Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens 1839 FIRST EDITION FIRST IMPRESSION Scarce

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Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens, illustrated by 'Phiz' and published by Chapman and Hall in 1839. FIRST EDITION FIRST IMPRESSION

with all required first impression points (below), Smith(1.1)

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• 'visiter' for 'sister' pp.123 line 17

• 'latter' for 'letter' pp.160

• 'flys' for 'flies' pp.245 line 10

• The first four plates have Chapman & Hall at the bottom

Condition: Very Good (VG)

Text block very clean with light toning, and sporadic and very minor foxing. All plates present including frontispiece. Some minor wear and rubbing to the spine. Minor damage to tooled label. Very small fragments of the spine are very lightly detached around the edges due to broken joints. Minor damage to headcap and tail. Both boards attached with front board being partially detached but held on at the top with binding string (refer to photographs). Very minor rubbing, marks, superficial scratches and scuffing on boards. Shelf wear. Light dulling to page edges. Bookplate attached to front pastedown. Pencil inscription on preliminary. Light toning and minor foxing on endpapers. Frontispiece and title page lightly toned with some minor foxing. Plates prominently toned around the edges, else lightly toned with minor foxing (refer to photos for examples). Pages 615 to 618 including plate are detached from the text block (attached to each other).

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