Nicholas Nickleby.
London: Chapman & Hall, 1839.
8vo, (iii)-xvi, 624 pp. lacking half title. With frontispiece portrait of Dickens and 39 plates by "Phiz." Half green morocco, marbled sides and endpapers, backstrip gilt with red leather title label. Boards and backstrip ends lightly worn, hinges strengthened, contents with scattered foxing, plates browned and sometimes stained to a greater or lesser degree, as usual. A respectable copy.
§ First edition in book form of Dickens' enormously successful third novel. Only four of Smith's list of textual flaws corrected (the slightly high "s" in "its" on p.10, the slightly high "the" in "then" on p.467, the imperfect printing of "here" on p.41, and "yesterday's" on p.198). Errors on p. 123 and 160 found "in some copies bound from early parts" both present. First state of the frontispiece and first four plates. Linkinwater illustration is Phiz's fourth plate. Smith I, 5. Item #126020
Price: $1,250.00