The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2 volumes in 1)

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. Very Good. circa 1894. Reprint. Hardcover. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt design on spine show light wear a couple of tiny tears head and tail of spine, front hinge started but still solid. Previous owner's name on FFEP previous store stamp dated 1894 on front & back pastedown.; A bright solid, book. Both volumes contained in one book. Undated except for store sticker - a very attractive book. Frontispiece with tissue guard, a number of B&W plates. ; Works of Charles Dickens; B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 464 + 460 pages; "Left penniless by the death of his improvident father, young Nicholas Nickleby assumes responsibility for his mother and sister and seeks help from his Scrooge-like Uncle Ralph. Instantly disliking Nicholas, Ralph sends him to teach in a school run by the stupidly sadistic Wackford Squeers. Nicholas decides to escape, taking with him the orphan Smike, one of Squeers’s most abused young charges, and the two embark on a series of adventurous encounters with an array of humanity’s worst and best—greedy fools, corrupt lechers, cheery innocents, and selfless benefactors." .