Little Dorrit
by Dickens, Charles
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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For the most part an internally clean set with occasional foxing and soiling. The wraps are generally just a little edgeworn and several have had small expert repairs to the spines. Several wraps have the ownership signature "Thos. Bostock Esq." either above or just below the top border. Some advertisements and slips are lacking in 10 of the 19 parts (often the case), but only Part One is lacking all of the preceding advertisments. Four small sections of advertisements have been excised.A very good set, neatly repaired and beautifully presented. (Smith 1:12; Hatton and Cleaver pp. 305-330). One of Dickens' mature works, Little Dorrit was a great success with the reading public. Hatton and Cleaver describe its circulation numbers as "abnormal, equal almost to the record breaking 'Bleak House'" (1933, p.307) and Eckels similarly wrote that, "in the face of critical opposition the book was a prime favourite, the second part reaching a circulation of 35,000." 1932, p.82).
Synopsis
Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtors' prisons & mdash ; in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned.
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- Archives Fine Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 795
- Title
- Little Dorrit
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition in original parts
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857
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