"Little Paul Dombey, Mr. Dombey, Florence, Walter, and Captain Cuttle" from “Dombey and Son” — Felix O. C. Darley's frontispiece for 'Dickens' Little Folks'" (1861)

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Little Paul Dombey, Mr. Dombey, Florence, Walter, and Captain Cuttle from “Dombey and Son”

Felix O. C. Darley

Annin-Loomis

1861

12 x 7.9 cm (4 ¾ by 3 ¼ inches) vignetted

Steel engraving

Frontispiece with Little Paul Dombey, Mr. Dombey, Florence, Walter, and Captain Cuttle for Dombey and Son in Dickens' Little Folks, originally published by Clark, Austin & Maynard (New York: 1861).

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Series: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Dickens' Little Folks. Note(s): "Preface," page [5], by an unsigned editor was [supposedly] written from Devonshire Terrace [Dickens's London residence]. In royal blue cloth with textured grain. Decorative frame stamped in blind on covers. Spine title stamped in gilt. Wood-engraved series title plate signed "N. Orr Co." (i. e., Nathaniel Orr) "Dickens' little folks." — Series title page. Series list, page [4]. Summary: Abridgement of Dickens' Dombey and Son .

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Bibliography

Bentley, Nicolas, Michael Slater, and Nina Burgis. The Dickens Index. New York and Oxford: Oxford U. P., 1990.

Cohen, Jane Rabb. Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators. Canton: Ohio U. P., 1980.

Darley, Felix Octavius Carr (illustrator). "Little Paul Dombey, Mr. Dombey, Florence, Walter, and Captain Cuttle" from “Dombey and Son” in Dickens' Little Folks. New York: Clark, Austin, Maynard & Co., 1862; rpt. John B. Alden, 1866.

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