Description:
Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, First Edition in Book Form, Extra-illustrated. London: Chapman & Hall, 1839. Octavo, portrait frontispiece by Daniel Maclise, thirty-nine full page illustrations by Phiz and forty additional hand-colored plates by Thomas Onwhyn signed with his pseudonym, Peter Palette; bound in full calf with the original cloth board and spine coverings bound in at the end, 8 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.
Estimate $600-800
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Thomas Onwhyn, Peter Palette, LondonJohn Dorfman
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