Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Title:
Dombey and Son.
Published / Created:
Bloomsbury : The Nonesuch Press, 1937.
Physical Description:
xx, [2], 880, [2] pages, [42] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This edition of Dombey and Son, part of the Nonesuch Dickens designed by Francis Meynell, is limited to 877 copies. The text has been printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark Ltd., in this specially-cut version of Martin's type; the illustrations have been pulled by hand from the original plates by A. Alexander and Sons; the binding is executed by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co., Ltd.; and the paper was made by the Worthy Paper Company Association of West Springfield."--Colophon.
Subject Terms:
Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction. | Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. | Dysfunctional families -- Fiction. | Businesspeople -- Fiction. | England -- Fiction. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. | Domestic fiction.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London. | Fiction. | Etchings -- 1938. | Wood engravings -- 1938. | Domestic fiction.
Contributors:
Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815–1882, illustrator. | Meynell, Francis, 1891–1975, book designer. | Nonesuch Press, publisher. | R. & R. Clark (Firm), printer. | Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co., binder.