Dickens' bookplate.- Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1 vol. bound in 2, first edition in book form, with bookplate of Charles Dickens, engraved portrait frontispiece by Finden after Maclise, 39 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne ('Phiz'), extra-illustrated with 64 engraved plates, many by T. Onwhyn, lacking half-title, duplicate title bound in vol. 2, list of contents (4pp.) divided between the vol. with portions trimmed and laid down, usual browning to plate margins, a few small nicks or tears to fore-margin near end of vol. 1, 19th century calf, spines gilt and with red and green morocco labels, joints repaired slightly crudely, rubbing to extremities, vol. 1 with one raised band lacking to spine and lower cover detached, g.e., [Eckel pp.64-66; Smith I, 5], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1839.*** Provenance: Albert B. Ashforth Jr. (bookplate to front free endpapers), sold as part of his library, Anderson Galleries, New York, 1930, with Dickens' bookplate present; Mary and Norman Hickman (bookplate to front free endpapers); Oliver Henry Perkins (bookplate to rear pastedowns).