DICKENS, Charles.. [Oliver Twist.] The Adventures of Oliver Twist or, The parish boy's progress. With 24 illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank. New edition, revised and corrected.. Bradbury & Evans. 1846, 1846.

Price: US$20598.39 + shipping

Description: Half title, plates. With the original green variant cloth casing, bound into full green crushed morocco by Rivière & Son, spine gilt in compartments, triple-ruled borders & dentelles in gilt; spine very sl. faded. A very handsome copy. In cloth slipcase. A beautiful copy of the first one-volume edition, EXTRA ILLUSTRATED with George Cruikshank's original watercolour design of Fagin in the Condemned Cell. This constitutes one of Cruikshank's finest and most recognisable Dickens illustration, portraying the wretched Fagin seated in his cell at Newgate, anxiously awaiting the day of his execution, and contemplating his demise. Bound in opposite the plate at p.304, the watercolour is signed by Cruikshank, and also adorned, in the lower margin, with a small self-portrait in pencil, and three further unidentified sketched portraits.

Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom