Shelfmark
Icc2.3.06(01-19)
Additional shelfmark
[Another copy:] Icc2.5.19(01-19)
Author
Title
Dombey and Son / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by H. K. Browne.
Varying form of title
Cover title: Dealings with the firm of Domby and Son, wholesale, retail, and for exportation
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie Street, 1848.
Physical description
19 v. (xvi, 624 p.), [40] leaves of plates ; ill. ; 23 cm.
Note
20 serial parts published in 19 vols.
Note
Preliminaries bound at end of part 20.
Note
With original printed blue/green wrappers.
Note
With additional engraved title-page.
Citation/references note
Hatton and Cleaver, p. 227.
Provenance
[Icc2.3.06(01-19)] Red monogram stamp in the style of a Chinese chopmark inside box.
Provenance
[Icc2.3.06(01-19)] Some wrappers with ms. illegible names.
Provenance
[Icc2.5.19(01-19)] Bookplate of C. J. M. Adie.
Binding
[Icc2.3.06(01-19)] Housed in 20th century blue cloth box with gilt on black leather lettering piece.
Binding
[Icc2.5.19(01-19)] Late 19th/early 20th century green morocco half-binding with marbled paper boards, gilt tooling, and gilt lettering on spine ; preliminaries and plates bound in order ; original wrappers and advertisements bound in after text.
Copy-specific note
Icc2.3.06(01-19)] All parts first issue with applicable misprint and omissions except: Part 1 which lacks advertisements on wrappers, 14 which has the omission on p. 26 but is paginated p. 431, and part 19-20 which has the 8 line errata.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.3.06(01-19)] All parts with advertisements, including Lett's Diaries specimen leaves in part 15, but lacking: 1 front slip in part 3, Lett's diaries lacking specimen leaves in part 4, part 7 has an additional front slip, part 9 lacks the first of three back advertisements, part 10 lacks final back advertisement, and part 11 lacks back slip.
Copy-specific note
Icc2.3.06(01-19)] Ms. bookseller's codes in pencil inside box.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.5.19(01-19)] All parts appear to be first issue, including first issue error in part 9 on p. 284, and misprint in part 11 on p. 324, except: Part 3 lacks the '!' inside front wrapper ; part 13 has the broken date on the "Domby and Son Advertiser" of later issues ; part 14 lacks the misprints of the earliest issues ; part 19-20 has the later 8 line errata.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.5.19(01-19)] Lacking advertisements: Part 1 (back advertisements) ; part 2 ; part 4 ; part 9 (two back advertisements) ; part 15 (front slip) ; part 17 (one front and two back slips) ; part 18 (front slip and back advertisements), back slip is bound in after advertisements of part 19-20.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.5.19(01-19)] Part 15 has 9 Lett's Diaries specimen samples.
Copy-specific note
[Icc2.5.19(01-19)] Part 1 lacking back wrapper ; part 3 lacking back wrapper ; part 12 lacking wrappers ; back wrapper of part 19-20 bound in after advertisements for part 12 ; back wrapper of part 18 bound in after part 19-20.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Adie, C. J. M. (Clement James Mellish), 1876 - 1954 former owner.
Added entry--name
Bradbury & Evans publisher.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B27942