Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit (first edition with first issue points) - 1857

"Little Dorrit" by Charles Dickens and illustrated by H.K. Browne - Bradbury & Evans, London - 1857 first UK edition (with first issue points: "William"for "Frederick" on page 317, B2 instead of Bb2 on page 371, no errata on page 467 and "Rigaud"for "Blandois" on the pages 469 - 473) - 20cmx15cm - condition: good, in half leather binding, with some wear and rubbing to boards, With 40 illustrations by Hablot Knight Brown, including frontispiece and vignette title page. Little Dorrit is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Clennam encounters her after returning home from a 20-year absence, ready to begin his life anew. The novel satirises some shortcomings of British society and government at the time, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work and yet incarcerated until they had repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned. Dickens is also critical of the inert bureaucracy of the British government, in this novel in the form of the fictional "Circumlocution Office". In addition, Dickens satirises the stratification of society that results from the British class system.

Estimate:£230.18

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