Sketches by "Boz." Illustrative of Every-Day-Life and Every-Day-People

  • Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1855
By Charles Dickens; George Cruikshank [illus.]
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1855. Very Good. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, ca. 1855. Later Edition, part of publisher's uniform edition set of Dickens' works. Octavo. 268 pages. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 19 additional black and white plates by Cruikshank, complete. Brown cloth with gilt decoration to spine. All edges speckled.

Boards worn with exposure to extremities and some loss to spine ends. Patch of white staining to bottom of spine. Binding is sound. Preliminaries toned. Ownership stamp to front free endpaper. Bookplate of "John W. Cooper," presumably not the ventriloquist, to early leaf. Pages are lightly spotted along margins, but otherwise unmarked.

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