1848 Charles Dickens – Dombey & Son | 1st edition, English Literature

1848 Charles Dickens – Dombey & Son | 1^st edition,  English Literature

“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’.

A truly rare and impressive first edition printing of ‘Dombey and Son’, complete with all first edition points, bound in beautiful leather!

Item number: #28381

Price: $750

DICKENS, Charles

Dombey and Son

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition.

Details:

• Collation:
  • xiv, 624
    • Wanting p. xv-xvi
  • Illustrated with 40 engravings
    • Curiously supplemented with ~11 other plates of character portraits by H.K. Browne
  • References: Grolier, Dickens 155
  • First edition points:
    • Title page: Cuttle’s hook is on left arm
    • 14, 10 lines up: “aint” has no apostrophe
    • 26, line 11: “fidgetty”
    • 40, lines 16/17 “shewed” and “shew” instead of showed and show
    • 284, 5 lines up: “Delight” instead of “Joy”
    • 324, last line: “Capatin” not corrected to ‘Captain’
    • 547 “Dark Plate” is present
    • 582, last line: final period not included
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather, tight and secure
  • Size: ~8.5in X 6in (21.5cm x 15cm)

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