The Illustrated Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

420 pp. Color photographic plates from the Royal Shakespeare Company production, and reproductions of engravings from the Household Edition. "Since opening on the London stage in June 1980, the adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic novel, The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby has made theatrical history. This magnificent volume of The Illustrated Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a very special edition that combines the sights and color of the spectacular Royal Shakespeare Company extravaganza with the text and original art of the novel as it first appeared. It is a facsimile of the "Household Edition" of Nicholas Nickleby, just as it was printed in the nineteenth century. Included are more than 50 original engravings representing the finest tradition of Victorian melodramatic art, that helped to inspire the costume and set design of the lavish stage production."