OLIVER TWIST
Beautifully bound early edition of OLIVER TWIST, in full calf gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
Near fine.
Price: $1,200.00
OLIVER TWIST
"For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception — he was brought up by hand."
Dickens's second novel, OLIVER TWIST, provided the author with an ideal canvas for his most furious and dazzling rages against injustice, against hypocrisy, against poverty, and against base corruption. At its center is the pure and put-upon Oliver, flung from the cruelty of the orphanarium into the viciousness of a den of thieves, surely the most virtuous and long-suffering of all shining Victorian child-saints — at least, of all those who survive the three-volume novels in which they find themselves — and around him orbit a selection some of the most memorable villains in English literature.
Read more: Podeschi, Dickens and Dickensiana, A39.
The Object
London: for the author by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. Full title: The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, the parish boy's progress. 8.5'' x 5.25''. Full early 20th-century tan calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, raised bands, gilt-stamped spines, olive morocco spine label; one spine label lacking. All edges gilt, green endpapers, gilt dentelles. Illustrated by George Cruikshank with 24 full-page engraved plates. xii, 311, [1] pages. A couple spots and some bits of rubbing to boards. Interior gently toned, else unusually clean.
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