Dickens, Charles | A fine copy of Dickens' first book in an apparently variant form

Property from the Workman Collection

Dickens, Charles

Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. [First Series]. London: John Macrone, 1836

2 vols., 12mo (198 x 120 mm). Title to to each volume, 16 plates by George Cruikshank, with those slated as frontispieces bound facing relevant pages; a few stray spots. Original publisher's dark olive-green embossed leaf-patterned cloth, spines gilt with decorative shield enclosing lettering, yellow endpapers. Housed in custom clamshell case. 

First edition, a fine copy of Dickens' first book in an apparently variant form. 

"It is an irrefutable fact that the book first published by an author who subsequently attained great eminence is the most difficult of acquirement in good condition. This is acutely true of Dickens' first book" (Eckel, p.11).

REFERENCE:

Smith I:1; Eckel 11-13; Sadleir I:699