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Half titles, fronts & plates by George Cruikshank, 4pp ads vol. I; sl. spotting or browning to plates. Uncut in orig. purple-brown vertical-grained cloth, imprints at tails of spines; carefully recased. A good-plus copy.

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.