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DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) [BROWNE, H.K.] : Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. With illustrations by H.K. Browne

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1848.

First Edition. 8vo.; pp. xvi, 624. Beautifully bound in recent brown half calf with gilt titles and extra gilt to spine; marbled boards with gilt rule. Illustrated throughout. Occasional and very light foxing to text; plates with some foxing as usual. A very elegant copy. The major novel 'Dombey and Son' weaves together a number of stories concerning a self-important merchant and his two children. As with much of Dickens' writing it contains a number of socially significant themes, particularly the then-prevalent common practice of arranged marriages for financial gain or as a form of slavery, also child cruelty (specifically Dombey's treatment of Florence), familial relationships, Death (the villainous Carker meets a rather horrific end, also the loss of Paul Dombey 'threw a whole nation into mourning' -Forster) and as ever with Dickens, betrayal and deceit and the consequences thereof.

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