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1863 Sketches by Boz / Charles Dickens George Cruikshank / First Collected Ed Spine cracked, pages have discoloration, see pictures for details. Later printing of the so-called First Collected Edition (the first issue of series one and series two appeared in three volumes) of Dickens's first book, introducing a introducing a major literary talent to Victorian England. Demy 8vo (220 x 135mm): viii,526pp, with 40 steel-engraved plates by George Cruikshank. In February, 1836, John Macrone published Sketches by Boz, illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People, which came to be known as the "first series." The "second series" appeared in December. When Chapman & Hall obtained copyright of Sketches from Macrone, in 1837, Cruikshank enlarged the plates (save "The Free and Easy," which was discarded) and created thirteen more illustrations. In May, 1839, Chapman & Hall published this "New Edition, Complete," combining both series one and two with all forty of Cruikshank's illustrations. A publisher's note preceding the contents pages informs the reader: "The followings pages contain the earliest productions of their Author . . . Several editions having been exhausted, both [series] are now published together in one volume, uniform with the 'Pickwick Papers' and 'Nicholas Nickleby.'" Satisfaction guaranteed or you can send it back!. Seller Inventory # ABE-1692501176308
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