Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation.

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870), [PHIZ, pseudonym of H.K. BROWNE, illustrator].

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xvi, 624 [1]. Illustrated with 38 plates, vignette title page and engraved frontispiece by Phiz. Bound from the parts with many of the of sheets in the earliest state of the text. 'Dark' plate pp.547 in fine order. Contemporary half navy calf, extra gilt to spine, marbled sides, edges and endpapers. Moderate spotting to plates, some offset to tissue guards, spotting to frontispiece and vignette title. Binding is gently used and pleasingly aged. An attractive near fine copy. The following first issue points are present: In the title-page vignette, Capt. Cuttle's hook is erroneously on his left arm; p.xv, no page entry for the frontispiece and vignette, and no quotation marks around "the Party" line 2; p.14, ten lines up, "aint" has no apostrophe; p.26, line 11 has "fidgetty"; on p.40, l.16-17 "shewed" and "shew" instead of "showed" and "show"; p.284, fifth and sixth lines from the bottom, "Delight" instead of "Joy"; p.324, p.582, the last line has no full stop. Other points are noted in the later state. Item #72609

Ex-libris James Hale Bates (North American travel writer, 1826-1906); engraved bookplate to pastedown executed by Edwin Davis French (1851-1906) in 1894. Examples of French's work are held at Yale, Harvard, the British Museum, New York Public Library, Rochester University and Illinois State Library. French also designed the bookplate for the Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.

Price: £350.00