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- Frontisp. and etched title browned; plates sl. foxed as usual; bookplate on upper pastedown; new endpapers.
= Eckel p.77-78; Sadleir 686; Muir p.94-96; Harvey p.142-151. Most points indicating a first issue are present: our copy has the following points: on p.132 "screwed" instead of "screamed"; chapter XXVII on page 282 and not page 283 as listed on the contents page; on p.16, line 1 and p.225, line 22: ''recal'' instead of ''recall''; p.19, 12 lines from the bottom: ''cha pter ;ut''; on p.387, 6 lines from the bottom: ''coroboration'' instead of ''corroboration''; on p.472, 13 lines from the bottom there is no closing of the quotation marks; ''1850'' under the publishers' imprint on the engraved title-page, i.a. the date 1850 below the etched title.
Idem. Little Dorrit. Ibid., idem, 1857, 1st ed., XIV,625,(1)p., steelengr. title-p. and 40 plates by H.K. BROWNE (= PHIZ), contemp. gilt hcalf w. red mor. letterpiece.
- Lacks the List of plates; the plates occas. sl. foxed; new endpapers. Upper joint split(ting).
= First edition w. the following points: "Wiliam" for "Frederick" on p.317, line 27; B2 instead of BB2 on p.371; and "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on p.469, 472, and 473; three line errata on page XIV. Eckel p.84f; Sadleir 691.