The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition in book form, mixed state. Leather bound. xvi; 624pp. Octavo [22 cm] Rebound in modern light brown leather with four brown leather gilt stamped spine labels. New black endpapers. Lacking the half title. Frontispiece portrait of Dickens with Chapman and Hall imprint very faintly and only partially present along the bottom edge of the page (the imprint is trimmed at the foot). The first four illustrations do not have the Chapman and Hall imprint. Plates darkened and foxed. Plate at p. 351 heavily darkened. Pages of text toned. A bit of staining on p. 17/18 (text very legible). "Sister" on p. 123. With many of the internal flaws listed in Smith: I. The following exceptions are present: No spacing in "Distresses"; the word "in" is present in the caption of Phiz's third plate (p. 248); caption of plate at p. 356 reads simply "Linkinwater"; no semicolon in caption of plate at p. 373; comma is present p. 46, line 3; p. 160- "letter"; p. 198- "yesterday". Eckel, pp. 64-66. Smith: I, 5. Very Good. Item #71444
With illustrations by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne). An early issue of this early novel by Dickens, the story of a young man as he struggles to make his fortune in Victorian England. The work stands out for its strong criticism of society's poor treatment of children and the brutality of the educational system. It was originally published in twenty monthly installments.
Price: $300.00