1872 Rare Edition - The Adventures of OLIVER TWIST by Charles Dickens illustrated by James Mahony.

 

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Author: Charles Dickens. (James Mahony, illustrator).
Title: The Adventures of Oliver Twist.
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1872. 
Language: Text in English.
Size: 10 " X 7.5 ".
Pages: 171 pages + (4) publisher's catalog.
Binding: Attractive and very good decorated full cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining  -  as shown)
Illustrations: Illustrated with 28 beautiful illustrations by James Mahoney.

The book: Rare and attractive 19th-century Household Edition of The Adventures of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, nicely illustrated by James Mahoney.

The author: Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th-century critics and scholars had recognized him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.

The illustrator: James Mahony or Mahoney (1810–1879) was a leading nineteenth-century Irish artist and engraver. Between 1866 and 1877, he was working as a freelance illustrator for the Illustrated London News. He prepared illustrations, too, for other journals, newspapers, and books including this edition of the works of Charles Dickens.