Little Dorrit

First edition illustrated by H. K. Browne with a frontispiece, an engraved title with a vignette and 38 plates including 8 in mezzotint. This edition contains all the points of the first issue: 3 lines of errata p. xiv; "William" instead of Frederick p. 317; "Rigaud" in place of "Blandois" p.467.
Contemporary half black glazed calf binding. Spine with false raised bands decorated with fillets. Burgundy calf title label. Wine-colored percale boards. A slight small lack at head. Signs of rubbing to headcaps, joints and corners. Narrow split along the upper joint for 2 cm. Lower joint split for 10 cm on the last third of the joint above the tail. 2 corners slightly bumped. Text paper quite clean, the engravings with browning in margins and verso, as always, due to the laid paper used.
A work of great darkness, Little Dorrit is Dickens's second novel of three political and social novels. It is a denunciation of Victorian society obsessed with wealth and power. G. B. Shaw would judge the novel "More seditious than Karl Marx's Capital". One of Dickens's great works.