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SOLD FOR $2,360
Oliver Twist
By Charles Dickens
Publisher: London: Richard Bentley, 1838. Hardback. Three volume set. First edition, first issue – title page of all volumes gives the author as “Boz” and contains the ‘Fireside plate’ in Vol. III which was disliked by Dickens and removed in later editions. Handsomely bound in half brown calf leather with marbled boards. Five raised bands to spine, gilt titling and simple tooled decoration to bands and compartments, date embossed to very bottom of spine. Boards are overall in very good + condition showing only very minor scuffing to corners and to top and tail of spine. With 24 etched illustrations by George Cruikshank – 9 to Vol I (incl. frontis), 7 to Vol. II (incl. frontis), 8 to Vol III (incl. fronits and the ‘Fireside Plate’ which was replaced in later issues by the ‘Church plate’). Contents are lightly browned and foxed throughout, mainly to the margins and to plates. pp 331 + 307 + 315. Overall, a great copy in first edition of this well-loved Dickens’s title.
Suggested estimate $3000-5000
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