Little Dorrit (Two books in one volume)

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition in book form, first issue. Leather Bound. Very Good. H. K. Browne. 625pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Bound in a contemporary Bayntun binding of full brown leather, with gilt stamped ornamental designs on the spine, the publication date at the foot of the spine, and double gilt-ruled borders on the covers. All edges gilt. Turn-ins gilt. Vignette title page. Two brown silk ribbon page-markers. The spine title labels are absent. Light rubbing to the extremities. Barely perceptible numerical notation on front free endpaper. No white slip in the center of p. 481. All plates present. "An Unexpected After-Dinner Speech" facing p. 488 rather than p. 489. "Mr. Merdle a Borrower" facing p. 531 rather than p. 530. "At Mr. John Chivery's Tea-Table" facing p. 549, not p. 548. With three-line errata on page xiv. "Rigaud" is found on pp. 469-474. "B 2" on p. 371. "William" for "Frederick" on p. 317, line 27. All internal flaws as listed in Smith are present. Eckel, pp. 82-85. Smith 12. Collins (extract from the third volume of The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature), p. 803. With illustrations by H. K. Browne. A novel which criticizes the archaism of imprisonment for debt. "Little Dorrit" originally appeared in twenty numbers between 1855 and 1857. (Inventory #: 67699)