Dickens, Sketches by Boz, 1836, second edition with additional preface

DICKENS, CHARLES

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

12mo (198 x 120mm.), 2 volumes, second edition, etched frontispieces and 14 plates by George Cruikshank, original publisher's dark olive-green speckled cloth, covers with large embossed arabesque, spines gilt with decoratve shield enclosing lettering, pale yellow endpapers, occasional light spotting, previous owner's inscription on title-page, endpapers slightly ink-stained, binding slightly bumped at extremities 

An extremely good copy of the second edition with the additional Preface, dated 1st August 1836.

REFERENCE:

Smith 1:4; Eckel p.13. 

PROVENANCE:

A.A.Scott, ownership inscription on title-page.