The Adventures of Oliver Twist; Or, The Parish Boy's Progress

London: Published for the Author by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected. Leather Bound. Very Good. George Cruikshank. With the Author's Preface for the Third Edition. 311pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Bound in a contemporary full brown leather, with gilt stamped ornamental designs on the spine, the publication date at the foot of the spine, and double gilt-ruled borders on the covers. All edges gilt. Turn-ins gilt. Two brown silk ribbon page-markers. Spine title labels absent. Light rubbing to the extremities. A few small mottled stains on the front board. Very faint numerical notation to front free endpaper. Tiny stains in the top margins of pp. 293-301 (a couple of them are a bit darker, but most of them are barely visible). No half title. "Oliver's Asking for More" is bound in opposite the title page rather than being found at p. 9. All plates are present. Smith 4. Eckel, p. 59-63. Collins (extract from the third volume of The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature), pp. 791/92. With Twenty-four illustrations on steel, by George Cruikshank.

An early edition of Dickens's classic tale exploring themes of poverty, crime, and the corruption of societal institutions. The Adventures of Oliver Twist was first published serially under the pseudonym "Boz" from 1837 to 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany and in a three-volume book in 1838. (Inventory #: 67717)