Books and Manuscripts

Dickens, Charles
Little Dorrit
London: Bradbury & Evans, December, 1855-June, 1856. 20 parts in 19 volumes. First edition, first issue, in original monthly parts (with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" in No. XV, and Author's correction slip in No. XVI). Illustrated with an etched frontispiece, etched vignette title-page, and 38 etched plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), including the eight “dark plates”. Publisher's limp printed blue-green wrappers, light to moderate wear along extremities and spines, spine largely darkened as usual; lacking second ad slip in No. V, all ads in Nos. VIII, XII, and XVII, and second ad in No. XVIII; plates foxed as usual; in quarter burgundy morocco lift-off case and chemise. Hatton and Cleaver, pp. 305-330; Eckel, pp. 82-85

A lovely first edition in original monthly parts of Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit.