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DICKENS, CHARLES The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839 8vo (206 x 128mm.), FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, EARLY ISSUE, without half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece by Daniel Maclise in second state without publisher's imprint, 39 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne "Phiz", plates 1 and 2 present in first state with publisher's imprint, contemporary full dark green polished calf gilt, spine with inlaid calf label lettered in gilt, plates browed and offset, binding slightly scuffed, extremities bumped, lower joint weak This copy comprises first issue text in accordance with the first issue of original parts with the early uncorrected 'visiter' at line 17 p. 123 and 'latter' 6 lines up p. 160. These coupled with the first states of plates 1 and 2 indicate this copy was bound up from very early sheets. LITERATURE: Smith I: 5 PROVENANCE: Markham Law, ownership inscription 1865; M. Wade, ownership inscriptionCondition reportCondition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate The lot is sold in the condition it is in at the time of sale. The