DICKENS, Charles (1812-70). Oliver Twist, London, Richard Bentley, 1838, 3 volumes, 8vo, half titles in vols. I and II [as called for], 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, original plum cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION, second issue. (3)

DICKENS, Charles (1812-70).  Oliver Twist. London: "Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street," [?November] 1838. 3 volumes, 8vo (202 x 122mm). Half titles in volumes I and II [only, as called for], 24 etched plates by George Cruikshank, 4-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end of vol. one, one-page of publisher's advertisements dated "November 1838" at the front of vol. II (some mainly marginal staining to the plates, the title of vol. one separated from the binding at the lower half of the gutter without loss, the same volume with marginal tear to p.159 and two cleanly repaired marginal tears to pp.175 and 177, frontispiece detached from vol. III, occasional light spotting and staining). Original publisher's plum cloth, the covers decorated in blind with arabesque designs, the spines lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers (the spines faded, some fraying and creasing to the spines, corners bumped, somewhat shaken). Provenance: E. Gott, Armley House (old signature on the half of title of vol. one, presumably a relation of Benjamin Gott (1762-1840) of the same address, later known as Gotts Park Mansion, one of the leading figures in textiles in the Industrial Revolution whose factory in Leeds was once the largest in the world). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM (although the book was published before all the periodicals had been issued, the last periodical appearing in March 1839), second issue, released a week after the first following hurried amendments, with the author's name on the title rather than "Boz" (although "Boz" is retained on the publisher's spines), without the subtitle ("... or, The Parish Boy's Progress") on the title page, with the "church" plate replacing the "fireside" plate opposite page 313 in the third volume, and with "pilaster" twice on p.164 of the third volume. Boxall (ed.) 1001 Books (2006) pp.108-109; Eckel The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens (1913) pp.59-62; Gimbel [Podeschi] Dickens and Dickensiana: A Catalogue of the Richard Gimbel Collection (1980) A27; Sadleir XIX Century Fiction (1969) 696; Smith Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth; A Bibliographical Record (1982) I, 4. (3)