Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870] DOMBEY And SON. London: Chapman & Hall, 1858. Original green blindstamped cloth with elaborate gilt-decorated spine. 324 pp. Text double column. Frontispiece. 8vo. 7-3/4" x 5". 1st Cheap edition (in volume form). Slight lean. Spine panel sunned. Old repair to top 1" of rear joint. Lacks ffep, with old brown tape reinforcement to hinge. A Gd+ copy.

The "Cheap" edition the first systematic reissuance of Dickens' works and begun in 1847, with Pickwick Papers, in weekly, monthly & volume formats. The edition characterised by the double column format, illustrated solely with a frontispiece, and contains a new preface by Dickens written expressly for this edition.