Oct 10, 2019 - Sale 2519

Sale 2519 - Lot 261

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
DICKENS, CHARLES. Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz." 3 volumes. 24 plates by George Cruikshank. Half-titles in volumes 1 and 2. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 green morocco, spines tooled in gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, minor rubbing to spine tips and joints, corners bumped; bookplate to front pastedown and flyleaf, tidemark to upper outer blank margin of last 15 pp. extending to endpapers in vol. 2. London: Richard Bentley, 1838

Additional Details

first edition, first issue with cancelled "Fireside" plate facing page 313 in third volume; and "Boz" credited as author on all title-pages. Cohn 239; Eckel p. 59; Gimble A27; Smith I:4.