Dickens, Charles | Second Series of Boz

Property from the Workman Collection

Dickens, Charles 

Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. The Second Series. Complete in One Volume. London: John Macrone, 1837

8vo (200 x 130 mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece and title, ten plates after George Cruikshank, p. vi incorrectly numbered "viii," list of illustrations states "Vauxhall Gardens by Day" twice and omits the final plate "Mr. Minns and his Cousin," 19pp. publisher’s catalogue at rear dated December 1836. Original publisher's speckled pink cloth, covers with central wreath and linear borders in blind, spine lettered in gilt within black frames at head and foot, blind-stamped decorative panels and borders, pattered endpapers; upper joint split, with spine separated from text block. Housed in custom clamshell case.

First edition, second issue. 

REFERENCE:

Eckel pp.11-13; Smith I:1,2; Sadleir 699, 700