 Author Name: Dickens, Charles
Title: Little Dorrit
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: London Bradbury and Evans 1857
Illustrator: H.K. Brown ('Phiz')
Seller ID: 721
2 volumes, 8to, 1857. first issue bound from the original parts with ’Rigaud' for ’Blandois' in chapter 17 but lacking errata slip, etched frontispiece, vignette title and plates, lacking all advertisements and slips, very foxed, contemporary half morocco, rubbed but solid. Mr. Dorrit and his son, Tip, must live as inmates of the debtors' prison, but when they become free to leave its walls they retain the prison mentality: "Wherever he went, this foredoomed Tip appeared to take the prison walls with him. . .until the real immovable Marshalsea walls asserted their fascination over him, and brought him back" (p.116). The reader comes to see that most characters live in their own, internal prisons. Underrated Dickens.
First Issue, Rigaud
Price =
527.44 USD |
