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DICKENS (CHARLES) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, Chapman and Hall, 1839
1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
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DICKENS (CHARLES)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, mixed issue with "sister" (line 17, p.123, second state) but "latter" (6 lines up, p.160, first state), half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece by Daniel Maclise, 39 etched plates by 'Phiz' (frontispiece and first 4 plates with Chapman and Hall imprint, following 4 plates without imprint), portrait foxed, some soiling and staining (mostly at edges of plates, heavy in places), a few chips at edges, pp.229-236 loosely inserted from another copy, untrimmed in publisher's green cloth with concentric rectangular blind rules (Smith's first binding), gilt lettered spine with remnant of paper label, plain endpapers (with binder's printed waste visible on paste-downs), shaken, worn and stained, upper joint torn, front hinge split [Eckel p.64; Smith I:5], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1839
Footnotes
An unsophisticated copy of the first edition in the first binding, with Collis's loosely inserted notes including intended repairs and cleaning that were never carried out.
Provenance: Rd. Jackson, Stockton, early ownership signature on front paste-down; "W.H.C. 3:11:1937/ From Elly today", Collis's note at foot of his list of issue points.

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