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DICKENS, CHARLES. Oliver Twist or, The Parish Boy's Progress. 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank. 3 volumes. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered

DICKENS, CHARLES. Oliver Twist or, The Parish Boy's Progress. 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank. 3 volumes. 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered cloth without the Bentley imprint on spines, lightly spotted, spines somewhat faded; hinges cracked on first and third volumes, scattered minor foxing and soiling; housed in individual cloth chemises within a 1/2 blue morocco slipcase with some soiling and a chip at head of spine. London: Richard Bentley, 1838

  • Notes: first edition, first issue, with "Boz" listed as the author; Volume 1 with illustrations leaf bound after title and all textual flaws outlined by Smith except that the "t" in "encountered" on line 8, page 35 is not battered; Volume 3 contains the "Fireside" plate and required leaf of advertisements preceding the title. Smith I, 4; Sadleir 696.

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