Charles DICKENS, Hablot Knight BROWNE
Little Dorrit
Bradbury and Evans|London 1857|14 x 22 cm|2 volumes reliés
First illustrated edition by Hablot Knight Browne with a frontispiece, an engraved title with vignette and 38 plates including 8 in mezzotint.
As usual, foxing in the margins of all illustrations.
This edition contains all the features of the first issue: 3 lines of errata on page XIV; "William" instead of Frederick on the twenty-seventh line of page 317; the printed notation B2 at the bottom of page 371 instead of BB2; "Rigaud" instead of "Blandois" on pages 469, 470, 472, and 473.
Bound in half navy blue glazed calf with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets and decorated with double gilt compartments richly ornamented with gilt typographical motifs, red morocco title and volume labels, some traces of rubbing on the spine, frame of dentelle fillets stamped in blind on pebbled paper boards, pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, bookplates pasted on pastedowns, marbled edges, small tears on the leading edges, contemporary bindings.
A masterpiece of great darkness, Little Dorrit is Dickens' second novel of three political and social novels. It is the denunciation of a Victorian society obsessed with wealth and power. George Bernard Shaw would judge the novel "More seditious than Karl Marx's Capital".
Provenance: Robert Nossam Library (Robert Masson) with his bookplate.
As usual, foxing in the margins of all illustrations.
This edition contains all the features of the first issue: 3 lines of errata on page XIV; "William" instead of Frederick on the twenty-seventh line of page 317; the printed notation B2 at the bottom of page 371 instead of BB2; "Rigaud" instead of "Blandois" on pages 469, 470, 472, and 473.
Bound in half navy blue glazed calf with corners, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets and decorated with double gilt compartments richly ornamented with gilt typographical motifs, red morocco title and volume labels, some traces of rubbing on the spine, frame of dentelle fillets stamped in blind on pebbled paper boards, pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, bookplates pasted on pastedowns, marbled edges, small tears on the leading edges, contemporary bindings.
A masterpiece of great darkness, Little Dorrit is Dickens' second novel of three political and social novels. It is the denunciation of a Victorian society obsessed with wealth and power. George Bernard Shaw would judge the novel "More seditious than Karl Marx's Capital".
Provenance: Robert Nossam Library (Robert Masson) with his bookplate.
€680