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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Little Dorrit. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857.
8o (212 x 137 mm). Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne (some plates lightly foxed or with minor age-darkening at edges). (Lacking half-title.) Contemporary half calf gilt (extremities rubbed); full morocco pull-off case. Provenance: Rev. George Wilkinson, Rectory Whicham Whitehaven (addressed envelope in Dickens' hand mounted on front endpaper); Edwin W. Coggershall (catalogue slip mounted on front free endpaper); A.E. Newton (bookplate and note on remark slip mounted on front free endpaper [see below]); Robert Norton Ganz (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pp. 469-73 (without 9-line errata, but corrected in ink in an unknown hand). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on an inserted leaf: "Faithfully yours Charles Dickens Tavistock House, London Monday Fourteenth December, 1857"; and with mounted envelope (with Dickens monogram) addressed by Dickens to Wilkinson (presumably the recipient of this copy) on opposite page.
On the mounted remark slip, A.E. Newton has written: "...This was inaccurately catalogued in the Coggershall sale {1916}, when it was stated the inscription was inserted, 'an envelope is laid in,' but the inscription is written in the book itself see the marbling of the edges. For some reason not many presentation copies of 'Little Dorrit' are known. A.E.N." Smith 12.
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FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, FIRST ISSUE, with "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pp. 469-73 (without 9-line errata, but corrected in ink in an unknown hand). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on an inserted leaf: "Faithfully yours Charles Dickens Tavistock House, London Monday Fourteenth December, 1857"; and with mounted envelope (with Dickens monogram) addressed by Dickens to Wilkinson (presumably the recipient of this copy) on opposite page.
On the mounted remark slip, A.E. Newton has written: "...This was inaccurately catalogued in the Coggershall sale {1916}, when it was stated the inscription was inserted, 'an envelope is laid in,' but the inscription is written in the book itself see the marbling of the edges. For some reason not many presentation copies of 'Little Dorrit' are known. A.E.N." Smith 12.