Oliver Twist

London Richard Bentley, 1839. Second edition, complete in three volumes. Oliver Twist was first published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and released as a three-volume book in 1838 before the serialization ended. Here we have the second edition released just one year later and still preserved in their original bindings, which is quite uncommon.

Book: Very good. Dust jacket: None. Bound in scarce publisher’s original purple/brown cloth, with titles in gilt to spines and blindstamping to boards. A full suite of plates by George Cruikshank. Collated as fully complete throughout. Externally the cloth is moderately soiled, spines sunned and some trace of prior liquid/humidity damage to back board of volume three. No interior pages affected and internally clean aside from moderate foxing to prelims and engravings. Corners bumped and fraying. Professionally recased, preserving the original bindings throughout.