Dickens, Charles. SUNDAY UNDER THREE HEADS…BY TIMOTHY SPARKS. London: Chapman and Hall, 1836. 6.5" x 4". Etched frontispiece and 2 plates after Hablot K. Browne. Title with woodcut "heads" and the same appears on the front wrappers. Original paper boards, backed in modern adhesive cloth, front board detached and chipping, rear wrapper with hinge 1/2 split, pastedown with old family photograph laid on, blank and half-title with scattered foxing, repair along gutter of title and frontis, a couple of short closed marginal tears, a few instances of very small corner chips to last few pages, and some rounding of corners, contents quite clean overall. ********************************************* First Edition. "Dickens found time in the midst of his work on Pickwick to write his views on the freedom of the Sabbath for the poor man and give them form in a printed booklet" (Eckel, p. 102). Both works contain depictions of cricket. Dickens refers to the sight of a "very animated game of cricket' in the last part of his pamphlet. The famous cricket plate shows not the game itself but an old man coaching a "young fellow" who appears to be more interested in the man's grand-daughter than the game. Dickens not only argued for the preservation of popular recreations but for the opening of museums and art galleries on Sundays. [Eckel pp.102-103; Kitton p.61: "excessively scarce"]