DICKENS, Charles. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, 1839, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, later issue, half title, 2-page autograph letter by Macready tipped-in, steel-engraved portrait frontispiece by Finden after Maclise, 39 etched plates by H. K. Browne, extra-illustrated with a further 32 etched plates by Peter Palette and Onwhyn (lacking publisher's catalogue, small repair to outer margin of frontispiece, clean tear to L5 just affecting text, some plates browned and spotted), early 20th-century green morocco (spine faded, lower joints cracked), t.e.g., partly uncut. [Eckel p. 64; Podeschi A41]