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London: Robson & Kerslake, 1886. leather_bound. Uniformly bound brown morocco. Teg. Very good/Near fine. 3 Vols. 331, 307, 315 pages. 20.5 x 13 cm. Facsimile edition of the 1836 edition uniformly bound by Zaehnsdorf with the original brown cloth covers laid-in. Limited edition copy 114 of fifty sets with twenty-one colored etchings by F.W. Pailthrope. and black and white etchings by George Cruikshank. Raised bands, gilt floret decorated panels, triple gilt cover border panels, and marbled endpapers. Interior contents clean and fresh.

Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial from 1837 to 1839. The story centers on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the 'Artful Dodger', a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin.