Dickens (Charles) Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People, 2 vol., first edition, frontispieces and 14 engraved plates by George Cruikshank, occasional spotting, mostly light and marginal, plates a little browned as usual, front free endpaper to vol.1 trimmed by 1" leaving following f. with resultant browning, newspaper clipping loosely inserted with ownership inscription to this same f., recased, with later endpapers somewhat crudely renewed with white tape reinforcing hinge on vol.1, vol.2 hinge broken, original dark green leaf-patterned cloth, repairs along joints, spine ends and extremities a little rubbed, 8vo, John Macrone, 1836.

⁂ Dickens' very first book.

This copy with the date on the preface reading 'February, 1836' and with almost every internal flaw called for by Smith in both volumes except five in volume I (1 is not spaced apart in p.100; "o" is not missing in "thought" on p.107; the period is present on p.174; 'r' not missing on p.258; and plate has imprint on p.329).