Books

16 volumes, octavo, 12 volumes are full leather, fading marbled edges, marbled endpapers, foxing throughout, two volumes rebound in brown boards, 2 volumes half-leather with worn boards, all ex-library with spine labels and rubber stamps to page edges of rebound books. Leather scuffed and worn, a few volumes splitting at front gutter, the rebound copies are tight with clean boards. There are no marks to the text, large dampstain to volume 3, titles on backstrips are worn but clean. Volumes 6 and 8 are rebound, Volumes 4 and 10 are half-leather. All other volumes are full leather. Dozens of famed authors of the period, particularly rare Dickens & Poe stories in their first iterations.

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.