Nov 13, 2018 - Sale 2493

Sale 2493 - Lot 94

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?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. 3 volumes. 24 plates by George Cruikshank. Half-titles in volumes 1 and 2; 2-page advertisement at end of volume 3. 8vo, contemporary full green crushed morocco by Riviere & Sons, covers blocked in gilt, spines tooled in gilt in compartments, top edges gilt; inner dentelles. London: Richard Bentley, 1838
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first edition, first issue, with the original cloth bound in at end of each volume. Issue points include vol. 3 containing the suppressed "Fireside" plate facing p. 313 and "pilaster" in two places on text of p. 164, and authorship ascribed to "Boz" on each title-page. Cohn 239; Eckel p. 59; Gimble A27; Smith I:4.