Sketches By Boz..
Bound in contemporary half morocco; spine in compartments with raised bands, decorated gilt. Patterned endpapers. All edges gilt. The plates are clean with occasional foxing, mostly confined to extreme margins. otherwise a fine clean copy.
£400.00
Details
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION OF BOZ.
Publisher
Chapman and Hall, 186. Strand.,
Place
London
Date
1839
Synopsis
Illustrative of every-day life and every-day people. with forty illustrations by george cruikshank. new edition, complete.
Item Description
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. viii + 526 pp. Lacking the half title, discarded by binder.
Illustrations
Illustrated by [40] engraved plates, including engraved title and frontispiece.
Notes
'The following pages contain the earliest productions of their Author, written from time to time to meet the exigencies of a Newspaper or a Magazine. They were originally published in two series; the first in two volumes [1836-37], and the second in one [1837]. Several editions having been exhausted, both are now published together in one volume, uniform with the Pickwick Papers, and Nicholas Nickleby.' (Preface). The Sketches were the first published work by Charles Dickens.
[Stock No. 23313]
Subjects
19th Century • Dickens • English • First Edition • Lit. Fiction • Literature