Dickens Oliver Twist 1838
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DICKENS. FIRST BOOK EDITION. (3). (DICKENS, CHARLES), BOZ. Oliver Twist. I-III. London (R. Bentley) 1838.
8:o (about 188x115 mm.). With 3 engraved frontispieces, 21 engraved plates by George Cruikshank (all, mostly browned, some offsetting from plates to text).
Contemporary brown half leather, somewhat worn, spines in six compartments with title lettered in gold, marbled edges. Old signatures on titles. Bookplate of Lennart Båveryd
First edition, second issue.
Eckel pp. 59-62, Smith I:4.
Collation: I. (4 = half-title and title), (1)-331, (1 blank), (4, book advertisment), II. (4, half-title and title), (1)-307, (1 blank), (4, lacks advertisment leaf for Bentley´s standard novels), (1)-315, (1 blank) pp.
"Boz" on all three titles, no plate-list, "Rose Maylie and Oliver" plate by p. 313 in vol. III, Vol. I with the "t" in "encountered" indistinctly printed, vol. III with "pilaster" on page 164. The plates are here bound in to face pp. 29 48 98 132 152 186 248 and 302 in volume one, pp. 61 130 151 196 260 and 296 in volume two, and pp. 20 30 105 157 216 296 and 313 in volume three.
Unusually for Dickens´ novels, Oliver Twist was first issued complete in book form, rather than monthly serial parts. It did appear in "Bentley´s Miscellany" magazine but was not completed until April 1839.
Provenance: Sten Ringselle (1949-2017), Swedish antiquarian bookdealer who in 1992 opened his shop Antiquaria in Gothenburg.
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Auktionsnummer:
537141
Datum:
2018-06-19