Charles Dickens — Little Dorrit

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition. Leather. A first edition, first issue of Charles Dickens' 'Little Dorrit', a critical novel on the state of Victorian society, government and institutions. First edition, first issue with the points as called for including: the three line errata on page xiv, "William" for "Frederick" on page 317 line 27, B2 instead of BB2 on pp. 371, lacking errata on page 467, and "Rigaud" for "Blandois" on pp. 469, 470, 472, and 473.Bound in signed contemporary half calf by 'Riley Binder Manchester', with marbled boards and endpapers.Illustrated by H. K. Browne or 'Phiz', with a frontispiece, illustrated title page, and thirty-eight plates. Collated, complete. 'Little Dorrit' centres around Amy Dorrit, the youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison. Drawing on Dickens' own experiences of his father being imprisoned in Marshalsea, the novel satirises the injustices of the contemporary English legal system. Bound in signed contemporary half calf by 'Riley Binder Manchester', with marbled boards and endpapers.  Externally, front hinge failed. Rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. With occasional scattered spotting, heaviest to the margins of the plates, as is commonly found. 'Robert Knight' ink impressed to front blank. Good . Ill.: H. K. Browne. Good .