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Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son : wholesale, retail, and exportation / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations, engraved on Wood by J.W. Orr from the designs by H.K. Browne.

Accession number
PML 132077-95
Creator
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Published
New York : Wiley and Putnam, 1846-1848.
Credit line
Bequest; Gordon N. Ray; 1987.
Notes
Cover title.
Publishers' advertisements on printed paper wrappers.
The first American edition in the original parts. The text for this edition was set and printed as soon as the English parts (London : Bradbury & Evans, 1846-48) arrived, and without waiting for the accompanying plates to be engraved. Consequently, on each cover is the note, "The illustrations for this number will be given with the next."
Title page and other preliminary pages included in final part: Dombey and Son / by Charles Dickens ; With illustrations by H.K. Browne. New York : John Wiley (of late firm of Wiley and Putnam), 1848.
Description
20 parts in 19 (939 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
original wrappers.
Classification
Department