Sketches By Boz. Illustrative Of Every-Day Life, And Every-Day People. Dickens Charles.

Complete in three volumes, the First Series here in its third edition in two volumes, the Second Series in one volume in first edition. Octavo (19 x 12cm). Vol. I, pp. [2],vi,307, 8 plates; Vol. II, pp. [iv],302, 8 plates; Vol. III, pp. [4],vi,377, 10 plates. Small chip to outer-margin of the final leaf, third volume. Without publisher's adverts, which are frequently removed in bound copies. The etched plates by George Cruikshank, which are nearly all toned, particularily in the outer magins. Bound in later 19th C. half red morocco, gilt, aeg, with marbled sides and endpapers, rubbed, head of first spine lighty chipped, but the whole quite sound. With the engraved armorial bookplate of William Hulme, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme & Sir. W. Hesketh Lever. Vg. [Smith 1,2; Darton 132; Gimbel A3, A4; CBEL IV, 1190; Cohn 232,233]