size: 153 x 220 mm (approx.)

 

Condition: 

[(2), h.t., frontis, engraved t.p., t.p., vii-xvi, 624pp., (2)]

Half brown calf over marbled paper backed boards with a black tooled label in a compartment to the spine between gilt bands, other compartments with decorative gilt. Binding lightly rubbed and scuffed. Both boards attached with rubbing along joints and hinges cracked, thus somewhat fragile. Shelf and edge wear. Marbled page edges somewhat dulled. Bookplate attached to front pastedown. Ink ownership inscription to front blank. Text block very clean with light edge toning and occasional foxing. All plates called for as listed in the list of plates.

 

[Smith I. 8].