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London: Published for the Author by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected. Leather Bound. Very Good. George Cruikshank. With the Author's Preface for the Third Edition. 311pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Bound in a contemporary full brown leather, with gilt stamped ornamental designs on the spine, the publication date at the foot of the spine, and double gilt-ruled borders on the covers. All edges gilt. Turn-ins gilt. Two brown silk ribbon page-markers. Spine title labels absent. Light rubbing to the extremities. A few small mottled stains on the front board. Very faint numerical notation to front free endpaper. Tiny stains in the top margins of pp. 293-301 (a couple of them are a bit darker, but most of them are barely visible). No half title. "Oliver's Asking for More" is bound in opposite the title page rather than being found at p. 9. All plates are present. Smith 4. Eckel, p. 59-63. Collins (extract from the third volume of The New Cambridge…

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.