Pages 178179. 23 cm.

Two excerpts from Nicholas Nickleby as speci mens of Dickens graphic limning: The Schoolboys Dormitory and A Flogging Scene. Light greenish blue illustrated wrappers. In thackeray collection [wmt 261]. 323.The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.... With Illustrations by Phiz [pseud.]. London: Chapman and Hall [1838]39. 20 parts in 19 (xvi, 624 p.). Front., plates. 22.5 cm. Monthly numbers, April 1838Oct. 1839. Pale greenish blue illustrated (by Phiz) wrap pers. Adverts. on inside front and inside and outside back wrappers. For inserted and other adverts., there are only a few differences from Hatton and Cleaver. No. iii lacks Joseph Amesburys Patent Supports. No. iv lacks the two adverts. at back. No. viii: the Robert Tyas advert. is lacking; Mechis Catalogue is not designated Part 2, its outside front wrapper does not have a view of a shop front, and the outside of its wrapper is printed in blue. No. xi: the adverts. on inside of wrappers are transposed, and the small yellow slip is lacking. In No. xiii the final page of the Grattan and Gilbert advert. is not numbered. In No. xiv the S. Alderman advert. is on pink paper. No. xvi does not contain the Mary Ashby slip. No. xvii lacks Tyass Illustrated Classics. In No. xviii the Rippon and Burton advert. is headed Catalogue of Articles. Nos. xix & xx lacks final three inserted adverts. 324..... With Illustrations by Phiz. Lon don: Chapman and Hall, 1839. xvi, 624 p. Front., plates. 23.5 cm. Dark olive green fine diaper cloth, blocked in blind. 325.Copy 2. 22 cm. Bound from the parts.

Dark olive green coarse sand cloth, no blocking. Dark red leather label on spine. Sprinkled edges, reddish orange. Inscription on free front endpaper dated 1839. 326.Copy 3. 22 cm. Very dark yellowish green morocco, blocked in gold and blind. Sprinkled edges, red. Inscribed by Dickens on dedication page: Mrs. George Cattermole From hers faithfully Charles Dickens. Tipped in on halftitle is an als of presentation, Dickens to Mrs. Cattermole, 23rd October 1839. Inscription by a later owner on halftitle: Given to me by Mrs. Black, on the death of Mrs. George CattermoleE H Seecombe Trustee for the Pension granted by Lord Beaconsfield, from the Civil List, to Mrs. George Cattermole. Bookplate with a coat of arms and the motto: Paratus et fidelis. 327.Copy 4. 22 cm. Dark grayish olive green morocco, blocked in gold and blind as Copy 3. Rebacked. A.e.g. Inscribed by Dickens on dedication page: Doctor Elliotson From his most faithfully Charles Dickens. Inscription in a different hand below this (with some other words erased): & from John Elliotson to E. Spence Symes 1864. Pasted onto front flyleaf is an als of presentation, Dickens to Doctor Elliotson, October 23rd 1839. Bookplates of Jerome Kern and Barton Currie. 328.. By Charles Dickens, (Boz.).... With Numerous Illustrations by Phiz. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, Successors to Carey & Co., 1839. viii, [13]403 p. Plates. 25.5 cm. The plates are engraved by J. Yeager.