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1859 Davenport Dunn; A Man of Our Day
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding
The first one volume edition, first published serially.
Illustrated by 'Phiz', with a monochrome frontispiece, engraved title page, and fifty-two monochrome plates. Collated, complete.
Charles Lever's fiction novel following a financier called Davenport Dunn, who finds himself involved in a banking crisis. The novel features themes of political and economic unrest, ambition and social class.
Bound in contemporary half calf with cloth to the boards. Retaining endpapers and blanks.
Condition
Bound in contemporary half calf with cloth to the boards. Retaining endpapers and blanks. Externally, slight fading and cracking to the spine, with light rubbing to the extremities and joints. Bookplate of 'J Lamont of Knockdow' to the front pastedown, with spotting to the endpapers and a label to the front free endpaper. Internally firmly bound with bright pages and occasional minor spotting.
Very Good
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