1857
First edition in book form.
Published by Bradbury and Evans, London.
With 40 illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne aka Phiz including frontispiece and vignette title page.In Little Dorrit, Dickens mounts his single most ferocious onslaught against England and English society, against its government, against its financiers, against its artists and even against its ordinary citizens. Many (modern) critics regard it as Dickens’ masterpiece (Watts, 108).
Prelims and plates foxed.

R20,000