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Little Dorrit

by Dickens, Charles

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London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First Edition in original parts. Very good. (20 Parts published in 19). Housed in a custom made silk solander box with leather labels. All plates present including the dark plates and the frontispiece and vignette title. Includes Rigaud for Bladois at Part 15 (ten times as per Smith 1:12), errata slip in Part 16, and the Preliminary Leaves in Parts 19 & 20.

For the most part an internally clean set with occasional foxing and soiling. The wraps are generally just a little edgeworn and several have had small expert repairs to the spines. Several wraps have the ownership signature "Thos. Bostock Esq." either above or just below the top border. Some advertisements and slips are lacking in 10 of the 19 parts (often the case), but only Part One is lacking all of the preceding advertisments. Four small sections of advertisements have been excised.A very good set, neatly repaired and beautifully presented. (Smith 1:12; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 305-330). One of Dickens' mature works, Little Dorrit was a great success with the reading public. Hatton and Cleaver describe its circulation numbers as "abnormal, equal almost to the record breaking 'Bleak House'" (1933, p.307) and Eckels similarly wrote that, "in the face of critical opposition the book was a prime favourite, the second part reaching a circulation of 35,000." 1932, p.82).

Synopsis

Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors' prisons & mdash ; in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned.

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Bookseller
Archives Fine Books AU (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Little Dorrit
Author
Dickens, Charles
Book Condition
Used - Very good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition in original parts
Publisher
Bradbury and Evans
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1857
Bookseller catalogs
Literature & Classics;

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Vignette
A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
Errata
Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
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...
Leaves
Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...

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