Dombey and Son
by Dickens, Charles:
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- first
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About This Item
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition. 8vo. bound without half title, but with the following first issue points: In the title-page vignette, Capt. Cuttle's hook is on his left arm; p. xv (list of plates), no page given for the frontispiece and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party" line 2; p. 14, ten lines up, "aint" has no apostrophe; p. 26, line 11 has "fidgetty"; on p. 40, "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show"; p. 284, fifth and sixth lines from the bottom, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; [no - corrected]"Capatin" instead of "Captain" last line p. 324. Part XIV is of a mixed issue: "if" is missing from line 9, p. 426, the page number is present on p. 431 (as usual);p. 582, the last line has no full stop. The rare four additional plates by Browne, portraits of Edith (p 400), Little Paul (p 120), Florence (p 228), and Alice (p 341), are present.first edition Book
Synopsis
Charles Dickens’s story of a powerful man whose callous neglect of his family triggers his professional and personal downfall showcases the author’s gift for vivid characterization and unfailingly realistic description. It follows the narrative of a shipping firm owner, who abandoned his family in favor of fortune after rejecting his daughter’s love in preference of a son. He later reconciles with her and begs forgiveness before his death. Dombey and Son is a novel by the Victorian author Charles Dickens. It was first published in monthly parts between October 1846 and April 1848 with the full title Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation . Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne, Switzerland, but traveled extensively during the course of its writing, returning to England to begin another work before completing Dombey and Son.
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- Bookseller
- Bryars and Bryars
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8978
- Title
- Dombey and Son
- Author
- Dickens, Charles:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Bradbury & Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1848
- Bookseller catalogs
- History and Literature;
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