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[DICKENS, Charles]. Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz". London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
3 volumes, 12o (201 x 122 mm). 4-page integral publisher's advertisement at end volume one, 2-pages at beginning volume 3. Etched frontispiece in each volume and 21 plates after George Cruikshank (publisher's imprints trimmed from three plates, some pale offsetting of plates onto text). Original brown fine-diaper cloth, covers decorated with elaborate blind arabesques, spines in five blind-ruled compartments, gilt lettered in two, with publisher's imprint at foot, yellow endpapers, uncut [Carter binding variant B] (spines slightly faded); cloth slipcase. Provenance: H.D. Ackins (signatures on titles).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST ENGLISH NOVEL TO FEATURE A YOUNG CHILD AS PROTAGONIST, with the "Fireside" plate at p. 312 in volume 3 and authorship ascribed to "Boz" on each title-page. Begun as a serial in Bentley's Miscellany in February 1837 but published in three volumes (as here) before its completion in the magazine in March 1839. The decision to publish in book form caused Cruikshank to complete his illustrations in some haste. Dickens did not have time to review them until the eve of publication and he objected to the "Fireside" plate which depicted Oliver at Rose Maylie's knee with Harry and old Mrs. Maylie all gathered around the living-room fire. Cruikshank's revised illustration had the same title ("Rose Maylie and Oliver") but showed Rose and Oliver standing before Oliver's mother's church memorial. This later plate was used to illustrate Oliver Twist as it appeared in Bentley's Miscellany and later issues of the book. Carter, p. 107; Eckel, p. 59-60; Sadleir 696; Smith I: 4.
[Laid-in:] CRUIKSHANK, George. Autograph address panel, 8vo, 48 Mornington Place, Hampstead Road," to "Col the Honble R. Fulke Greville," presumably Robert Fulke Greville, politician, soldier and Victorian landowner. (3)
3 volumes, 12o (201 x 122 mm). 4-page integral publisher's advertisement at end volume one, 2-pages at beginning volume 3. Etched frontispiece in each volume and 21 plates after George Cruikshank (publisher's imprints trimmed from three plates, some pale offsetting of plates onto text). Original brown fine-diaper cloth, covers decorated with elaborate blind arabesques, spines in five blind-ruled compartments, gilt lettered in two, with publisher's imprint at foot, yellow endpapers, uncut [Carter binding variant B] (spines slightly faded); cloth slipcase. Provenance: H.D. Ackins (signatures on titles).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST ENGLISH NOVEL TO FEATURE A YOUNG CHILD AS PROTAGONIST, with the "Fireside" plate at p. 312 in volume 3 and authorship ascribed to "Boz" on each title-page. Begun as a serial in Bentley's Miscellany in February 1837 but published in three volumes (as here) before its completion in the magazine in March 1839. The decision to publish in book form caused Cruikshank to complete his illustrations in some haste. Dickens did not have time to review them until the eve of publication and he objected to the "Fireside" plate which depicted Oliver at Rose Maylie's knee with Harry and old Mrs. Maylie all gathered around the living-room fire. Cruikshank's revised illustration had the same title ("Rose Maylie and Oliver") but showed Rose and Oliver standing before Oliver's mother's church memorial. This later plate was used to illustrate Oliver Twist as it appeared in Bentley's Miscellany and later issues of the book. Carter, p. 107; Eckel, p. 59-60; Sadleir 696; Smith I: 4.
[Laid-in:] CRUIKSHANK, George. Autograph address panel, 8vo, 48 Mornington Place, Hampstead Road," to "Col the Honble R. Fulke Greville," presumably Robert Fulke Greville, politician, soldier and Victorian landowner. (3)