Little Dorrit.
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857 First edition, first state with signature mark B2 for 2B2 and "Rigaud" instead of "Blandois" in pp. 467-74. Half burgundy morocco over burgundy cloth boards, all edges gilt. Thick octavo. Forty engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne, including frontispiece and vignette title. Top corners bumped, light wear to joints. Some light foxing to plates. A very good copy. This was one of Dickens's most popular novels. Circulation figures almost equaled the record breaking numbers of Bleak House. (Hatton and Cleaver, pp. 307-330).
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13548
- Title
- Little Dorrit.
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Half burgundy morocco over burgundy cloth boards, all edges gilt
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first state with signature mark B2 for 2B2 and "R
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1857
- Pages
- xiv, 625 pp.
- Size
- Thick octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
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Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...