Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 1,020
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
DICKENS, CHARLES. Oliver Twist. 3 volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 with half-titles, illustrated with 24 engraved plates by George Cruikshank, as called for. 8vo, contemporary full russet morocco, covers with gilt borders and cornerpieces, spines decoratively gilt-tooled, scattered staining to covers, mild corner wear, boards edges and turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt, by Morley Bros.; foxing to plates, a few heavily, text mostly clean, old ownership inscription to top of title-page of first two volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1838

Additional Details

first edition, with authorship ascribed to "Boz" on each title-page, second issue with substituted plate in volume 3. Lacking 4 pp. advertisements at rear of volume 1, and 2 pp. advertisements at front of volume 3, otherwise ads as called for. Eckel, pp. 59-62.