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Dealings With The Firm Of Dombey And Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Modern three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. All edges marbled. Fine
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Modern three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. All edges marbled. Fine. H.K. Browne. 624 pages, 23 x 15 cm. First edition in book form. Thirty eignt full-page plates by Hablot K. Browne [Phiz]. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the addition of 12 engraved plates interleaved throughout (some plate spotting). Early issue with following points -- two line errata leaf, no half title, vignette title with Cuttle's hook in left hand, "Delight" instead of "Joy" (p.284), page number 431 present. "Capatin" for "Captain" in last line p. 234, and "if" missing in line 9 on p. 426, no period at end of last line on p. 582. ECKEL pp.74-76. SMITH 1:8. YALE/GIMBEL A103. Text clean, plates also bright and fresh with a few slightly toned at margins. Frontispiece and title page with light margin toning.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23562
- Title
- Dealings With The Firm Of Dombey And Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Illustrator
- H.K. Browne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Modern three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. All edges marbled. Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1848
- Keywords
- Book Arts
- Bookseller catalogs
- Victorian;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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ardsley, New York
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Marbled boards
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- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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