DOMBEY AND SON.
de DICKENS, Charles (Charles John Huffam), 1812-1870 :
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London, United Kingdom
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London : Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition, in book form, bound from the original monthly parts published between October 1846 and April 1848. Dickens' telling tale of father and son, father and daughter - when the fifth instalment appeared, Thackeray - himself in the middle of serialising "Vanity Fair" - exclaimed "There's no writing against such power as this - no one has a chance! Read that chapter describing young Paul's death: it is unsurpassed - it is stupendous". This copy exhibits the dropped "if" on p.426 - a point of no proven significance, any more than all the other errors and minor variations said to indicate a mythical "first issue" - in particular the depiction of Captain Cuttle's hook on the wrong arm in the title-page vignette. There are no copies depicting it on the correct arm. See the "Not Peevish" post on the "Bookhunter on Safari" blog, December 20th 2013. Demy 8vo (210 x 131mm). xvi,624pp. Etched frontispiece, extra-title and thirty-eight plates by "Phiz" (H. K. Browne). Bound up, without errata leaf or half-title, in a contemporary olive half calf, marbled sides, now neatly rebacked, retaining the original red label; endpapers replaced; some minor scuffing and wear; some browning and spotting to plates, mainly to margins, but overall a good and sound copy.
Sinopsis
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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- Librería
- Ash Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 40829
- Título
- DOMBEY AND SON.
- Autor
- DICKENS, Charles (Charles John Huffam), 1812-1870 :
- Ilustrador
- Phiz
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- 1
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- Editorial
- London : Bradbury & Evans, 1848.
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- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- English Literature, Fiction
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- 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...
- 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...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
