Lot 248
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[Dickens, Charles]
Auction: 4 February 2009 at 11:00 GMT
£650
Description
Sketches by "Boz", illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people [First series]. London: John Macrone, 1836. First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, 16 wood-engraved plates by George Cruikshank, pale yellow coated endpapers, original olive-green embossed leaf-pattern cloth, spines with decorative shield and lettering in gilt, slipcase, lacking protective tissue volume I, plates discoloured, some occasional spotting, recased and rebacked, preserving entire original backstrip volume I and upper two-thirds only volume II (2)
Footnote
Provenance: Lambert, contemporary inscription.
Note: Smith I:I; Eckel p. 11. The first edition of the first work by dickens to appear in book form.