"Please, sir, may I have some more please?" Charles Dickens 1838 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz." London: Richard Bentley 1838. First edition, first issue, of the first English novel with a child hero. This first issue has the "Fireside" plate at p. 312 in volume 3 and authorship ascribed to "Boz" on each title page. This work began as a serial in Bentley's Miscellany in February 1837 but its publication in three volumes as here precedes its completion in the magazine which was not until March 1839. The decision to publish in book form first caused Cruikshank to complete his illustrations in some haste. Dickens did not have time to review them until the eve of publication and he objected to the "Fireside" plate which depicted Oliver at Rose Maylie's knee with Harry and old Mrs. Maylie all gathered around the living-room fire. Cruikshank's revised illustration had the same title ("Rose Maylie and Oliver") but showed Rose and Oliver standing before Oliver's mother's church memorial. This later plate was used to illustrate Oliver Twist as it appeared in Bentley's Miscellany and later issues of the book. Carter, p. 107; Eckel, p. 59-60; Sadleir 696; Smith I: 4. Three volumes, 12mo (188 x 117mm). Half-titles in volumes one and two, four-page publisher's advertisements in volume one. Etched frontispiece in each volume and 21 plates after George Cruikshank (some foxing/darkening, chiefly at ends and plates). Contemporary half calf (rebacked to style, light wear to edges). Provenance : Reverend James Williams (contemporary ownership inscriptions to each volume on flyleaf) – Graham R. Pinkett (modern bookplates covering earlier ones).
"Please, sir, may I have some more please?" Charles Dickens 1838 DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz." London: Richard Bentley 1838. First edition, first issue, of the first English novel with a child hero. This first issue has the "Fireside" plate at p. 312 in volume 3 and authorship ascribed to "Boz" on each title page. This work began as a serial in Bentley's Miscellany in February 1837 but its publication in three volumes as here precedes its completion in the magazine which was not until March 1839. The decision to publish in book form first caused Cruikshank to complete his illustrations in some haste. Dickens did not have time to review them until the eve of publication and he objected to the "Fireside" plate which depicted Oliver at Rose Maylie's knee with Harry and old Mrs. Maylie all gathered around the living-room fire. Cruikshank's revised illustration had the same title ("Rose Maylie and Oliver") but showed Rose and Oliver standing before Oliver's mother's church memorial. This later plate was used to illustrate Oliver Twist as it appeared in Bentley's Miscellany and later issues of the book. Carter, p. 107; Eckel, p. 59-60; Sadleir 696; Smith I: 4. Three volumes, 12mo (188 x 117mm). Half-titles in volumes one and two, four-page publisher's advertisements in volume one. Etched frontispiece in each volume and 21 plates after George Cruikshank (some foxing/darkening, chiefly at ends and plates). Contemporary half calf (rebacked to style, light wear to edges). Provenance : Reverend James Williams (contemporary ownership inscriptions to each volume on flyleaf) – Graham R. Pinkett (modern bookplates covering earlier ones).
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