Dealings With The Firm Of Dombey And Son, Wholesale, Retail And For Exportation. [Extra-Illustrated]. Dickens, Charles; Illustrated By Browne, H. K.:

First edition. Octavo. Nicely bound in contemporary half purple-brown morocco over purple-brown pebble-grained cloth boards, the spine with six raised bands, ruled in gilt, and with titles in gilt. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and title page and 38 further plates by Halbot Knight Browne (aka 'Phiz'). Extra-illustrated with 12 additional plates by Browne depicting the principal characters of the novel (52 engraved plates in total). Two-line errata page bound in after the list of plates. Lacks half-title. A good copy, the binding square and firm with some marking to the boards and bumping to the corners. The contents with spotting to the plates (as commonly encountered), two plates with a small nick to the edge with neat old paper repairs to the verso, a 2.5cm hole to the bottom of one plate (between pp.564-5) with loss to the caption, 2cm clipped from the head of the printed title page (apparently to remove a previous owner's signature) and with subsequent owner's name in ink, a small chip to the blank bottom-left corner of p.xv, a 3cm tear to p.219, a paper-repaired tear to p.495/6, a few small nicks to some pages at the gutter from the binding process, and the odd mark to the text pages, more so to p.213, are otherwise in good order. The first edition in book form of Dicken's 'Dombey and Son', the novel being originally issued in monthly parts between 1846 and 1848. An attractive extra-illustrated copy.