Dealings with the firm Dombey and son

First edition, rare, first issue with the 8 lines of errata on one leaf. The illustration, executed according to the author's very precise instructions, comprises a frontispiece, an engraved title with a vignette and 38 plates by Hablot Knight Browne, including one in mezzotint: On the dark road. Text on tinted laid paper.

Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Raised bands spine, decorated. Author and title in gilt. Top edge gilt. Margins of the frontispiece, engraved title and engravings browned, as is usually the case in English editions of Dickens. Clean text, free from foxing. Light rubbing. Handsome copy.
A novel written in a distinctly darker vein featuring the excessive pride of a tyrannical father driven by ambition against the unwavering love of his daughter, whom he completely ignores. As always with Dickens, we find a keen perception of the social tensions of the period.