Description: Charles Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit 1844 1st UK NF First edition with MDCCCXLIV (1844) illustrated frontispiece and MDCCCXLIV (1844) on title page. First printing of text with all issue points satisfied: etched plates including frontispiece and title-page vignette by Hablot K. Browne aka "Phiz," errata leaf arranged over 14 lines, "100£" on the signpost of engraved title page. Publisher London Chapman and Hall, 1844. Octavio 8" x 5" [vi] 7-239 [i Blank]. The title page states "The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens. Rebound in brown leather with five bands, gilt titles to the spine with 1844 at the foot, front cover has illustration of Dickens and rear cover has stamped Dickens signature (both in gilt). Illustrated by Phiz. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Page edges in gilt. Book Condition: Near Fine No flaws Text and illustrations are very clear. Set partly in America, which Dickens had visited in 1842, the novel includes a searing satire on the United States. Martin Chuzzlewit is the story of two Chuzzlewits, Martin and Jonas, who have inherited the characteristic Chuzzlewit selfishness. It contrasts their diverse fates of moral redemption and worldly success for one, with increasingly desperate crime for the other. This powerful black comedy involves hypocrisy, greed and blackmail, as well as the most famous of Dickens's grotesques, Mrs Gamp.
Price: 750 USD
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Illustrator: Phiz
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Topic: Classics
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1844
