London: Chapman & Hall, 1844. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. H.K. Browne (Phiz). This is a Fine first edition, bound in leather and marbled boards, with gilt to spine. With forty engraved illustrations, including frontispiece and title page, by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). Binder's error has 1848 embossed on spine rather than the correct 1844. Fourteen-line errata following table of contents but with pound sign preceding "100" on signpost on title page thus an early issue of the first edition. Excellent condition with minor foxing and browning to pages. In particular, the plate edges have remarkably little of the discolouration common in Dickens first editions. Slight staining to very top edge of "Nuptials" plate. Neat repair to outer edge of pages 609 and 610. A wonderful Dickens first edition, beautifully bound, bibliographically interesting with the mixed points and, in particular, with barely blemished page engravings.

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While writing Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens declared it 'immeasurably the best of my stories.' Set partly in America, 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, and increasingly desperate crime for the other. This powerful comedy involves hypocrisy, greed, and blackmail, as well as the most famous of Dickens's grotesques, Mrs. Gamp. Martin Chuzzlewit is considered one of Dickens's last picaresque novels.

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Bookseller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 12208
Title: Martin Chuzzlewit
Author: Charles Dickens
Illustrator: H.K. Browne (Phiz)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1844
Keywords: literature, British, Dickens
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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