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[DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)]. Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By 'Boz'. London: Richard Bentley, 1838.
First edition, copiously extra-illustrated, of this favourite Dickens novel. This set has authorship ascribed to 'Boz' on each title-page, the cancelled ‘Fireside’ plate in volume 3, and includes 90 additional illustrations. Eckel 59; Gimbel/Podeschi A27; Smith I, 4; Sadleir 696; Wolff 1808.
3 volumes, 12mo (201 x 122mm). Half-titles, with the list of Cruickshank illustrations in volume 1. Etched frontispiece in each volume and 21 plates after George Cruikshank including the ‘Fireside’ plate. Extra illustrated with a complete proof set of duplicate Cruikshank plates, the substitute plate in vol. 3 showing the Scene at St Agnes’s Tomb; two sets of 21 etchings by F.W. Pailthorpe, dated 1886, including one of 50 sets of India Proofs and one of 50 hand-coloured sets; 18 hand-coloured character sketches by 'Kyd'; 5 other engraved plates and an autograph note by George Cruikshank loosely inserted (some plates browned). Red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, top edges and turn-ins gilt, original cloth covers and spines bound in.
[Sold with:] manuscript volume, 216 written pages, by noted bibliographer Richard Herne Shepherd (1842-1895), recording the ‘passages and words afterwards altered or omitted’ in later editions of the novel. Shepherd published a bibliography of Dickens in 1880. Uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorf.
First edition, copiously extra-illustrated, of this favourite Dickens novel. This set has authorship ascribed to 'Boz' on each title-page, the cancelled ‘Fireside’ plate in volume 3, and includes 90 additional illustrations. Eckel 59; Gimbel/Podeschi A27; Smith I, 4; Sadleir 696; Wolff 1808.
3 volumes, 12mo (201 x 122mm). Half-titles, with the list of Cruickshank illustrations in volume 1. Etched frontispiece in each volume and 21 plates after George Cruikshank including the ‘Fireside’ plate. Extra illustrated with a complete proof set of duplicate Cruikshank plates, the substitute plate in vol. 3 showing the Scene at St Agnes’s Tomb; two sets of 21 etchings by F.W. Pailthorpe, dated 1886, including one of 50 sets of India Proofs and one of 50 hand-coloured sets; 18 hand-coloured character sketches by 'Kyd'; 5 other engraved plates and an autograph note by George Cruikshank loosely inserted (some plates browned). Red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, top edges and turn-ins gilt, original cloth covers and spines bound in.
[Sold with:] manuscript volume, 216 written pages, by noted bibliographer Richard Herne Shepherd (1842-1895), recording the ‘passages and words afterwards altered or omitted’ in later editions of the novel. Shepherd published a bibliography of Dickens in 1880. Uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorf.
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