J O N K E R S R A R E B O O K S
9. Oliver Twist DICKENS, Charles
Bradbury & Evans, 1846. First one volume edition. Original blue-grey cloth with blind ornamental border to the covers and gilt wreath vignette to the upper cover. Twen- ty-four steel engravings by George Cruikshank. A fine copy, bright and crisp with barely a hair out of place. Internally clean with just slight browning to the edges of some of the plates. An exceptional copy. Housed in quarter morocco, clamshell case. [40857] £5,000 Dickens’s second novel, originally published in three volumes in 1838. Such was its popularity that Dickens was persuaded by his new publishers to revise the work and have it issued in a sin- gle volume with new illustrations. Uncommon in cloth, particularly so well preserved.
10. The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby DICKENS, Charles Chapman & Hall, 1839. First edition. Publisher’s primary binding of dark green fine diaper cloth, with plain ruled borders in blind to covers and titles in gilt on the spine. Bound from the parts with plain uncoated endpapers. Plates in the earliest state with imprints at the base of the frontispiece and first four plates. Contemporary inscription and later bookplate to front pastedown. Steel engraved frontispiece of Dickens after D. Maclise, and 39 steel engraved plates by Phiz. A very good copy indeed, small split to the joint. A crisp copy with minimal wear, frontispiece foxed, but generally clean with a little browning to the occasional plate. An excellent copy. [40856] £7,500 The author’s third novel. Seldom encountered in good original cloth.
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