Dombey and Son

by Charles Dickens

$1,650 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Very early issue, with all but 5 of Smith's 'internal flaws.' Finely bound full red morocco with a portrait of Dickens on the front cover and his signatures on the rear in gilt binding unsigned, but seems to be Bayntun . Gilt titles and decorative spine compartments on the spine, all edges gilt. Marbled end papers. Bound without half title else

• Binding: Leather

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