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Title
Oliver asking for more.
Names
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 (Illustrator)
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 (Author)
Collection

Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1838
Place: London
Publisher: Richard Bentley
Library locations
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
Shelf locator: MEM C955dic (Dickens C. Oliver Twist)
Genres
Prints
Notes
Content: "In three volumes."
Content: Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, blind-stamped and gilt; yellow endpapers. For binding variants, cf. Podeschi. Without publisher's name on spine, "a mark of the earliestissue"--Carr.
Content: Illustrations: 24 prints : etching ; full-page. Signed: George Cruikshank. Final plate in v. 3 shows the "fireside" scene, "usually taken as a feature of early issue"--Podeschi.
Content: List of plates: v. 1, p. [5] (1st group) (not present in earliest issues; cf. Eckel).
Content: Provenance (Arents copy): J.F. Starkey (autograph in v. 1;armorial bookplate in v. 1-3).
Content: Publisher's advertisements: v. 1, p. [2] (1st group), [333-336]; v. 2, p. [2] (1st group); v. 3: p. [1-2] (1st group).
Content: Serialized in Bentley's miscellany, Feb. 1837-Mar. 1839.
Content: Vol. 1: [5], 331, [5] p., [9] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4],307 p., [7] leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 315 p., [8] leaves of plates.
Content: "London: Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street"--T.p. verso, v. 1; colophon, v. 1 and 3. "Whiting,Beaufort House"--T.p. verso, v. 2-3; "Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand"--Colophon, v. 2.
Ownership: J. F. Starkey
Statement of responsibility: by "Boz."
Physical Description
Etchings
Extent: 1 print : etching.
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14866649
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 1e849960-c604-012f-5108-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1792: Creator Born
  • 1838: Issued
  • 1878: Creator Died
  • 2020: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Oliver asking for more." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1838. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90dab749-9df7-11dd-e040-e00a18062aad

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Oliver asking for more." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 27, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90dab749-9df7-11dd-e040-e00a18062aad

APA Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. (1838). Oliver asking for more. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90dab749-9df7-11dd-e040-e00a18062aad

Wikipedia Citation

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Oliver asking for more.