Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection
Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection
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September 24, 03:31 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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DICKENS, CHARLES
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839
8vo (222 x 135mm.), FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece by Daniel Maclise in first state (Chapman and Hall imprint present), 39 engraved plates by 'Phiz' (Hablot K. Browne) in earlier issue (Chapman and Hall imprint present for first four illustrations), original dark olive green fine-diaper cloth, covers with blind-stamped border, spine in blind stamped panels with lettering in gilt, light yellow endpapers, occasional browning, plates occasionally offset and browned in margins, front free endpaper and half-title very slightly frayed at fore-edge, frontispiece tissue guard slightly torn, cloth slightly cockled on upper cover, some minor professional restoration to head and foot of spine, professional repairs to hinges
First edition in book form, in the primary binding with plates in the earlier issue. Page 123 has corrected reading "sister" and page 160 has uncorrected "latter".
REFERENCE:
Smith I:5