Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection

Charles Dickens: The Lawrence Drizen Collection

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Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, 1839, first edition in book form

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September 24, 03:31 PM GMT

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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