Dombey and son.
London.
Bradbury and Evans, 1848.
First edition.
8vo.
xiv, 624pp. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and a further 38 engraved plates by H. K. Browne. Without half-title or errata leaf. Contemporary gilt-tooled green half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Oswald Augustus Smith to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting, offsetting. First Edition, early issue, with none of the usual first issue points (p294 has 'joy', p324 'Captain', p426 has 'if' on the ninth line), but with a Bradbury imprint rather than the later Chapman and Hall, and Cuttles' hook is mistakenly on his left hand on the engraved title vignette.
A handsomely bound copy an early issue of the first edition in book form of Dickens' sixth major novel.
£ 375.00
Antiquates Ref: 30133
