DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM
OF
DOMBEY AND SON,
Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation
BY
Charles Dickens
LONDON
BRADBURY & EVANS BOUVERIE STREET
1848
DOMBEY AND SON.
BY
CHARLES DICKENS.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY H. K. BROWNE.
LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, 11, BOUVERIE STREET.
1848.
LONDON:
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.
THIS STORY IS DEDICATED,
WITH GREAT ESTEEM,
TO
THE MARCHIONESS OF NORMANBY.
PREFACE.
I cannot forego my usual opportunity of saying farewell to my readers in this greeting-place, though I have only to acknowledge the unbounded warmth and earnestness of their sympathy in every stage of the journey we have just concluded.
If any of them have felt a sorrow in one of the principal incidents on which this fiction turns, I hope it may be a sorrow of that sort which endears the sharers in it, one to another. This is not unselfish in me. I may claim to have felt it, at least as much as anybody else; and I would fain be remembered kindly for my part in the experience.
Devonshire Terrace,
Twenty-Fourth March, 1848.
ERRATA.
Page 494, first line of the chapter. For down stairs, read above stairs.
Page 497, line 29 from top. For you too, read you two.
ERRATA.
Page 97, line 23 from top—for "the register," read "that register."
{{{1}}}„100, line 23 from bottom—for "probably," read "possibly."
{{{1}}}„101, line 9 from bottom—for "dull crying," read "dull cooing."
{{{1}}}„102, line 20 from top—strike out "Quintius," before "Curtius."
{{{1}}}„105, line 3 from bottom— for "auspiciously," read "suspiciously."
{{{1}}}„112, line C from bottom— for "the first epistle," read "the first chapter of the epistle."
{{{1}}}„117, lines 3 and 4 from top—for "when you know I want them," read "when you know why I want them."
{{{1}}}„120, line 12 from top—for "Saturday," read "Saturdays."
{{{1}}}„121, line 12 from top—for "doing," read "being."
{{{1}}}„125, line 23 from top—insert a period after the words "have reason."
{{{1}}}„126, line 17 from bottom—for "voice," read "voices."
This work was published before January 1, 1927, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.