Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection
Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection
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September 24, 03:31 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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DICKENS, CHARLES
The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s Progress. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846
8vo (222 x 138mm.), "New Edition, Revised and Corrected", half-title, 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, publisher’s brown cloth with garland in gilt on upper cover and in blind on lower cover, spine pictorial gilt, collector’s chemise and blue morocco backed slipcase, plates generally offset with browning to edges, contents recased, edges slightly bumped, upper joint weak at head, joints cracked, spine faded
As noted by Smith, the first single volume edition of Oliver Twist was published - whilst the ten monthly parts were still being issued - on 26 September 1846. Eckel notes that the price of the monthly parts was 10 shillings, but "that of the bound volume 11 shillings".
REFERENCE:
Smith, p. 37; Eckel, p. 63