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Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress

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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	Arents BIP (Dickens, C. Oliver Twist) AL 00-248	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328
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Additional Authors

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.

Description

3 v. : ill.; 19 cm.

Alternative Title

Parish boy's progress

Note

"In three volumes."
"London: Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street"--T.p. verso, v. 1; colophon, v. 1 and 3. "Whiting, Beaufort House"--T.p. verso, v. 2-3; "Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand"--Colophon, v. 2.
Serialized in Bentley's miscellany, Feb. 1837-Mar. 1839.
Vol. 1: [5], 331, [5] p., [9] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4], 307 p., [7] leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 315 p., [8] leaves of plates.
Illustrations: 24 prints : etching ; full-page. Signed: George Cruikshank. Final plate in v. 3 shows the "fireside" scene, "usually taken as a feature of early issue"--Podeschi.
List of plates: v. 1, p. [5] (1st group) (not present in earliest issues; cf. Eckel).
Publisher's advertisements: v. 1, p. [2] (1st group), [333-336]; v. 2, p. [2] (1st group); v. 3: p. [1-2] (1st group).
Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, blind-stamped and gilt; yellow endpapers. For binding variants, cf. Podeschi. Without publisher's name on spine, "a mark of the earliest issue"--Carr.

Indexed In (note)

Call Number

MEM C955dic (Dickens C. Oliver Twist)

LCCN

01005375

OCLC

NYPG00-B7254

Author

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

Title

Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress / by "Boz."

Imprint

London : Richard Bentley, 1838.

Indexed In:

Carr, L. VanderPoel Dickens, B87(2)

Podeschi, J.B. Dickens, A27 (3rd copy)

Eckel, J.C. First editions of Dickens (1932 ed.), p. 59-62

Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, a catalogue raisonné, 239

Reid, G.W. George Cruikshank, 1850-1872, 1874

Local Note

Provenance (Arents copy): J.F. Starkey (autograph in v. 1; armorial bookplate in v. 1-3).

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Local Subject

Starkey, J. F. Provenance.

Added Author

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.

Research Call Number

MEM C955dic (Dickens C. Oliver Twist)

Arents BIP (Dickens, C. Oliver Twist) AL 00-248