Dickens (Charles) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM,  half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece by Daniel Maclise in first state with imprint, 39 engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz), some light staining and browning to frontispiece and plates, bookplates, publisher's first state olive green cloth, with boards and spine ruled in blind, spine lettered in gilt, little rubbed and bumped, upper joint repaired, 8vo, Chapman & Hall, 1839. *** Before its book publication on October 23, 1839, 'Nicholas Nickleby' was issued in twenty parts, published serially in nineteen monthly installments from April 1839 - October 1839. The William Maryon-Kenyon Starling-Self copy, with three bookplates on paste-down.