[Dickens (Charles)] "Boz". Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress, vol. 1 & 3 only (of 3), first edition, mixed issue, half-titles, 4pp. publisher's advertisements at end vol. 1, 17 etched plates by George Cruikshank, extra-illustrated with 17 plates by Cruikshank, the same but hand-coloured and tipped-in opposite those called for, vol. 1 frontispiece with marginal water-stain and loose, a few other plates working loose, plates with the usual foxing, the odd spot to text but generally clean, original reddish brown fine-diaper cloth, spines lightly sunned, a few light stains, rubbing to extremities, [Eckel pp.59-60; Smith I, 4] 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1838.*** Something of a bibliographical curiosity, with "Boz" on titles and 'Rose Maylie and Oliver' plate but vol. 3 with "pier" and "pedestal" on p.164 and a half-title substituted for the preliminary Bentley ads.