1848 Charles Dickens 1st printing Dombey and Son

1848 Charles Dickens 1st printing Dombey and Son English Literature Illustrated

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

― Charles Dickens

While not regarded today as Charles Dickens’ best work, ‘Dombey and Son’ was a polarizing novel that captured the hearts of its readers. In fact, the Grolier ‘Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Works of Dickens’ notes

“that there was nothing in all Dickens’s writings better than the life and death of Paul Dombey. The chapter describing his death ‘threw a whole nation into mourning’.”

This work was first published in 20 monthly installments; this first book edition features the same engravings by H.K. Browne, which are “considered the best efforts of H.K. Browne”. (Grolier). It features the two original pen-and-ink drawings by Browne each signed ‘Phiz’.

Item number: #7130

Price: $599

DICKENS, Charles

Dombey and Son

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. 1st printing!

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[xvi], 624

Illustrated with 40 engravings

References: Grolier, Dickens 155; Eckel 74-76; Gimbel A 103

First edition points:

[p. xv] no page listed for frontispiece and vignette, no quotation marks around "the party"

p. 14, "aint" has no apostrophe

p. 26 "fidgetty"

p. 40 "shewed" and "shew" instead of showed and show

p. 284 "Delight" instead of "Joy"

p. 547 "Dark Plate" is present

p. 582 no period on the last line

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight and secure

Size: ~9in X 6in (22.5cm x 15cm)

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7130
Condition Report: Excellent.