Hardcover
1866 · London
by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman and Hall, 1866. Hardcover. Very good. Published under the pen-name "Boz", Dickens' first book Sketches by Boz (1836) heralded an exciting new voice in English literature. This richly varied collection of observation, fancy and fiction shows the London he knew so intimately at its best and worst - its streets, theatres, inns, pawnshops, law courts, prisons, omnibuses, and the river Thames - in honest and visionary descriptions of everyday life and people. Octavo: xiv, 475 p. with illustrations by George Cruikshank. In a one-half green morocco over green cloth binding, with decorative gilt stamping, five raised bands, and marbled endpapers. The text is clean, with just a hint of toning. Light rubbing to the corners and tips; else very good or better. (Inventory #: 77160)