Dickens, Sketches of Young Couples, 1840, first edition

[DICKENS, CHARLES]

Sketches of Young Couples; with an Urgent Remonstrance to the Gentlemen of England...on the present alarming crisis... London: Chapman and Hall, 1840

8vo (158 x 101 mm.), first edition, frontispiece and five engraved plates by Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz"), 4pp. of advertisements at the end, original pictorial blue-green paper boards, preserved in green cloth case and quarter green morocco slipcase, minor spotting, backstrip defective, upper hinge partially split, some wear and slight staining to covers

REFERENCE:

Eckel p.106

PROVENANCE:

George Prideaux, armorial stamp; the American book collector and publisher Herschel V. Jones (1861-1928), green morocco book-label