Oliver Twist.

First edition of Dickens' classic second novel. Octavo, three volumes bound in full polished calf with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, botanical gilt tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, illustrated with 24 etched plates including frontispiece after George Cruikshank. Mixed issue, first issues of volumes I and II, later issue of volume III with cancel title-page, "church" plate and "pier" on p.164, half-titles in volumes I and II (not called for in volume III) with advertisements on verso, publisher's imprints trimmed, lacking advertisements at end of vol. I, faint early ownership inscription on title of volume I.