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Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation

by Dickens, Charles

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London. London: Bradbury & Evans. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1848. 1st Edition. Early State. Hardcover. Contempory half calf binding with marbled boards. Gilt title embossed on morocco spine insert, elaborate and delicate gilt floral decoration on four raised bands and two additional bands at head and foot of spine. Boards and leather are rubbed at extremities with discolored spot on spine where a label may have once been affixed. Bookplate of Charles Hasketh Knowlys on front pastedown. . Contents are as described in Smith (pp 70-73) for the first state, except that the two "Internal Flaws" listed by Smith as occurring in the Table of Contents have been corrected. The other errors are present (for example, the hook is on Captain Cuttle's left arm). The book includes 38 plates, frontispiece, and vignette title page, illustrated by H. K. Browne (Phiz). It also includes the four extra plates, with tissue guards, full-page drawings of Edith, Little Paul, Florence, and Alice. Dickens' errata sheet is bound in after page xvi, and is eight lines long, describing six entries. Book is in excellent condition with tight and attractive binding. As is common for this title, the illustrations, and sometimes their versos and facing pages, are foxed. Usually but not always foxing is limited to the margins of the illustrations. Scans provided on request. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 624 pages. K1 .

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
Sweet Beagle Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
23339
Title
Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation
Author
Dickens, Charles
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
Edition
1st Edition. Early State
Publisher
Bradbury & Evans
Place of Publication
London. London
Date Published
1848
Keywords
Classic Literature
Bookseller catalogs
Fiction, General;

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Glossary

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Morocco
Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
Gilt
The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Bookplate
Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Tight
Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
First State
used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
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...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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...
Errata
Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
Raised Band(s)
Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Vignette
A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
Marbled boards
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Foxed
Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...

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