DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). Sketches by Boz... New Edition, Complete. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.

8vo (213 x 127 mm). 40 engraved plates (including engraved title-page bound as frontispiece and frontispiece bound facing p.23) by George Cruikshank. (Lacking half-title, some occasional soiling, toning, and offsetting, a few short mostly marginal tears.) Contemporary calf decorated in gilt blind, edges marbled (slight wear to spine ends and extremities, joints starting).  
FIRST OCTAVO ONE-VOLUME EDITION, early issue with title-page lacking comma after "illustrations" and the publisher's address as "186, Strand" (Gimbel) and with first state engraved title-page bearing the publishers' name and address with no date (Eckel, p.19). Issued by Chapman and Hall in May 1839, the present one-volume edition of both series includes 13 additional illustrations (see Smith I:2, p. 16) and, as called for by Eckel, all the plates before p.120 "Greenwich Fair" are without the publisher's name and all after are marked "London, Chapman & Hall, 186, Strand." Eckel, pp. 19-22; Gimbel A7.

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