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DICKENS, CHARLES.
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress.
3 vol-
umes. 24 plates by George Cruikshank. Half-titles in volumes 1 and 2. 8vo, contemporary
full polished tan calf, gilt rule
covers, spine tooled in gilt in
compartments, red and green
morocco lettering pieces, joints
rubbed slightly with light touch-
ups, top edges gilt, inner dentelles,
by Bayntun Riviere, original cloth
covers bound in to each volume
(Carter’s B binding with imprint
at foot of spine), internally quite
clean with only minor occasional
foxing.
London: Richard Bentley, 1838
[2,500/3,500]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST ISSUE
.
Finely
bound, with full title and “Boz” on
the title page rather than Dickens.
With vol. 3 containing the “Fireside”
plate facing p. 313 and “pilaster” in
two places on text of p. 164. Carter,
Binding Variants p. 107; Cohn 239;
Eckel p. 59; Gimble A27; Smith I:4.
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DICKENS, CHARLES.
The
Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Frontispiece,
title vignette and illustrations by S. Luke
Fildes. 8vo, contemporary
1
/
2
brown calf,
gilt-rule spine with morocco lettering piece,
rubbing to extremities; custom clamshell
box.
FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM
. Eckel,
pp. 96-98.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870
[500/750]