Lot 50
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857.
Sale 855 - Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection
Mar 19, 2021 10:00AM CT
Online / Chicago
Estimate
$200 - $300

Sold for $281

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857.

8vo (218 x 140 mm). Engraved frontispiece, vignette title, and 38 plates by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz", including 8 'dark' plates. (Some minor marginal darkening to a few plates, some light spotting.) Later half red calf gilt stamp-signed by Henry Young & Sons, top edge gilt (spine faded, some light rubbing); original front wrapper of part No.II bound in at end. Provenance: Samuel Field (bookplate). 
 
FIRST EDITION bound from the original parts (with sewing holes present), with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pp. 469-474, but without the additional 9-line errata slip at p.481 of Part 16, Book II. Eckel, p. 82; Gimbel A140; Hatton & Cleaver 305-330; Sadler 691; Smith I: 12.

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