DICKENS CHARLES Sketches by Boz

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FIRST BOOK, "OCTAVO EDITION" IN ORIGINAL CLOTH DICKENS, CHARLES. Sketches by Boz. Illustrated with 40 etched plates by George Cruikshank, including frontispiece and added vignette title. 8vo, publisher's original blind-stamped brown/purple vertically ribbed cloth, spine gilt-titled, scuffs and moderate fraying; rebacked with original spine laid-down; cream-yellow coated endpapers; scattered minor foxing, offsetting to facing text from plates, few occasional dampstains largely confined to blank margins, pp. 197-98 with small paper loss along margin touching lettering. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839

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first single volume edition. New Edition, Complete. Walter E. Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, Part I, p.16, describes the present edition: "When Chapman and Hall obtained the copyright of Sketches in 1837, they published all of them in twenty monthly parts from November 1837 through June 1839. Cruikshank designed a cover, enlarged the plates (except `The Free and Easy' which was discarded), and created 13 new illustrations for these monthly parts. In May, 1839, Chapman and Hall published these parts complete in one volume with all 40 of Cruikshank's illustrations." Gimbel A7; Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 91-128.