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Lot 99

Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$400 - 600
Price Realized
$260
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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.


8vo. (Lacking half-title and errata.) Engraved frontispiece, engraved vignette title-page, and 38 engraved plates by Hablot Knight Browne ("Phiz"), EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH 12 ENGRAVED PLATES by Browne depicting various characters. (Scattered spotting to text and plates; repair in fore-edge of QQ7.) Full tan calf, red and green morocco spine labels, decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, stamp-signed by Riviere & Son.

FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, with first issue engraved title-page, "if" on p.426, without period at end of last line on p.582, and text largely uncorrected. Smith I, 8.

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