Dickens, Dombey and Son, 1848, first edition in book form

DICKENS, CHARLES

Dombey and Son. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848

8vo (219 x 135mm.), FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, 8-line errata leaf, half-title, engraved frontispiece and title-page with 38 plates after 'Phiz' (Hablot K. Browne), publisher's original moderate olive green fine-diaper cloth (BURN binder’s label on lower fixed endpaper), covers with three line blind-stamped border with inner ornamental pattern of leaves and stems with chain-like design, spine in blind stamped panels with lettering in gilt, pale orange yellow endpapers, plates occasionally offset and browned in margins, spine slightly faded and cockled, slightly bumped at head and foot of spine, upper hinge slightly split

REFERENCE:

Smith I:8