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Author: Dickens, Charles
Title: The Adventures of Oliver Twist; Or, The Parish Boy's Progress
Place Published: London
Publisher:Bradbury & Evans
Date Published: 1846
Description: [iii]-xii, 311, [1] pp. With 23 of (24) steel-etched plates by George Cruikshank. 21x13.1 cm (8¼x5¼“), period quarter calf over pebbled cloth boards, raised bands, spine tooled in gilt; top edge gilt. New edition, revised and corrected.The first edition with the text substantially revised by Dickens. First published in 1838, a “second edition“ in 1838-39, and a “third edition“ in 1841, each in three volumes. The novel was then “revised and corrected“ by Dickens for the 1846 issuance in ten serial parts and for this corresponding one-volume octavo edition.

Joints rubbed and previously repaired, splitting to foot of front joint, corners bumped; hinges cracked, foxing throughout, a few plates repaired on verso with tape or with glue; good.