Oliver Twist;

First Edition, First Issue with Boz title-pages and the Fireside plate. Bentley decided to publish Oliver in book form before serialization was complete, and Cruikshank had to complete the last few plates in a hurry. Dickens did not see them until the eve of publication and disliked the final Fireside plate. Cruikshank designed a replacement, the Church plate, but early copies went out without it. Dickens had also decided that he would no longer be known as "Boz"; again this decision was too late for the earliest copies, those published between 9 and 16 November.

3 volumes, 8vo. Handsomely bound c.1900 by Zaehnsdorf for A. C. McClure & Co. in polished tan calf, spines with wide low raised bands gilt, three contrasting green labels, gilt ornaments in other compartments, covers ruled in gilt with a French fillet, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; original covers and spines bound in. 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank. With half-titles in vols. I and II, as called for; bound without terminal advert leaf in vol. I. Spines very slightly sunned and rubbed, the contents generally clean, an excellent copy.