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Title: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Dickens, Charles Description: [iii]-xvi, 624 pp. 39 plates by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne). Extra-illustrated with the insertion of 23 plates by Kenny Meadows and 32 plates by Thomas Onwhyn. (8vo) 8½x5¼, later red half morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, black leather spine label lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition bound from the original parts.Mixed state with first printing points of printers imprint present on first few plates; 'latter' uncorrected at page 160, 6 lines up; "incsribed" on page 238, 8 lines up; but with later issue point of 'vister' corrected to 'sister' page 123, line 17. Gimbel A41; Smith 5. Heading: Place Published: London Publisher: Chapman and Hall Date Published: 1839 Condition reportLight wear to extremities, hinges cracked; lacking half-title and portrait frontispiece; else very good.
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