Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens with illustrations by H.K. Browne, published in London by Bradbury & Evans in 1848
FIRST EDITION FIRST IMPRESSION, containing all of Walter E. Smith's requisite first impression points, listed below.
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Edition points include: (all present)
The frontispiece without a page number
No quotation marks for "The Party" on pp.xv line 2
"shewed" and "shew" for "showed" and "show" error pp.40 lines 16 and 17
"delight" for "joy" error pp.284 5th and 6th line from the bottom
"Capatin" for "Captain" pp.324 final line
Size: 156 x 215 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[xvi, 624pp]
Half calf leather over marbled boards, rebacked with the earlier backstrip relaid to new calf. Joints fine with both boards securely attached. Binding slightly cocked with a slight shelf lean but remains stable. Boards very good or better. Marbling of page edges faded and dulled as typical. Leaf edge repairs from the frontis up to pp.32 and the final two leaves without loss to text. The original errata slip has been bound in at the final blank as opposed to its usual location to the verso of pp.1. Collated as complete with 38 plates by Phiz (plus frontis and engraved title page), plate 35 being the first published example of a dark plate. Internally generally clean, notably cleaner than the typical example. Some edge toning/oxidation to plates as typical but generally free of the substantial foxing which usually affects the plates. Text block mildly toned as typical.
