Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Title:
Dombey and Son / by Charles Dickens ; with sixty-two illustrations by F. Barnard.
Published / Created:
London : Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly, [1877]
Physical Description:
x, 449, [1] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR4559 .A1 1877
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary three-quarter green roan and marbled boards, with marbled endpapers. Bookplate: Rachel Baker Gale.

BEIN Gimbel/Dickens +D66 Set 3 3: Original wrappers.

Engravings by Dalziel; after Frederick Barnard.

Printed by Virtue and Co., Limited, City Road.

Date of publication from Topp.

Chapman and Hall originally issued the Household edition of Dickens's works in 101 monthly parts from July 1871 to January 1880; each volume was subsequently issued individually in wrappers and publishers' bindings. Dombey and Son began in part 67 (Jan. 1877) and concluded in part 74 (Aug. 1877).

Text printed in double columns.

Engraved vignette on title page.

In blue paper wrappers.

Series statement from wrapper.

Yale University. Dickens and Dickensiana, D66, 3rd set

Topp, C.W. Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, 1849-1905, v. 3, 591
Subject Terms:
Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction. | Fathers and daughters -- Fiction. | Dysfunctional families -- Fiction. | Businesspeople -- Fiction. | English literature -- 19th century. | Gale, Rachel Baker -- Bookplate | Ross, David and Judith -- Provenance
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1877.
Contributors:
Barnard, Frederick, 1846–1896 ill. | Dalziel Brothers engraver. | Chapman and Hall, publisher. | Virtue and Company, printer.