the life and adventures of nicholas nickleby

For the book form, clean sheets were printed without bearing these holes. Copies bound from the parts, as opposed to book-form copies, can be distinguished by the presence of stab-holes in the gutter (as here) from the unstitching of the parts from their wrappers. It is worth noting that for an owner of the parts to have their parts bound was much cheaper than to buy a copy of the new book-form issue - to purchase a book-form copy in half morocco would cost the purchaser 1, 4s., 6d., four times as much as to bind up their parts. They also made available (and advertised as such with an inset included with the final instalment of the part issue) their binding services, for the same three bindings, for owners of the parts: cloth at 1s., 6d., half morocco at 4s. Upon the completion of the novel in monthly parts, the novel was issued by the publishers in book form, in three binding choices: in cloth, in half morocco with marble edges, and in full morocco with gilt edges. Copies bound from the parts, as opposed to As with its predecessor, the novel met with great public enthusiasm, which has continued unabated: Dickens's biographer Peter Ackroyd stated that the novel 'has some title to being the funniest novel Dickens ever wrote it is perhaps the funniest novel in the English language' (Ackroyd, Dickens, pp. To secure Nickleby Chapman and Hall offered Dickens 150 a part, a sum ten times greater than that which he had received for Pickwick.

Nicholas Nickleby followed the phenomenal success which Dickens reached with the Pickwick Papers. First edition, in the publisher's deluxe binding of half morocco, bound from the original monthly parts with the stab-holes visible.

The life and adventures of nicholas nickleby