Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.An extremely good copy, handsomely bound. Light foxing to interior mainly affecting plates, text block split but cords holding after frontispiece, light wear to binding. Originally issued in 20 parts from April 1838 to October 1839. This copy with first state of the engraved frontispiece portrait of Dickens, and first state of plates 1-4, without the Chapman & Hall imprint at the bottom (partially trimmed in a couple of plates). Early mixed issue, with 'sister' not 'visiter' on page 123, line 17, and with 'letter' not 'latter' on page 160, 6 lines up, but with 32 of the 41 internal flaws set out by Smith.

The plot, the characters, the dialogue, everything about the book 'has the feel of theatre it is as if Dickens saw human life conducted among lights of the stage, making it somehow larger and brighter than the reality' (Ackroyd, 283). $2600.įirst edition, early issue, bound from parts, of one of Dickens' most popular novels, illustrated with 39 etchings by Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz') and the steel-engraved frontispiece portrait after the painting by Daniel Maclise. Octavo, 19th-century three-quarter brown calf, elaborately gilt- and blind-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled boards, endpapers, and edges. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. 'LARGER AND BRIGHTER THAN THE REALITY': NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, ATTRACTIVELY BOUNDĭICKENS, Charles.

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