Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 104

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress . . . A New Edition, Revised and Corrected. 24 illustrations by George Cruikshank, extra-illustrated with the insertion of additional plates. Large 4to, crushed burgundy morocco with gilt fillet borders and spines by MacDonald and Sons, rebacked retaining original backstrip, tips repaired but rubbed; bookplate of Cornelia Otis Skinner. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846

Additional Details

first edition, an extra-illustrated set compiled and bound by Curtis Guild in 1888 with an additional printed title-page stating that it is "Extended by the Insertion of numerous extra illustrations by Darley, Pailthorpe, Dalziel and others, collected from various sources by Curtis Guild. Boston. 1888." Provenance: Curtis Guild collection to Alden S. Blodget to Cornelia Otis Skinner.