?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) Oliver Twist.
London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
First edition, first issue in book form, three octavo volumes; with the "Fireside Plate" present in vol. III; illustrated with 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank; bound in quarter red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered and decorated spine, all edges marbled (lacking half titles and ads; plates with varying degrees of foxing and marginal toning; minor spotting, sporadic offsetting, rare thumbing, a few corner creases, open tear to page 297 of vol. III; trimmed, rubbed, especially at corners, small losses to leather at spine ends; J.A. Joseph ex-libris book stamp to front pastedowns); 7 3/8 x 4 1/4 in.
Eckel, pp. 59-63; Podeschi/Gimbel A27; Sadleir 696; Smith 4.
