1848 Charles Dickens 1st ed Dombey & Son | Illustrated by Phiz | Leather

1848 Charles Dickens 1^st ed Dombey & Son | Illustrated by Phiz | Leather

“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’, bound in beautiful leather!

Item number: #27420

Price: $750

DICKENS, Charles

Dombey and Son

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • xvi, [2], 624
  • Illustrated with 40 engravings
• References: Grolier, Dickens 155
• First edition points:
  • Title page: Cuttle’s hook is on left arm
  • xv no page listed for frontispiece and vignette, no quotation marks around “the party”
  • 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” corrected to ‘Captain’
  • 547 “Dark Plate” is present
  • 582, last line: final period not included
• Provenance: Armorial bookplate – George Jacob Bosanquet, Esq^re, Broxbournbury
  • Likely George Jacob Bosanquet (1791-1866), son of Jacob Bosanquet Jr. (1755–1828), a British silk merchant who was director and chairman of the East India Company.
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather, secure
• Size: ~8.75in X 5.75in (22cm x 14.5cm)

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